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To all Wine Exchangers, Yes, after a year off for ‘bad vintage behavior’, the new, improved Chateauneuf Shopper is back! It’s go-time in the Southern Rhone right now as we’re starting to see the first arrivals from the excellent 2015 vintage. Warm, sunny, dry conditions have resulted in a Chateauneuf harvest of fleshy, substantial, juicy, […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Need some ‘Party Pinot’? We’ve got you covered, Winex style. We recently notched a killer deal on the last remaining stocks of one of the finer Pinots from New Zealand, the Trinity Hill Pinot Noir Hawkes Bay 2014, and it won’t last long. In the late 1980’s Winemaker John Hancock met […]

To all Wine Exchangers, You all know how much we love Chablis. Its a love affair that started in the late 1980’s, finding that ‘needle in the haystack’ great bottling from old-school houses like Moreau.  Then in the early 90’s, we were just in time to enjoy riding the Raveneau wave, back when the wines […]

To all Wine Exchangers, In the 1990 vintage there was a Christmas miracle in Saint Emilion… A wine that never received over 90 points from Robert Parker suddenly received the coveted 100 Point score.  The wine world was shocked, as were we at the time.  It was a shock to us all because we couldn’t […]

To all Wine Exchangers, We’ve already gone on about what a championship season its been for Charles Smith.  We’ve featured a ton of his wines, but with good reason.  No one in Washington is making better wines for the money than K Vintners.  I mean, seriously, the dude had not just one, but two wines […]

To all Wine Exchangers, All good things must come to an end, sadly to say.  So it will be soon with the delicious 2015 Beaujolais as we are starting to be presented the 2016s.  Not that we mind the 2016s, a solid, traditional vintage.  In fact, Beaujolais has had a pretty rocking century thus far […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Alright, I can see why Suckling got excited.  This is one gorgeous, inky beverage! Torbreck’s come a long way since the ‘early days’ in the mid-90’s of founder Dave Powell rummaging through old, decrepit Barossa Shiraz vineyards, nursing them back to health, then striking deals with the growers to use the […]

To all Wine Exchangers, “Fans of old-school California Cabernet will want to pay close attention to these new releases from Star Lane. Winemaker Tyler Thomas has done an extraordinary job of bringing out all the best qualities of this Happy Canyon site. Quite simply, I was blown away by what I tasted.” – Antonio Galloni, […]

To all Wine Exchangers, From the ashes, a new beginning. Y’know, a lot of people are asking me about the horrible wine country fires. And they all ask me the same question, “How’s Napa? What about the vineyards?” I tell them, don’t worry about Napa, Napa’s going to be fine.  But what happened in Santa […]

To all Wine Exchangers, “This is an undeniably terrific vintage for Bordeaux…it’s going to be hard for readers to go wrong with these wines. The vintage is loaded with terrific quality…In short, 2015 produced a bevy of ripe, sexy, opulent wines that share similarities to the 2009s with their sumptuous, already accessible personalities.” – Jeb […]