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To all Wine Exchangers, Nick Goldschmidt has traveled the wine world.  This New-Zealand born winemaker has worked in New Zealand, Australia, and South America, eventually landing in California where he settled in Healdsberg back in 1990.  He became the assistant, and then chief winemaker at Simi back in the early 1990s back when Simi was […]

To all Wine Exchangers, At this point we will assume everyone has heard the one about how good the 2014 white Burgundies are in general, and how Chablis in particular had a superb harvest.  As a quick note, here’s a summary line from Wine Advocate’s Neal Martin who proclaimed, “…in respect to 2014, they have […]

To all Wine Exchangers, It has truly been quite busy in Q1, what with all the hot releases rolling in from Europe (2015s from France and Italy for the most part and 2014 Bordeaux) after a couple of relatively quiet years on that front.  Here at home we are also experiencing an unparalleled string of […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Now here’s an interesting one. We’ve never seen a deal on the wines of Roberto Voerzio before. He’s simply one of the iconic producers in Piedmont, having crafted a number of the greatest Nebbiolo and Barbera wines ever produced, including probably close to a dozen or so that have rung the […]

To all Wine Exchangers, It would be reasonable to say that we are sometimes a little over cautious.  Not on what we buy, mind you.  Good stuff and good deals are pretty easy for us to spot.  After all we have had lots of practice, and, when the juice is good, we pull the trigger […]

To all Wine Exchangers, What if you had a chance to buy Lafite at 25 cents on the dollar…or less? Romanee Conti? Harlan? I hate to sound too ‘salesman’ but today’s offer is just such an opportunity, Piedmont-style. We’re offering up an incredible wine, from one of the certified, heralded, blue chip Nebbiolo vineyards of […]

To all Wine Exchangers, You’re already familiar with this ‘new’ category in fine wine. The ‘suits’ call it the ‘California Red Blend’ category. Many corporate types have many meetings in board rooms wondering how they can capitalize on the genre and make a bunch of money. ‘California Red Blend’. The term leaves the category wide […]

To all Wine Exchangers, This is not, I repeat, this is not an April Fool’s Joke. Nope, this is a legit deal on a kick-tail bottle of sparkling wine. ‘Cuz hey, you always need a kick-tail go-to sparkler around for the weeknights, weekdays, weekends, patios, friends coming over, celebrating, sushi… So, when we were approached […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Chateau Subilaux is one of thsoe ubiquitous Chateaux, located among hundreds of others, in the basic appellation of Bordeaux. Or is it? This wine is why we taste everything, why we investigate every label.  So many of these wines have their own unique story but its hard to tell it unless there's […]

To all Wine Exchangers, As we said seemingly just the other day, these truly are strange and wonderful times in the wine business.  Change is fermenting, stuff is happening.  We don’t claim to understand all of it, but we do know a crazy deal when we see one.  We saw one not long ago (Jan […]