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To all Wine Exchangers, We’ve always dug Pink wines from Bordeaux. We broke into the Bordeaux Rosé market with the 2003 Le Rosé de Pavie and made it our front page wine in July of 2004.  Then, Larcis Ducasse and Pavie Macquin got into the Rosé business with the 2005 vintage, we jumped in and […]

To all Wine Exchangers, A 95 Point Bordeaux for under $30 dollars?  Are you kidding me?  Nope… it’s true and it’s not just any Bordeaux.  Sociando Mallet is one of the most important estates in the Haut-Medoc outside of the commune appellations like Margaux, Pauillac, and Saint Julien.  Sociando’s only ‘rivals’ in this category may […]

To all Wine Exchangers, "Quite simply, these are some of the finest Riojas that can grace your cellar: complex, refined, classic but without compromising fruit intensity and to reiterate: wines that speak about where they come from." – Luis Gutierrez, The Wine Advocate We can’t think of a better endorsement for La Rioja Alta than the […]

To all Wine Exchangers, When it rains, it pours. Opportunity abounds in a market where there’s, literally, too much good stuff.  Most of the time it’s not the wine’s fault, just a matter of wrong wine at the wrong time. Though, personally, we think Chateau Vaudieu is pretty much the right wine all the time, […]

To all Wine Exchangers, A few months back we attended a small, very focused tasting put on by a respected importer.  The ‘pitch’ was basically come and taste some of the elite labels from Italy (and to a much lesser extent, Spain) in our book.  There is a certain amount of politics involved in attending […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Martin Ray, the wine brand operating under the name of one of California’s early pioneer winery owners, has built itself a serious business with meticulous winemaking and careful sourcing of fruit.  To say that we’ve been impressed with what they’re producing and the prices they’re producing at would be a huge […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Not to be too redundent, but die Uhr tickt!  Yes the clock is ticking on one of the best vintages in Germany in the last quarter century.  We’ve been tasting Germans for a long time and a vintage like this comes along about every 10-15 years.  As we have said (early […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Today we’re offering up a familiar face; a property which represents a qualitative pinnacle in its respective appellation and delivers completely absurd quality for the money. We’ve sold countless bottles of the 2001, 2009 & 2010 iterations of this wine and today we’re back with the next sensational steal from this […]

To all Wine Exchangers, I love me a fine Vino Nobile di Montepulciano. Problem is, there aren’t too many of them to love! This appellation in eastern Tuscany always kerflummoxes me. It would seem there are all the elements in place to produce consistently great wine but…alas…it has not been the case. Vino Nobile is […]

To all Wine Exchangers, “Readers who want to know why the 2014 vintage is magical for Pinot Noir will want to check out these wines from Knez.” – Antonio Galloni, Vinous Media Today’s offer starts (and ends) with Peter Knez, a math genius who did quite well designing things like algorithms used by Wall Street […]