Past Offers

To all Wine Exchangers, I remember tasting the powerful, blockbuster 1986 Bordeaux wines on release.  Quite the vintage, but a vintage that required a loooong time to come around.  Thank goodness for Bel-Air Lagrave! Over the years, we’ve become the ‘Bel-Air Lagrave Exchange’ for good reason… we love older, perfectly aged Bordeaux and you can’t […]

To all Wine Exchangers, The Borne of Fire Cabernet Sauvignon Columbia Valley The Burn 2016 is among the most anticipated debut releases we’ve encountered. New to the world of American Cabernet Sauvignon, this debut release carries a sale price under twenty bucks and received a whopping 96-point score from James Suckling. Its 96-point score puts […]

To all Wine Exchangers, It’s here.One of the greatest vintages ever of one of the world’s most acclaimed wines is here, and ready to roll. The 2015 Tenuta San Guido Sassicaia is a triumph, the perfect coming together of Sassicaia’s steadfast style and one of the Tuscan Coast’s kindest vintages. It’s the type of wine […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Can’t believe it took this long for a wine like this to appear. I mean, seriously, isn’t it amazing that one of the finest terroirs in the world for red wines would have produced almost exclusively dessert wines for the last century? Crazy, right? But with the advent of better farming […]

To all Wine Exchangers, It has been our mission of late to challenge the high cost of ‘North Coast Cabernet’ because the ones with that nebulous title are rarely very exciting, and the ones that say ‘Napa Valley’ on them are typically too expensive.  One of our solutions to this issue is to put successful […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Never thought this would happen. And I’m still trying to figure out why.  Why would one of California’s icon Chardonnays be a ‘vintage behind’ allowing us to come up with a heckuva deal (though limited) on that very same wine. We talk a lot about ‘machinations’ in the wine business in […]

Here come the ‘Blue Chips’. We’ve already extolled the multiple virtues of the modern classic 2015 Bordeaux vintage multiple times in these pages, you’ve seen the quotes, many of you by now have tasted a few of the wines. The ‘bits and pieces’ we’re offering up today are the latest arrivals to the store, the […]

To all Wine Exchangers, If this seems a little like ‘déjà vu’, we get it.  We have told Dave Corey’s tale more than once in conjunction with a few wines.  Dave Corey is one of those wine-geek types that seems always intrigued by the next challenge.   In fact, he may have had a few too many irons in the […]

To all Wine Exchangers, “The 2016s are on another level…The large crop, even, hot daytime temperatures, little precipitation and cool night resulted in a beautiful vintage that comes closest in style to 1990, or even a hypothetical mix of 2010 and 2007. The wines are beautifully concentrated and structured – on par with 2010 – […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Crazy to think, but Brunello di Montalcino hasn’t always been a ‘thing’.  Yes, there are those few bottles of 1888 or 1945 Biondi Santi kicking around, spoken of in hushed tones and reverence.  But, other than those bottles, Brunello really didn’t get off the ground as a known, premium genre of […]