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To all Wine Exchangers, Although Casarena only began in 2007, its winemaking team has a longer history in this region. In addition to enlisting the skills of global winemaking guru, Michel Rolland, both their head winemaker (Bernardo Bossi Bonilla) and other consulting winemaker (Alejandro Sejanovich) worked long stints at Catena Zapata, Argentina's first 'family' of wine. Simply […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Better late than never, right? Yeah, I know, a lot of you like to strike while the iron is hot, collecting all your Wine Spectator Top 100 selections you can get your hands on the day the list comes out. But, as we stated when we wrote our Top 100 piece back […]

To all Wine Exchangers, These truly are strange and wonderful times, though we are at a loss to make sense of some things.  Take one of the most iconic of California labels, Chalone.  For a generation of wine-drinkers, this has been an elite estate, among the most desired labels in the business.  Their Chardonnay has […]

To all Wine Exchangers, These truly are strange and wonderful times, though we are at a loss to make sense of some things.  Take one of the most iconic of California labels, Chalone.  For a generation of wine-drinkers, this has been an elite estate, among the most desired labels in the business.  Their Chardonnay has […]

To all Wine Exchangers, In March of 2015 we offered the 2001 Chateau Malescasse Haut Medoc.  It was an instant sell-out and since we bought all there was, there was no more to be had. We then offered the 2004 Malescasse in December of that same year.  Again…instant sell-out. Hmmm…we may be on to something. We […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Back in June of last year we sent a very special offer on the Antica Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley 2012. You guys responded, we sold out, you drank the wine, and the rest is history. Our offer did not go unnoticed by the powers-that-be. They loved it. Actually, they loved it […]

To all Wine Exchangers, It would be easy to go off on one of our rants about the joys of Rioja.  It’s our ‘desert island’ wine and one of the most versatile reds with food, though plays perfectly well by itself.  One of the key selling points to us has always been about drinkability.  Who […]

To all Wine Exchangers, We’ll keep this one short and sweet. We just scored a remarkable deal on one of the benchmark wines of the Northern Rhone Valley, which in turn did some ‘scoring’ of its own. The house of Delas is on fire right now. Winemaker Jacques Grange can seem to do no wrong, […]

To all Wine Exchangers, OK, sure, Zinfandel is the ‘official state grape’ of California.   But Petite Sirah had to have been high up in the balloting.  At least ‘best grape in a supporting role’ as it is co-planted in many the ‘heritage vineyards’ in the north coast of California as well as having a rich […]

To briefly recap from last time, the production side of the wine industry is better than ever, more people have the tools and the knowledge to make the best wines ever.  There are very few ‘bad’ wines these days that suffer from bacterial, microbial, or other forms of ‘funk’ that hygienic winemaking has mostly eliminated.  […]