Past Offers

To all Wine Exchangers, Boy, can a $15 bottle of wine get any more loved than this one? It seems as if ‘prodigal son’ Alvaro Palacios has finally achieved Rioja nirvana with the sensational Palacios Remondo Rioja Crianza La Montesa 2015. Rioja’s a big place.  Huge, actually, especially when you take in the Rioja Baja […]

To all Wine Exchangers, We started promoting the wines of the Roussillon about a quarter century ago.  At the time, the Rhone Valley was working through some tough years (1991-1997) and the Roussillon wines were given a chance, like their weather, to break through and really ‘shine’ on the international market. Admittedly a lot of […]

To all Wine Exchangers, “The latest releases (from Lismore) are exemplary, especially the Estate Reserve Chardonnay that is, dare I say, almost Corton-Charlemagne-like in style…Is there nothing Samantha cannot do?” – Neal Martin, Vinous Media Y’know, just when you think, like the current state of rock music today, that its all been done, you can […]

To all Wine Exchangers, 100 Points… Sheer perfection… If you were to ask what some of the most memorable bottles of Bordeaux were that I’ve ever tasted, several wines from Margaux’s Chateau Palmer would be at or near the top of my all-time favorites.   It’s an estate that I personally collect and its hard for […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Quick, all you hardcore Cabernet fans, what’s the most prestigious vineyard in the Napa Valley? To-Kalon. What’s the vineyard that has generated more than a dozen 100 point wines in the Napa Valley…and counting? To-Kalon. What’s the vineyard that commands the highest average per bottle retail price in the Napa Valley? (Screaming Eagle and Harlan aside) To-Kalon.  […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Almaviva is crushing it nowadays…literally. The vision that this project, originally a meeting of the minds between Baron Philippe de Rothschild (Mouton Rothschild) and Viña Concha y Toro, has evolved into is a classically Chilean Bordeaux blend, informed and improved by both winemaking cultures.  Chilean Mouton?  Yeah, you could say that. […]

To all Wine Exchangers, The odyssey continues, but the story lines are as interesting now as they were back some three decades ago when we started with Ravenswood, though for entirely different reasons.  Back in the 90s, Ravenswood’s single vineyard wines were iconic.  Pre-interwebs, we used to have ‘Ravenswood Day’ where we would offer up […]

To all Wine Exchangers, There are certainly plenty of folks in the wine business that have their formula for making wine and pretty much do the same thing every year like clockwork.  There are others that produce some quirky things just because they want to without even knowing if those varietals are suited to the […]

To all Wine Exchangers, In my nearly two decades of visiting Bordeaux, I’ve developed incredible relationships with many proprietors.  But the proprietor of today’s offer has been like family since my very first visit. Helene Garcin-Levesque and her family, owners of Barde-Haut, Haut Bergey, Branon, Clos l’Eglise and their new acquisition Chateau Poesia have been […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Miss the Charles Noellat Santenay 1996?  Don’t worry, we got your back, with what may be one of our finest Premier Cru library Burgundy deals yet from… …Les St. Georges.  The finest plot of land in the well-known village of Nuits St. Georges, at the southern end of Burgundy’s Cote de Nuits. […]