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To all Wine Exchangers, “These are fascinating, inspiring wines”-Monica Larner, Wine Advocate Sometimes we wish our ‘geek’ side didn’t get in the way of our business ‘side’.  But when you truly love wine for it’s diversity of expression, it can be tough to pass up something like Ronchi di Cialla.  It would be smarter to […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Here’s the fact. If you were to create a hierarchy of all the wines in the world, Bordeaux’s First Growths would be at the top of the pecking order.  And, of those five First Growths, Chateau Latour, in the opinion of many, reigns supreme. A few years back, Latour’s director, Frederic […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Retasting the 2000 vintage three to four months before bottling provided overwhelming evidence that this is the greatest vintage Bordeaux has ever produced. Remarkably consistent from top to bottom, there has never before been a year where so many exceptional wines were produced. – Robert Parker, 2/27/2002 The 2000s are remarkably […]

To all Wine Exchangers, It’s hard to believe we haven’t talked about this property for a while, especially after they made such an impact when they initially burst onto the scene. Many of you loyal Winex shoppers have undoubtedly dropped bottles of wine from the Barahonda winery in your shopping carts, virtual or not, over […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Probably the one question I get asked the most, besides “What’s your most expensive wine?” and “Got any trips planned soon?” is… “What’s your favorite wine?” Boy, a loaded question if there ever was one. And, I’m gonna be honest, impossible to answer. But, the one thing I can relate to […]

To all Wine Exchangers, For a couple of years now we have been going on about how happening South America has become.  Lots of exciting new faces and proven performers stepping up their game, it’s a real hotbed.  We mentioned it last year, and again at the beginning of January, 2017.  At that time we […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Given the uniformly consistent praise for the 2010 Riojas, we thought it curious that when James Suckling reviewed the Cune Rioja Imperial Reserva 2011 he gave it a whopping 96 points, two points higher than his score for the 2010.  Wow, talk about going against the grain.  The 2010 is an […]

To all Wine Exchangers, If it’s good enough for Haut-Brion it must be great! Seriously though, Chateau Haut-Brion’s reputation precedes itself as one of the world’s most famous wines.  They are the pinnacle of greatness.  A top vintage of Haut Brion will bring tears to your eyes… and give you an experience you’ll never forget. Back […]

To all Wine Exchangers, "…Across the board, these single vineyard bottlings are amongst the most superb wines made in the US today and are built to age long and gracefully in the cellars and only reveal their entire complement of aromatic and flavor complexities in the fullness of time. Stylistically, there really are some similarities […]

To all Wine Exchangers, These are special times in Beaujolais, and we say that not as ‘Johnny-come-latelys’, who have jumped on the now-trendy Beaujolais bandwagon, but as merchants who have been embracing and selling Beaujolais since the late 80s.  Our ‘pitch’ back then was that Beaujolais represented some of the greatest red wine value in […]