The Saturday Paulée Lunch, the festival’s signature event.

Over the years, the Paulée Lunch has become the festival’s marquee event, capturing the esprit of the gathering.

Although we skipped the event for last year’s virtual festival, the 2019 Paulée Lunch was one of the best to date. And as always, the wines that made their way around the room were exceptional.

Below, we’ve shared a video and a couple of highlights from the event.

We couldn’t be more thrilled to be bringing the lunch back this year.

Be sure to visit the Facebook photo album (at the bottom of this post) for more food and wine highlights.

Click here for more highlights from the 2019 event.

Acclaimed wine writer Alice Feiring to present Aligoté seminar (Fri., Oct. 22).

We are thrilled to announce that acclaimed American wine writer Alice Feiring (left) will be joining us for the festival’s Aligoté seminar on Friday, October 22.

Click here for details and registration.

Alice has spent countless hours in Burgundy and she is widely considered to be a leading expert on Aligoté.

We couldn’t be more happy that she has agreed to present what is sure to a fantastic tasting.

Journalist and essayist Alice Feiring was proclaimed “the queen of natural wines” by The Financial Times. Feiring is a recipient of a coveted James Beard Award for Wine Journalism,

among many other awards. She has written for newspapers and magazines including The New York Times, New York, Time, AFAR Magazine, World of Fine Wine, and the beloved wine zine, Noble Rot. She frequently lectures worldwide as well as appearing on national radio and podcasts.

Her previous books include Natural Wine for the People, Dirty Guide to Wine, For the Love of Wine, Naked Wine: Letting Grapes do What Comes Naturally, and her controversial 2008 debut, The Battle for Wine & Love or How I Saved the World from Parkerization. Her next book, To Fall in Love Drink This, drops August 2022.

Alice lives in New York and publishes the authoritative natural wine newsletter The Feiring Line.

Featured Wines:

2019 Le Grappin Aligoté

2018 Domaine de Villaine Bouzeron

2019 Pierre Morey Bourgogne Aligoté

2015 Domaine Ponsot Morey St. Denis Mont Luisants VV

2015 Claire Naudin Le Clou Aligoté

2018 Sylvain Pataille ‘Clos du Roy’ Aligoté

Preview this year’s featured wines.

*Above: Domaine du Cellier aux Moines’ owners Philippe Pascal and his daughter Margot. Margot will be joining us this year as the Boulder Burgundy Festival 2021 featured producer.*

One of the main reasons that Master Sommelier Brett Zimmerman launched the Boulder Burgundy Festival more than 10 years ago was that he wanted to create a Burgundy-centric event that wasn’t prohibitively expensive.

Over the years, he has featured a wide array of estates and wines, ranging from the astronomically to the affordably priced. He always tries to strike a balance between Burgundy’s most coveted and collected and its more approachable and value-driven wines.

There couldn’t be a better example of this than this year’s featured estate, Domaine du Cellier aux Moines from the village of Givry in the Côte Chalonnaise. And couldn’t be more excited to have Margot Pascal as our special guest for the 2021 festival’s Frasca dinner on Saturday and the seminar on Sunday at the Embassy Suites Hotel.

As a preview to this year’s gathering, Brett and his team at the Boulder Wine Merchant have put together this special offering of Domaine du Celllier aux Moines wines.

We are confident that you’ll find the wines to be as well priced as they are delicious.