Can Boulder Wine Merchant help with private wine tastings?

Boulder Wine Merchant is well positioned to support private wine tasting concepts, educational tastings, client events, and group wine experiences.

What themes work well for a private wine tasting?

Strong tasting themes include Burgundy, Champagne, classic regions, blind tasting, food pairing, seasonal wines, and introductory wine education.

Who are private wine tastings good for?

Private tastings can work for client events, team gatherings, birthdays, celebrations, collector dinners, and friends who want a guided wine experience.

Private Wine Tastings Boulder

Private wine tastings, led by Brett.

A guided tasting in your home, the shop, or a private dining room. Brett curates the wines, you bring the guests. From $1,200.

What a tasting looks like

Six to eight wines, two hours, narrated.

A typical private tasting runs 6-8 wines over two hours, with Brett walking the room through each pour — what it is, where it is from, why we are pouring it, and how to taste it.

Format options: a single-region deep dive (Burgundy, Champagne, Northern Rhône), a vintage horizontal, a producer comparison, or a pairing dinner with a chef partner.

Capacity is 4-30 guests. We bring everything: wines, glassware, tasting notes, spit buckets if needed.

Tasting formats

Three favourite ways to do this.

Region deep dive

A single region, eight bottles.

Burgundy, Champagne, Northern Rhône, Piedmont, Tuscany. Producer-by-producer, village-by-village.

Pairing dinner

Five courses, five wines.

With a chef partner in your home or a private dining room. Brett pairs the wines.

Vintage horizontal

Same producer, multiple vintages.

A great way to understand house style and how Burgundy or Bordeaux ages.

Book a tasting

Engagements are private.

Email a few details — date range, headcount, location, format preference, budget — and we will send a proposal within two business days.

Email Brett

Private tasting ideas

Build the tasting around a place, a question, or a table.

Quiet European winery cellar prepared for a guided tasting

Private wine tastings can be educational without becoming formal. Burgundy, Tuscany, and Piedmont give hosts beautiful themes for client events, birthdays, collector dinners, and relaxed Boulder gatherings.

Burgundy and texture

A Burgundy tasting can explore Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, limestone, village identity, and why small differences become meaningful in the glass.

Tuscany and food

A Tuscan tasting naturally invites conversation around olive oil, tomato, grilled meats, aged cheese, Sangiovese, Brunello, and the comfort of food-friendly reds.

Barolo and patience

Piedmont tastings can show perfume, tannin, aging, vintage, and the difference between Nebbiolo that is ready now and bottles built for later.