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To all Wine Exchangers, Ah, ‘Tis the season.  And, with the Holidays coming you and I both know it’s never too early to put your Champagne house in order. And, we have just the wine for you! The house of Pommery is one of Champagne’s ‘gold standard’ properties.  Founded in Reims in 1856, Pommery has […]

To all Wine Exchangers, It is probably a good idea to mention that we aren’t given to excess.  Every deal isn’t the best deal of our lives, every wine isn’t the greatest ever made, and every vintage isn’t the ‘vintage of the century’.  We are well aware of the hyperbole some merchants use to sell […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Bordeaux… the land of many of the world’s top estates.  Yet, in this land of over 10,000 Chateaux, there are only a chosen few that are household names we all recognize.  But as customers of the Exchange, you know it’s our mission to dig a little deeper.  We travel, we fly, we […]

To all Wine Exchangers, In the wine business, looking backward never gets ‘old’. Who doesn’t like to have something direct form the source, with bottle age, for the same price at the current releases? Answer? No one. Except, maybe, Steve Martin in The Jerk, “Bring us some fresh wine! The freshest you got!” With all […]

To all Wine Exchangers, They say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks.  But when the ‘old tricks’ are like this Cabernet, why would you want to?  The story all starts with one of the Napa Valley’s most iconic sites, the Herb Lamb Vineyard. For over a decade this vineyard was the source of […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Aglianico is, essentially, the Nebbiolo of the south.  Those of you enamored by the perfume, structure and longevity of the wines from Piedmont’s Barolo and Barbaresco areas should definitely be cozying up with this, the most important grape of Italy’s Campania region. This is most certainly the best grape going in […]

To all Wine Exchangers, When we first tasted Qupe’s varietally designated Central Coast Syrah back in the early 80s, we had no reference point.  It was a totally new idea in California wine.  A lot has happened since that time.  It came to pass that everyone began making Syrah because California (and Washington for that matter) […]

To all Wine Exchangers, When you do this wine thing professionally every day, it’s a good idea not to play favorites. You can drink the same wine every night as a consumer if you want to.  But as a wine merchant, part of the fun is the variety. Besides, even the best labels don’t necessarily […]

To all Wine Exchangers, If I’m not mistaken, we here at the Exchange have written up Les Grands Marechaux for both e-mail offerings and the Stock Report more than any other Bordeaux estate.  Begs the question that with over 10,000 estates in the Bordeaux area…why?  With all the options out there, the reason is simple… this estate […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Man, how much wine from Ben Glaetzer have we sold over the last 20 years? Ben, and before Ben, Ben’s dad Colin, set the bar for Barossa Valley reds starting in the late-1990’s.  Ben, the kid, had his dad’s winemaking and vineyard chops as well as his old man’s connections, the […]