Past Offers

To all Wine Exchangers, Miss the St. Damien…again?  Don’t worry, we got your back…again. Here’s a bevy of Ravishing Rhones on this rainy SoCal Wednesday that should certainly get your gander.  All of these in-stock bad boys scored at least 95-points and all hit the shelf for under $50.  Can your Napa Cabernet do that?  […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Deja Vu all over again.  It’s like when 2010 came out after 2009.  You can’t really pick one being better than the other as both vintages are great.  Well, 2015 and 2016 are in that same vein.  It’s hard to pick which is better as it’s just a matter of preference.  […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Welcome to December everyone.  As we close out 2018, we felt it might be apropos to take a look at what may be one of the stories of 2019…. Chardonnay. Chardonnay? Hot? Yes, but not the Chardonnay you think.  We’re not talking about those $100+ ‘drama’ Chardonnays from Sonoma that ring […]

To all Wine Exchangers, The time has come.  While we’ve been setting our sights on vintage gems from the 1990’s and early 2000’s for a couple of years now, we always knew in the back of our minds that one of the greatest vintages of the past century would start to wake up right about…now. The […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Greatest Carmenere ever?  You may be owning it in the next few minutes. It’s no surprise this wine comes from Aurelio Montes.  Aurelio has certainly been one of THE pioneering winemakers in Chile, forging ahead in the vineyard and winery to produce wines that actually deliver on the value promise Chile […]

To all Wine Exchangers, The 2016 vintage in the southern Rhone just keeps on giving, this time in the form of the newest and arguably the best release from one of our personal favorites among the ‘ancient’ houses, Jean Royer.  A former rugby player, Jean-Marie Royer was somewhat late to the wine game because, due […]

To all Wine Exchangers, We have repeatedly stated our love for outstanding sparkling wines.  We would also not be afraid to put forth the statement that there are few people on the planet that are bigger fans of Huet than we are.  But those have always been separate issues..until now. Huet’s ‘petillant’ has been on […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Nick Goldschmidt has traveled the wine world. This New-Zealand born winemaker has worked in New Zealand, Australia, and South America, eventually landing in California where he settled in Healdsburg back in 1990. He became the assistant, and then chief winemaker at Simi back in the early 1990s back when Simi was […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Yes, it’s that time again.  We have done an early-in-the-game offering of the Wine Spectator Top 100 for as long as we have been doing our email outreach program.  This year’s Spectator ‘100’ list followed the more established pattern of years past…a number of the wines were sold out already (some quite […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Believe you me, nothing is finer with the Bird or a Christmas ham than a bright, persistent, classy bottle of Beaujolais! Yes, with absolute certainty one (or more) of these wines will be gracing my holiday table(s) but, with four great vintages in a row, it’s getting really tough to decide. Do I […]