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To all Wine Exchangers, Could it be? Could the New World’s most progressive and exciting new producers of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay actually be from…Chile? Believe it, these guys are learning…and learning fast. They have remarkable vineyards dotted along the long Chilean coastline, with ancient soils, dynamic viticulture and state-of-the-art winemaking overseen by some of […]

To all Wine Exchangers, When we caught wind of this offer we literally said, “Are you kidding?” This one has us babbling a little bit.  We can’t even fathom an explanation for what brought about a situation where we would be able to offer well reviewed, already-moderately-priced selections from one of our favorite Rioja producers, […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Making a dessert wine is one of the most difficult and costly tasks in the wine business.  It all starts with finding a spot where the grapes can ripen slowly to higher degrees of sugar.  The place has to be warm enough to achieve great ripeness, yet be able to do […]

To all Wine Exchangers, 2015 Bordeaux in the house!  The first true harbinger of a vintage that will go down as one of the all-time best on Bordeaux's Right Bank has arrived…if you're curious, and we're sure you are… Yes that’s right, the first 2015 Bordeaux has landed and it’s not just any Bordeaux, it’s […]

To all Wine Exchangers, “United States retail prices for Brunello di Montalcino have risen across the entire appellation. This is a blanket phenomenon that applies to small and big wineries alike. The critical success of the 2010 vintage evidently opened the floodgates to more aggressive sales tactics. No surprise here…Just two years ago, the average […]

To all Wine Exchangers, They say what goes around, comes around but curiously enough, we have no idea why this one came back around.  We actually did a very compelling piece on this wine before…back in September of 2015!  But the story on the Santa Ema Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve Maipo Valley 2012 has not changed, except […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Today we’re offering up the latest release of a relatively new project just now coming into its own…big time. Wine takes time, right? And it always takes more time than you think. Unfortunately, here in California, patience is not a virtue. Everyone wants to see what you’ve done today, every winery […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Yes, it’s another of our ‘we stole some Spanish wine’ stories.  We first ran across the Tahon de Tobelos Rioja Reserva 2009 at a tasting sponsored by a new importing entity that was establishing a beachhead here in SoCal with a new distributor.  This was one of the standouts in what […]

To all Wine Exchangers, A serious Unicorn wine today, as this is a level of deal that even WE don't see very often. It’s hard to explain this one without sounding a little self absorbed.  For that we apologize, but it isn’t meant to be that way.  A lot of times we find things simply based […]

To all Wine Exchangers, In case you missed it the first time (and a lot of you did), we recently scored a re-load of one of our all-time fastest sell-outs.  The 2014 Subilaux was gone in about an hour last time so its a treat to bring back Round Two and fulfill everyone's dreams and wishes… […]