Past Offers

To all Wine Exchangers, “The 2016 vintage was truly extraordinary for the Southern Rhône and is a vintage that readers should buy with abandon.” – Jeb Dunnuck For those of you in a hurry, the message above gets right to the point.  But that isn’t our quote.  It is from Jeb Dunnuck, former author of the Rhone […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Folks, Foillard is, as famous former Sportscenter anchor Dan Patrick used to say, en fuego. On. Fire.  In what may be the most happening, exciting region of France right now, Jean and Agnes Foillard, doing what they’ve always done since taking the reins of the estate back in 1980, may be […]

To all Wine Exchangers, This was crazy. What happens when wines have too much good press?  I think we had this happen a couple years ago with a Monsanto Riserva Chianti Classico that we had sold where, literally, the pundits can simply write the article themselves since the wines are so good almost no critic […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Roots run deep in Montalcino for the Lisini family. They know they’ve been a fixture in Montalcino since the 16th century, but most assuredly the Lisini-Clementi family were Montalcinese even before then. Over the centuries the family has seen it all, wars, famine, plague, the industrial revolution and yet, here they […]

To all Wine Exchangers, “…the quality of (Burklin-Wolf’s) generic estate Riesling…is almost unbelievably high and reflects the clarity and animation that have become estate hallmarks.” – David Schildknecht, Vinous Media It seems like there are more parameters to the ‘art of the deal’ than there used to be.  The ‘small world’ of the wine business […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Did you miss the Malartic? Gone in a blink and understandably so; that wine is a serious deal for a 2015 at the price. So, how might we feel about another seriously screaming 2015 deal but this time with a major link to one of the most famous Chateaux on the Right Bank? […]

To all Wine Exchangers, “No doubt, 2015 in the Northern Rhône has been trumpeted as the latest “vintage of the century.” And if one confines the search for analogs to the 21st century, that may very well be true.” – Joe Czerwinski, Wine Advocate #234“2015 is a truly sensational vintage that should not be missed by any Rhône lover […]

To all Wine Exchangers, One of the most highly-anticipated Spanish releases of the past year has arrived. We’ve been champing at the bit ourselves to taste the 2010 Gran Reserva Prado Enea from the beloved Bodegas Muga.  This iconic bottling helped pioneer the ‘classical’ Rioja wine movement in America and, since its introductory vintage to […]

To all Wine Exchangers, The southern Rhone is home to a number of small estates that do great work in relative obscurity.  We have made it our mission to look into as many as we can, and that process has turned up a few hidden gems.  While we can tell stories about a number of […]

To all Wine Exchangers, This one was news to us.Y’know, I’m pretty familiar with Piedmont, having visited the area numerous times over my career, having tasted in cellars too numerous to mention, and having sold hundreds of labels over the last quarter century. But I’d never heard of these guys.  Number one rule in the […]