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Registration for the 2015 is NOW OPEN!

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And please note: The festival sells out very quickly. Please grab your spots asap to ensure availability.

We are thrilled to announce that
THE BOULDER BURGUNDY FESTIVAL 2015 SCHEDULE
is now available online!

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In coming weeks we'll be adding detailed descriptions of each event, including some of the wines that will be featured.

We plan to open registration on Tuesday, September 1. 

It was the harvest of 1997 when Food & Wine magazine executive wine editor Ray Isle gave up a promising career as a fiction writer and professor (he was teaching creative writing at Stanford) to pursue his passion for wine.

It is with extreme pleasure and pride that we share this news: Bonneau du Martray is to be the featured domaine at this year's Boulder Burgundy Festival.

And festival guests will be joined by the domaine's legacy winemaker Jean-Charles le Bault de la Morinière, one of the most charismatic and dynamic personages working in fine wine today. He will be pouring and speaking about his wines.

Not only will be the featured producer dinner on the Saturday night of the festival but he will also deliver a seminar on his wines on Sunday morning.

In 2013, Food & Wine executive wine editor Ray Isle, one of our favorite wine writers, asked "emperor of wine" and Wine Advocate founder Robert Parker, Jr. to revisit and reflect on some of his more famous (infamous?) pronouncements on wine over the arc of his career.

Now in its fifth year, the 2015 Boulder Burgundy Festival — October 22-25 — is going to be bigger and better than ever.

Festival founder and Master Sommelier Brett Zimmerman is currently in the process of lining up panelists that will include leading U.S. sommeliers, wine writers, and Burgundy experts as well as a stellar group of Burgundy growers and winemakers who will be on hand to taste and talk about their wines.

Last week, I inadvertently accepted an invitation to a preview of an outdoor weekend "wine fest" here in Houston. I won't go into the details but by the time I realized what kind of wines were being poured, it was too late to decline politely.

The centerpiece wine in the tasting was a California red blend by a legacy Napa grape grower and winemaker and a celebrity tattoo artist.

Curious about the wine, I looked it up on the winemaker's site. Here's how the tasting notes and technical info read:

Last week's post "Can a sommelier be trusted?" turned out to be more polarizing that I imagined.

It was retweeted and shared on Facebook by numerous wine professionals, many of whom thanked me for writing it.

At the same time, a number of readers commented (on various social media platforms) that my notes on Sullivan's article were "ill tempered" (as one Twitter user wrote).