Hi Everyone,

Spend time at an international wine fair, and you’ll never see Pierre behind a booth. You’ll instead find him in the shadows, with awkwardly loose black jeans and a crumpled Carrefour bag hanging at his waist.

When you consider the mathematics, his approach makes sense: A booth at Prowein costs upwards of $50,000, while a grocery bag costs $0.05.

Add to the fact that Pierre knows EVERYONE in Burgundy, the Loire Valley, the Jura, and the Rhone, and you have a nice, creative, one-man business model.

Pierre is discreet.

Pierre is not his real name (we protect him).

Imagine how excited we were, for all of YOU, when Pierre pulled out six unlabeled bottles of 2019 and 2020 Burgundy from the Carrefour bag this year. The domaines from which they originated would also stay confidential, they’d invoice through “Rochebin,” and we would “bring our own label,” as is the usual arrangement with him.

Each bottle was open-knit and beautiful, and importantly without excessive wood as sometimes we can see with this tier that sits above Bourgogne Rouge in terms of cost and overall quality.

If the low exchange rate held, we could bring bottle #4, the perfect-drinking-window 2019 Hautes Cotes de Beaune to you in the $17’s! THAT would be insane, and today’s quick story sums up what is possibly the easiest decision we made on your behalf all year.

This is red Burgundy on a whole new level!

Due to limited stock, this product is offered online only.