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To all Wine Exchangers, Do you remember the 2010 Croix de Beausejour, Beausejour Duffau’s second label?  It was one of those no-brainer finds that we sold out of lickety-split.  Well, the same team that made Beau-Duffau’s second wine also makes Larcis Ducasse and their second wine Murmure de Larcis Ducasse.  With only about 500 cases produced, we’re […]

To all Wine Exchangers, The better ‘07s are beautiful, sleek Napa Valley examples with outstanding density, glorious fruit and excellent equilibrium. Yes, the wines are ripe and powerful, but as they absorb their baby fat they are gaining in shape and definition. And they are evolving very slowly. I seldom make gross generalizations about vintage […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Who’s hotter in the world of California wine than Morgan Twain-Peterson? Following in the old-vine-loving footsteps of his dad, Joel Peterson, founder of Ravenswood, has certainly served him well. His Bedrock label is one of the toughest ‘gets’ out there right now. Seems like people dig on soulful wines produced with […]

To all Wine Exchangers, I was going to do some updated research for today’s piece on one of our favorite Spanish producers, Casa Castillo, but turns out it wasn’t going to happen. It seems things run a bit more slowly down in Jumilla then they do here in SoCal. The winery’s ‘updated’ technical sheets on […]

To all Wine Exchangers, “Owner Andrea Franchetti and his team turned in Sicily’s (and one Italy’s) best wine performances of the year. Simply put, it’s nearly impossible this year to pick a favorite red wine from Passopisciaro’s many offerings, with one gorgeous, ageworthy wine after another made from the single contrada and a truly memorable […]

To all Wine Exchangers, “The hype continues about the 2015 German Rieslings, especially from the Nahe and Mosel Valleys. Already in January 2016, the Mosel producers were much more excited to show me their 2015s than they were to show me their 2014s. A few weeks later, the first importers shouted out about the tremendous […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Today's offer is indeed a true fine, from one of the toughest places to find one! Do you remember the 2010 Feytit-Lagrave Pomerol? It was a tiny production wine from Pomerol that we sold out of in a nano-second about a year ago. Well, we recently discovered another uber-small Pomerol producer […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Rancho Santa Rosa was one of vintner Bill Foley's first purchases back in 1998.  At that time he could already sense just how relevant this quite area tucked between the towns of Solvang/Buellton and the Pacific Ocean was going to be.  He was right, just a couple of years later, this […]

To all Wine Exchangers, You saw the lead just now. This one’s pretty simple. Today we’re offering the highest-scoring, lowest-priced Brunello of the 2012 vintage from Wine Spectator. If you’re a deal-chaser, this is the perfect wine. If you’re only looking for the absolute best the vintage has to offer, this is the perfect wine. […]

To all Wine Exchangers, “Easily one of the top estates in the Languedoc (if not southern France), Chateau Puech-Haut…with consulting help from Philippe Cambie… produce(s) a number of cuvees, with their entry level efforts representing superb values, and their top cuvees being able to stand toe to toe with the greatest wines in the world.”  […]