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The times they are a-changin’. It would be easy to blame it on global warming, but a lot of other things have gone on in this part of the world since the region first started getting attention back in the 1980s. The Santa Ynez Valley has established itself as an important source of Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and Rhone

Scattered Peaks is a super-premium spin on Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon sourced from a mix of Napa’s finest vineyards. The wine is elegantly crafted by wine industry veteran Derek Benham and legendary Napa Valley winemaker, Joel Aiken. Joel spent 27-years making the world-famous red wines at Rutherford’s legendary Beaulieu Vineyards, including several of the finest BV Georges de Latour Reserves

We’ll keep the broader narrative short as we have been broadcasting this message for something like three decades. Nobody brings the value ‘drama’ like the Spaniards, and that’s true for every conceivable price level. Where else do you get reserve level wines, with some bottle age, for less money than you would pay for some homogenized domestic corporate

Can you believe it? Thanksgiving this week. Wow. And crazy to think how folks will be sharing it this year. Zoom Thanksgiving with Grandma? Yup, may be. Regardless, it’ll be different. Next year? With the recent vaccine news it looks like things next holiday will be back to ‘normal’, whatever that new normal may be. In the meantime, drink something

To all Wine Exchangers, We sold Joel Gott’s first vintage back in the mid-90’s. At that time, he was a ‘Zin guy’, making great Zinfandel from Amador County while working with his ‘burger joint’ in Napa, Taylor’s Refresher. A lot has changed. Taylor’s isn’t Taylor’s anymore, it’s Gott’s Roadside, and the Joel Gott label has ‘grown up’ over the last 20 years

Sometimes it is tough pushing the rock uphill. Change is a word that does not exist in most places of Bordeaux. For Lilian Ladouys, a beautiful chateau in St Estephe, it’s hard to overcome some of the short comings of the estate’s early years. On the Right Bank, properties like Ausone, Pavie, Angelus and Clos Fourtet among

To all Wine Exchangers, The Opus One 2017 is here and it’s once again the ultimate gift! Remember, half of Opus One comes from their two choice parcels in the To Kalon Vineyard. The other half is, of course, their vineyard across the street that surrounds the winery in Oakville. Serious dirt for a serious wine. Their wine is made in the exact same

The Féret guide was on to something as this estate is incredibly unique for the area. Why you ask? Well in the land of Cabernet Sauvignon, this property is 75% Merlot but get this…combined with a shockingly high 25% Petit Verdot and the oenology team of Michel Rolland and Vincent Cachau behind the winemaking. And it’s that Petit Verdot that

Does Chardonnay have to be from California or France in order for it to be great? Obviously, one would think the answer is no, based on the fact that the world is a very big place and Chardonnay can grow just about anywhere. But you’d be shocked how hard it is to convince somebody that someplace like Australia can make