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.
We couldn’t be more thrilled to be welcoming Simon Colin and Pierrick Bouley (above) for our Saturday night winemaker dinner at 316 Steakhouse!
Here is the flight of wine that will be poured:
Domaine Simon Colin 2020 Bouzeron Clous
Domaine Simon Colin 2020 Chassagne-Montrachet
Domaine Simon Colin 2020 Chassagne-Montrachet Vergers 1er Cru
Domaine Simon Colin 2020 Puligny-Montrachet Garenne 1er Cru
Domaine Pierrick Bouley 2019 Beaune Teurons 1er Cru
Domaine Pierrick Bouley 2019 Volnay Champans 1er Cru
Domaine Pierrick Bouley 2019 Volnay Les Grands Champs 1er Cru
See link below to register (just a few spots still available).
Saturday, November 12
Simon Colin & Pierrick Bouley WINEMAKER DINNER
316 Steakhouse hosts an exclusive Burgundy Producer dinner featuring special guests Simon Colin from Chassagne Montrachet and Pierrick Bouley (above) from Volnay.
6:00 pm at 316 Steakhouse
$395 per person all-inclusive, 70 seats available
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
We are pleased to announce the wines that will be poured on Friday, November 11 at the first dinner of this year’s festival at Blackbelly, our “Grand Cru Wine Dinner,” where only Grand Cru wines will be poured:
Heitz Cremant de Bourgogne
William Fevre 2018 Chablis Valmur Grand Cru
Anne Parent 2018 Corton Blanc Grand Cru
Desaunay 2018 Echezeaux Grand Cru
Domaine Génot-Boulanger 2017 Clos de Vougeot Grand Cru
Drouhin-Laroze 2019 Bonnes Mares Grand Cru
See link below to reserve.
Friday, November 11
The Grand Cru WINE DINNER
Blackbelly hosts an evening of special wines from Burgundy’s Grand Cru climats
6:00 pm at Blackbelly
$395 per person all-inclusive tasting, 70 seats available
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We are pleased to announce the flight of wines that we’ll be pouring at the opening seminar of the festival this year:
Olivier Merlin 2019 Mâcon La Roche Vineuse “Les Cras”
Chanterêves 2020 Bourgogne Hautes Côtes de Beaune Blanc Les Monts de Fussey
Jean Marc Brocard 2010 Chablis Les Preuses Grand Cru
Domaine Dandelion 2018 ‘Corail’ Vin de France
Anne Parent 2019 Pommard Les Chanlins 1er Cru
Domaine Dujac 2014 Morey St. Denis
Brett has gone to extraordinary lengths to put this tasting together: Some of the wines and vintages are nearly impossible to source but Brett and the panelists agreed that they would be key to illustrating what’s happening on the ground and who the major sustainability players are in Burgundy right now.
This is one not to miss!
Friday, November 11
Sustainability in Burgundy SEMINAR
with featured speakers
Esther Mobley
(San Francisco Chronicle)
Elaine Brown
(Jancis Robinson)
Carlin Karr
(Frasca Food and Wine)
A deep dive into six special producers and their approach to sustainability in wine production.
11:00 – 12:30 am at Embassy Suites Hotel
$95 per person, 80 seats available
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We are pleased to share the wines that will be poured at the Sunday, November 13 seminar:
Domaine Simon Colin 2020 Chassagne-Montrachet Morgeot 1er Cru
Domaine Simon Colin 2020 Chassagne-Montrachet Maltroie 1er Cru
Domaine Simon Colin 2020 Chassagne-Montrachet Chaumees 1er Cru
Domaine Pierrick Bouley 2017 Volnay Clos des Chenes 1er Cru
Domaine Pierrick Bouley 2018 Volnay Clos des Chenes 1er Cru
Domaine Pierrick Bouley 2019 Volnay Clos des Chenes 1er Cru
See event details and registration link below.
Sunday, November 13
Burgundy’s Rising Stars:
Chassagne Montrachet & Volnay SEMINAR
with Simon Colin & Pierrick Bouley
moderated by
Elaine Brown
(Jancis Robinson)
An educational seminar featuring the wines of
Simon Colin and Pierrick Bouley
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm at the Embassy Suites Hotel
$150 per ticket, 60 tickets available
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The term “Grand Cru,” write the editors of the Oxford Companion to Wine, “means literally ‘great growth’ in French. In Burgundy’s Côte d’Or a Grand Cru is one of 34 particularly favoured vineyards, a decided notch above premier cru.”
On Friday, November 11, only Grand Cru wines will be poured at the Boulder Burgundy Festival’s kick-off dinner at Blackbelly, one of Boulder’s hippest new dining destinations.
And this year’s festival marks the first time that Blackbelly owner Chef Hosea Rosenberg (above) will be creating a menu especially for this extraordinary line up of wines.
We couldn’t be more thrilled about this spectacular event.
From the Blackbelly website:
In November 2014, award-winning Chef Hosea Rosenberg evolved his esteemed Boulder, CO catering business, with a food truck and farm, into a long awaited, brick-and-mortar restaurant. The eatery was quickly identified as a Boulder essential, and elite dining destination in Colorado. Its early accolades include “Best New Restaurant” and has been ranked among 5280 Magazine’s top 25 restaurants in each subsequent year.
Heartfelt thanks to everyone who made it such a special event! It was wonderful to be back in person! Thank you also to our title sponsor @Coravin #explorebythepour
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.
