Past Offers

To all Wine Exchangers, Many of you took advantage of our offer on Siro Pacenti’s outstanding 2011 Brunello that we ran late last year.  For those of you who have cracked a bottle, you’re welcome. That wine’s a knockout, and perhaps the wine of the vintage. But with no ‘latest vintage of the century’ from […]

To all Wine Exchangers, What’s Spanish for Groundhog Day? It’s a New Year and a new, better Hacienda de Monasterio. Most of you know the story already, we’ve sold a ton of this stuff over the years since my first fateful foray into a Corte Ingles (Spain’s premier department store) over a decade ago where […]

To all Wine Exchangers, The turnaround that the Frey family has engineered at the legendary Paul Jaboulet estate has been nothing but remarkable. At the tail end of the Jaboulet family’s run of the property things were going awry. A combination of failing health, lean years, the death of Gerard Jaboulet in 1997 and, from […]

To all Wine Exchangers, There are people out there that are convinced global warming is caused or exacerbated by greenhouse gasses.  There are others who are pretty sure the current scenario would have happened anyway as a leg of some 10,000-year weather cycle.  Surprisingly there are still folks out there that are confident that there […]

To all Wine Exchangers, It would be easy to write this even if we didn’t taste the wine.  We have worn our affection for Rioja on our sleeve for, what, a couple of decades? La Rioja Alta has been a house favorite for a long time and is one of the bastions of quality juice […]

To all Wine Exchangers, “…2015 is an exceptional and historic vintage again at Huet (perhaps the best since 1997). I can only recommend to buy cases of all styles.” – Stephen Reinhardt, Wine Advocate #227, October 2016   It doesn’t take a lot to get us to talk about one of our favorite estates in […]

To all Wine Exchangers, 2012 is an historic vintage…Why? Well, it’s a vintage that, after bottling, turned into something nobody expected. Beside vintages like 1998, 2001 and 2008, 2012 ended up being the biggest surprise of all. Once the wines made it into bottle, many of the scores soared two, three and as much as […]

To all Wine Exchangers, “..Tardy continues to do great work with his mostly villages level appellations and his wines are known for their ability to drink well young but age extremely well. 2015 should be no exception and they are very good but, with that success duly acknowledged, do not pass on his 2014s as […]

To all Wine Exchangers, Can there be there too much of a good thing? One supposes that would depend on the thing. There’s the old saying you can never be too thin or too rich. We suspect that 'you can never have too much 95 point, under $20 wine' would make another good cliché. The […]

To all Wine Exchangers, They did it again. Rocche Costamagna has delivered another remarkable Barolo value from one of Barolo’s most hallowed sites…and it’s probably their best one yet. We’re not ‘crying wolf’, the numbers tell the story. The 2010 Rocche Costamagna Barolo Rocche dell'Annunziata we sold was 94 points. We sold 900 bottles. The […]