Allocate early
Pre-arrival.
Order Burgundy, Bordeaux, and Champagne before they reach the shop. Reserve your bottles at release prices. Take delivery when the wines arrive in Boulder.
The best wines from Burgundy and Bordeaux are sold and allocated long before they arrive in the United States. If you wait until they’re on our shelves, the most-wanted bottles are gone. Pre-arrival is how serious collectors stay ahead of that.
How it works.
Each spring we publish the Bordeaux en primeur offer — wines from the previous vintage, tasted in barrel, sold for delivery 18-24 months later when the wines are bottled and shipped. Each fall we publish the Burgundy futures list, with the same model.
You commit to the wines you want. We take a 50% deposit. The wine is held in bonded warehouse storage in Europe until it ships. When it arrives in Boulder (typically 12-18 months after order), you pay the balance plus tax and pick up.
Why buy this way.
Three reasons. First, allocation: most of the wine sold this way is gone before it leaves France. Pre-arrival is the only way to secure it. Second, price: Bordeaux en primeur is sometimes 20-40% cheaper than the same wine when it arrives bottled, particularly for great vintages. Third, provenance: the wine never leaves cold-chain storage from the producer’s cellar to ours.
Currently active offers.
Check back here in spring (Bordeaux 2024 en primeur) and fall (Burgundy 2024 futures). We email the list when offers open.
Most recent past offers: Burgundy 2023 (closed Nov 2024), Bordeaux 2023 en primeur (closed June 2024), Champagne 2015 vintage releases (closed Jan 2025).
Storage.
If you’d rather not take delivery in Boulder — for example, you live elsewhere, or you want the wines stored professionally rather than at home — we can keep them in our climate-controlled cellar for an annual storage fee. Many of our long-cellar collectors take delivery only when they’re ready to drink.