Past Offers

To all Wine Exchangers, It wasn’t that long ago that we had to explain where the Roussillon was before talking about the wines themselves.  This rugged area of old vines and slate hillsides has always had the potential for great wine.  But it’s only been a short time since the winemaking talent and vision was […]

To all Wine Exchangers, What can we say about 2009 Bordeaux that hasn’t already been said (tasted)?  The wines are so absolutely delicious and so drinkable at such a young age.  As Pontet Canet’s Alfred Tesseron mentioned to us…2009 is and always will be one of Bordeaux’s “special” vintages.  We concur and todays offer fits […]

To all Wine Exchangers, After 27 years importing wine, Importer/winemaker/proprietor Dan Kravitz took the plunge a few years back and purchased 13.5 acres of vineyard land in Roussillon. Named Cabirau after the vineyard’s original designation, the domaine lies on a hill below the famed Cathar fortress of Queribus. Planted to Grenache, it includes a prized […]

To all Wine Exchangers, The name of this property, Cascina Bruciata, finds it origins back in 1880, when the farm was set on fire by jealous local farmers, an event for which it would subsequently be named – Bruciata in Italian means “burned”. The Balbo family’s neighbors were already ‘burning’ with jealousy. The original owner, […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Just when you think you are dialed in to a particular genre, something comes along to shake up those notions. Take Muscadet, for example.  Most folks will tell you it’s a brisk, utilitarian beverage that is a mere facilitator for chilled shellfish or oysters.  Lean, crisp, with a little minerality and […]

To all Wine Exchangers, When it came time to ‘belly up to the booth’ at Vinisud we were hoping to see some fireworks.  We got what we were looking for, but from three completely out-of-the-blue sources. Jon and Elizabeth Bowen’s Ste. Croix Estate was literally our first stop during our last trip to the Vinisud […]

To all Wine Exchangers, It’s time to go Big Cab Hunting. This is one of the very few opportunities you have to hunt for Cabernets that are big on press and small on availability. We get bits and pieces of a few very special things that generally sell out before we get the chance to […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Today we’re going to take you on a journey to a place where ‘rules’ don’t apply, a place where grape growing and winemaking inexplicably lead to something else different altogether, a new wine, a new concept. This is, the Super Rosso di Montalcino Zone. It started two weeks ago. I tasted […]

To all Wine Exchangers, We have long been proponents of the upper levels of Beaujolais, the Crus, and have presented them vigorously over the years as some of the best and most versatile red wine values on the planet.  The same could be said of importer Kermit Lynch who has been bringing in some of […]

To all Wine Exchangers, They went and did it again. But, when we visited the winery in May of last year and tasted the ‘new’ stuff coming down the pike, we already knew it. "Quite simply, these are some of the finest Riojas that can grace your cellar: complex, refined, classic but without compromising fruit […]