Past Offers

To all Wine Exchangers, I know and understand that, us being from the northern hemisphere and all, we’re slightly biased towards the Chardonnays from our ‘neck of the woods’.  Who’s to argue that the finest Chardonnay on the planet comes from France and California, right?  Makes our job of picking out a top-flight example easy…perhaps […]

To all Wine Exchangers, There is a confluence of stories here.  The first is our soft spot for this crisp, expressive Galician white.  Some of the first examples we tasted early on in our Spanish immersion really set the tone.  The best examples, typically from the Rias Baixas (ree-as by-shas) were bright and lifted, with […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Chateau Les Grands Chenes… If you’ve been following us over the years, you know that this estate has been an overachiever since the late 1990’s when Bernard Magrez, owner of Chateau Pape Clement among other Bordeaux estates bought the property. When a guy like Bernard puts his name on a bottle, […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Man, Alain Jaume is on fire! I don’t remember tasting a more impressive run of wines, from the winery’s most basic Cotes du Rhone, up to their 100-point Chateauneuf Vieilles Vignes, in my life.  And to come out on top in the midst of one of the Southern Rhone’s greatest vintages […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Welcome to Part II of Ojai’s Bien Nacido Chronicles.  It’s truly been a championship season for the Ojai guys with regards to the wines they’ve recently produce from this special site.  Today, we continue with the remarkable Ojai Vineyard Pinot Noir Bien Nacido Vineyard 2016 and Ojai Vineyard Syrah Bien Nacido […]

To all Wine Exchangers, It’s time.  We’ve been waiting to unleash this little nugget of Sangiovese perfection upon you and we feel the time for this wine is now. We’ll start by stating the problem.  How do you talk about one of the best examples of its breed from one of the best vintages we […]

To all Wine Exchangers, As NBA broadcaster and former Knicks Point Guard Mark Jackson is prone to remark when there appears to be a player in the game that is simply unstoppable… “Mama, there goes that man.” And Larry McKenna is unstoppable. The pioneer of modern, serious Pinot Noir in New Zealand, Larry McKenna, created […]

To all Wine Exchangers, “They’re consistently some of the finest Chardonnays produced in the State.” – Jeb Dunnuck For those of you that didn’t see or read our offer last year on this remarkable new Chardonnay project from the gang at K Vintners, here’s the scoop…. So, anyway, a pretty HUGE winery by the name […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Today we’re offering up another Winex exclusive on a house fave that delivers completely absurd quality for the money. Some of you remember the story of Chateau Marsau, right? Located in the Cotes de Francs, just north and east of St. Emilion, this property has always had to work twice as hard […]

To all Wine Exchangers, If you were to actually ask for the same value proposition that this wine is actually offering, folks would say you were unrealistic.  Think about it.  Requesting a top-flight wine from a benchmark vintage, with bottle age for under fifty bucks?  Of course.  And there’s a bridge I’d like to sell […]