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To all Wine Exchangers, We have followed Jeff Cohn’s career for a long time.  The guy has a pretty serious track record though it is hard to keep track of it all since he has probably made a greater array of outstanding wines in his illustrious career than almost anyone.  Heck, we counted more than […]

To all Wine Exchangers, “When it comes to quality-to-price ratios, no one does it better than proprietor Jean Marc Lafage. Located just outside of Perpignan, this estate has a wealth of old vines and vineyards to pull from, and the addition of a massive new winery is only going to give them even more control. […]

To all Wine Exchangers, OK, here you go, the final round-up from K Vintners…for the time being. Hey, Charles Smith makes a LOT of compelling wines, but he doesn’t make a LOT of any one of them.  We’ve been fortunate enough to get some decent allocations of some of the wines we’ve offered over the […]

To all Wine Exchangers, We must have been one of the first merchants in America to buy, sell and drink the wines of Remelluri.  At that time, we didn’t know just how significant a property it was, we just remember that 1989 being a helluva wine from an entity that we hadn’t seen before, and […]

To all Wine Exchangers, It’s that time of year again.  This is one of the ‘boats’ that we always wait for with bated breath.  If there was a Christmas in September, this would be it. Ganevat Day. Yes, Jean-Francois Ganevat (‘Fan-fan’ to his friends), the undisputed (to us) Cult King of the Jura, has been […]

To all Wine Exchangers, What can one say about the great, yet very humble Denis Durantou?  The guy makes one of the greatest wines of Bordeaux, Pomerol’s Chateau l’Eglise Clinet, a wine that, over the past 15 years, has scored a few 99 and 100-point scores from Robert Parker and James Suckling among others. Short story? The guy knows a […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Y’know, we don’t talk a whole lot about Morellino di Sansano, but there’s a reason. Most of them are just ‘ok’.  This smaller appellation in the southern part of Tuscany is ‘ground zero’ for the Maremma, a breadbasket area of sorts where many producers in Chianti Classico and Montalcino have invested heavily […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Today marks the ex-chateau re-release of the 2010 Les Forts de Latour, which many critics call the best Les Forts ever produced! In 2010, Les Forts de Latour with its 97 point score was only behind its big brother Latour, Lafite, Mouton and Pontet Canet for top honors in Pauillac, beating […]

To all Wine Exchangers, This is why we go to France and taste this stuff. We had ‘boots on the ground’ at this year’s Decouvertes en Vallee du Rhone tastings in the Rhone Valley with the intent to check out the highly anticipated 2015s, but perhaps equally with the intention to get an early bead on […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Your voracious appetites for the absolutely gorgeous Malbec wines from Marcelo Pelleriti must be sated! And sated they shall be, once you get a glass of this glistening Malbec jewel in front of you. For our previous, sold-out offer from Marcelo’s latest project, 1853, we let you know that the vineyard […]