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To all Wine Exchangers, Peter Lehmann is one of the vanguard producers in South Australia, with a sterling track record and enviable access to some of the finest, oldest vineyards in the Barossa Valley. Making wines like this that sell for a song is their modus operandi. The first wine Peter Lehmann ever made and […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Usually, the northern Rhone is not synonymous with value. All of those hi-falutin’ Cote Rotie, Hermitage and St. Joseph wines will set you back a pretty penny, especially the good ones. Generally, those patches of real estate are simply too expensive for a small vigneron to de-classify. These guys need to […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Now that the holiday season has passed, our attention turns again to great things to serve on the other 300-some-odd days of the year.  It’s too bad that this particular Pinot Noir didn’t show up earlier in the season.  Undoubtedly there would have been a lot of ‘applications’ for a Pinot […]

  This has become a tradition for us to give everyone an outline of what to expect out of the coming year.  Part of the reasoning is that we have the information because we rely upon this info as part of our yearly business plan seeing as there’s always a limit to the amount of […]

To all Wine Exchangers, We’ve been harping on it for months, watch out for Chile. Here are the next two exhibits that brilliantly illustrate what we’re talking about. And they’re both Sauvignon Blanc. Chile is filled with multiple climatic zones, elevations, soil types, exposures, you name it. As Master of Wine Peter Richards put it, […]

To all Wine Exchangers, There’s an easy way to pitch this.  Heck, it’s a 96-point wine from extremely old vines (85 Years approximately) for under $30.  If this was a California Cabernet that is all we would have to say, except that we can’t.  First off it isn’t Cabernet nor is it from California.  There […]

To all Wine Exchangers, You know, so often we get caught up in telling stories in our daily missives that sometimes we miss some real opportunities to just…sell…wine. There are plenty of ‘opportunities’ that we are guilty of glossing over, maybe because there’s not quite enough of any one particular wine, or its a wine […]

To all Wine Exchangers, In case you haven’t heard, Etna’s a ‘thing’. Who would have ever thought that Nerello Mascalese, an indigenous, never-before-seen grape grown on the side of an active volcano in Sicily, would turn out to produce some of the most compelling wine in the world? Truly, this grape produces a wine that […]

To all Wine Exchangers, How’d you like that 2006 Chesler? For those of you lucky enough to have scored some of that remarkable wine, now you know what we were talking about. Crazy, huh? Anyway, when the 2006 sold out we picked up the phone and dialed Mia and asked if she had any other […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Clearly, we are not above using ‘trickle down’ from a widely-advertised movie campaign.  In brief, we know a lot of people have price parameters, are looking for good value in the bottle, and would prefer if it said Napa Valley on it.  That isn’t our creed, it’s just ‘’the way it […]