Festival founder Brett Zimmerman and the entire event team are pleased to announce the dates for the 2023 Boulder Burgundy Festival: October 20-22. Please save the date.

Please also stay tuned for updates on the featured wineries and speakers. You can also visit BoulderBurgundyFestival.com for updated information in the near future.

Every year, top Burgundy winemakers, leading Burgundy collectors, wine writers and wine lovers from across the U.S. gather in Boulder for the Boulder Burgundy Festival, founded more than a decade ago by Boulder Wine Merchant owner and Master Sommelier Brett Zimmerman.

This non-profit event raises money each fall for local causes and scholarships for aspiring wine professionals.

Featured wineries have included D’Angerville and Roulot, just to name a few, and past wine writers who have participated include Eric Asimov (New York Times) and Master of Wine Jancis Robinson.

Thanks to everyone who took part and made it one of our best years ever! Thanks especially to winemakers Simon Colin and Pierrick Bouley for sharing their extraordinary wines with us. And thank you to Esther Mobley and Elaine Brown for their excellent seminars! What a great weekend!

Click here to see a Facebook album with photo highlights from the weekend.

Click here to register for the Boulder Burgundy Festival Grand Tasting on Sunday. Tickets still available.

When Boulder Burgundy Festival founder Brett Zimmerman launched the event more than 10 years ago, he wanted to create a Burgundy tasting experience that was affordable and approachable to all wine lovers.

Especially for those who are trying to learn more about the wines of Burgundy for the first time, the Sunday Grand Tasting represents an excellent opportunity to taste more than 200 top wines.

But what a lot of people don’t realize is that the wines are poured that day by some of the leading Burgundy experts in the country, some of whom fly in especially to work at the event.

Not only does the price of admission allow you to taste. But it also offers you the opportunity to taste and chat with people who really know and love these wines.

It’s yet another element in the festival that makes it entirely unique.

See link above for registration details.

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.