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To all Wine Exchangers, It’s that time again, the bane of all wine merchants…a great vintage in Burgundy.  Wait, what’s wrong with a great Burgundy vintage? Well, nothing.  In fact, if you ask most folks that have been in the wine game for a while, most of them will have a Burgundy experience among their […]

To all Wine Exchangers, We’ve told the story in the past, but it always warrants re-telling. We remember when Peter Sisseck’s Dominio de Pingus wines first walked through our doors in the late-90’s and immediately captured our imaginations and palates. Basically, Peter was doing stuff in the Ribera del Duero that no one had done […]

To all Wine Exchangers, As many of you will recall, one of our mantras is to always be aware of the ‘little’ wines from elite producers. The idea is that the best winemakers are considered the best because they continuously succeed.  That success is largely due to their attention to detail and commitment to excellence.  […]

To all Wine Exchangers, With all the talk these days about Sicily's Etna area 'blowing up' over the last decade, we sometimes lose track of the other areas that put Sicily on the wine map in the first place.   Today we're talking Menfi, the original home base for the Planeta winery and vineyards. It […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Don’t look now but it appears as if the top value wines from one of Bordeaux’s all-time vintages are starting to disappear. Take today’s offer as a prime example. You would think there would still be a sea of both of these wines from 2005 still in the market, both are […]

To all Wine Exchangers, If you have ever driven on Alamo Pintado Road between Solvang and Los Olivos, you pass right by Blackjack Ranch Vineyards.  If the name strikes you as a little curious, proprietor Roger Wisted essentially made his bones by inventing a game called ‘California Aces’, a variation on traditional Blackjack that essentially […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Back in the 1990s, after he had created a stronghold in California with his multiple brands entrenched in the American marketplace place, the ever-ambitious, late Jess Jackson decided to step outside of the American border for his next projects.  We weren’t privy to his long term plan, but we do know […]

To all Wine Exchangers, It seems like only yesterday (it was actually the mid-90s) that we were invited to a very low-keyed tasting that a supplier was hosting.  That supplier, who pioneered Oregon wines in the late 80s, long before they really took hold in the broad market, had just come back from a trip […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Well, this was going to go tomorrow, but since the Abremundos disappeared in 30 seconds we thought, what the hey… There are certainly times when wine offers are ‘cut and dried’.  Somebody gave it a big review, it’s super hard to find, or there is some other compelling reason to connect […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Marcelo Pelleriti is killing it right now. Sourcing the best vineyards in the best locales in Argentina, Marcelo is using his experience learned from famed French enologist Michel Rolland as well as his own experience running things at Pomerol’s Chateau Le Gay and La Violette, to turn the Argentine wine world […]