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Tickets still available for Grand Tasting, Sunday, November 3

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On Sunday, November 3, the Boulder Burgundy Festival will be hosting its Grand Tasting event at the Embassy Suites Hotel. As in years past, we will be featuring more than 200 top wines from Burgundy. It’s an extraordinary tasting and a fantastic value.

“It’s a great way to get to taste a lot wines you wouldn’t be able to and in one place,” said one top wine professional in attendance last year.

Whether you’re just beginning to dive into Burgundy or trying to hone your tasting chops, it’s a wonderful way to taste and interact with leading wine professionals from around the country.

And of course, nearly all the wines presented at the event are available for sale through the Boulder Wine Merchant.

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Boulder Burgundy Festival Grand Tasting
Sunday, November 3

Grand Tasting at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Boulder with more than 200 wines from Burgundy

Embassy Suites Hotel, 2601 Canyon Blvd, Boulder, CO 80302, (303) 443-2600

3 – 6 pm
$125 per person
180 seats available

BBF 2019 Tickets NOW ON SALE

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The 2019 Boulder Burgundy Festival will take place October 31 – November 3 in downtown Boulder.

This year’s featured winemaker is Jean-Marc Roulot (above) of Domaine Roulot, producer of some of Burgundy’s most sought-after bottlings of Mersault.

He will be the host of the marquee dinner at Frasca on Saturday, November 2, and will lead a seminar and guided tasting of his wines on Sunday, November 3, before the Grand Tasting.

From his importer’s website:

Domaine Roulot has always been among the best producers of Chardonnay in Burgundy. Under the guidance of Jean-Marc Roulot, the domaine is now amongst the few whose wines are always sold out even before they are in bottle. Jean Marc’s wines have the same precision and energy as the individual. Like the man, they are full of spirit and intensity.

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Boulder Burgundy Festival 2019 DATES ANNOUNCED: October 31-November 3

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We are pleased to announce that the 2019 Boulder Burgundy Festival will take place the weekend of October 31-November 3 (Thursday through Sunday).

Please mark your calendars and please be sure to follow us here on the blog and on Facebook for updates.

Happy new year, everyone! Thanks again for the biggest and best Boulder Burgundy Festival ever in 2018. Looking forward to this year’s event.

Wines from the 1930s, 40s, and 50s wowed festival goers last night at Old and Rare Tasting

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Above: Boulder Burgundy Festival founder and organizer Brett Zimmerman MS (right) with Boulder Lifestyle magazine publisher Andy Manz and his wife Kate.

Now in its eighth year, the Boulder Burgundy Festival offered guests a different format for its highly anticipated “Old and Rare” tasting, featuring wines selected from the Guild of Sommeliers cellar by Jay Fletcher MS.

Instead of a formal seated seminar and tasting, the event was a walk-around, creating a more convivial atmosphere than in years past, a great way to kick off the gathering.

camille-giroud-vintagesAbove: The flight of wines poured last night stretched back to the 1930s, like these bottles from Camille Giroud.

Because he wasn’t obliged to have multiple bottles of each lot on hand, said Jay, he was able to reach back deep into the collection. For a formal tasting, he explained, he would need six bottles of each. But for a walk-around, he could pull “onesies” from the cellar.

Most agreed that the top bottle of the night was the 1934 Henri de Villamont Chambolle-Musigny Charmes, a wine that showed remarkably fresh and vibrant with fruit flavors that were “very much alive.”

old-burgundy-wineAbove: There were also a broad selection of wines from the 1990s and the 2000s.

As many festival goers noted last night, it was the most extraordinary cocktail party they had ever attended (and the price of admission was an unbelievable value).

Festival founder Brett Zimmerman MS pointed out that the minimum opening bids for the auction lots were extremely low compared to the market value of the wines.

All proceeds from the event go to the Somm Foundation, which funds education for aspiring wine professionals.

Today’s events include the Masters of Wine Beaujolais seminar and the North Berkeley dinner at Corrida.

Click here for the complete schedule, including links to the few events that are not yet sold out.

Stay tuned for more posts from the festival!

The Grand Tasting features more than 200 top wines from Burgundy.

One of the greatest values of the festival, the Sunday afternoon Grand Tasting features more than 200 top wines from Burgundy.

From the veteran Burgundy collector to the aspiring wine professional, tasters love this event because it represents a unique opportunity to taste such a wide spectrum of Burgundian wines.

The other neat thing about the Grand Tasting is that all of the pourers are seasoned wine professionals in their own right. It’s a wonderful way to interact with some of the best people working in the business.

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Sunday November 4
Grand Tasting

Grand Tasting at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Boulder with over 200 featured wines from Burgundy

Embassy Suites Hotel
3:00 pm – 6:00 pm
$125 per person

Taste 7 Gevrey-Chambertin with Pierre Rovani and Kelli White

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Renowned Burgundy expert Pierre Rovani (above) and Napa-based author and sommelier Kelli White will be leading the Sunday seminar on wines from Gevrey-Chambertin. Remoissenet (see below) is this year’s featured domaine.

The name Remoissenet for serious collectors stands for refined, classic Burgundy wines. A leading light in Beaune for generations, the estate today — with new management and fresh talent in the cellar — is now more than ever the definitive source for the best Burgundy has to offer. Yet what is the most striking about the wines from this leading négociant estate is their unforgettable texture: With Remoissenet, it’s all about the finish. These are wines that linger on the palate and in your memory, long after each bottle is emptied.

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Sunday, November 4
Gevrey-Chambertin, King of Burgundy Seminar

Educational seminar at the Embassy Suites Hotel featuring special guests Pierre Rovani from Remoissenet and author Kelli White.

2013 Remoissonet Gevrey-Chambertin

2014 Remoissonet Gevrey-Chambertin

2015 Remoissonet Gevrey-Chambertin Poissenot 1er

2016 Remoissonet Gevrey-Chambertin Cazetiers 1er

2016 Remoissonet Gevrey-Chambertin Poissenot 1er

2014 Remoissonet Charmes Chambertin Grand Cru

2016 Remoissonet Charmes Chambertin Grand Cru

Embassy Suites Hotel
Noon – 1:30 pm
$175 per person all-inclusive