Shipping Special!

It’s that glorious time of year again – the crisp air feels amazing after a torrid summer and if you’re lucky, your favorite NFL team is crushing it. Even more exciting than a week 4 win, it’s wine shipping season! Finally, the weather has cooled, and we are welcoming autumn with open arms by shipping as much as we can over the next few months. To celebrate, today we are offering free ground shipping on orders over $1,000!

I suggest stocking up with wines that are well-suited to cooler weather: red Burgundy with some age on it, Syrah (both Northern Rhone and US), Loire Valley’s and Washington state’s cab francs, and richer Champagnes and whites that can play well with heavier foods and that can age further. We had a chance to taste through many of these last week when we hosted a BYO event at UOVO Chicago. All the Cellar Trading selections shone brightly, starting with a magnum of Bruno Paillard NPU bubbles which disappeared quickly and was a contender for crowd favorite.

The winners of the night were our Pascal Cotat Grande Cote 2023 (absolutely lives up to the hype, especially for $60!), Clos Rougeard’s Clos 2018 – probably the most chased-after red of the evening, Faiveley’s Clos Vougeot 2009 in magnum – aging beautifully but still lots to give, and Lafon’s elegant and still very young Volnay Santenots du Milieu 2021. On the domestic front, the crowd loved the sumptuous 2021 Kobayashi Syrah and the 2022 Morgen Long Willamette Chardonnay. With a Miles and Coltrane soundtrack and sustenance from Chicago’s classic Honey Butter fried chicken, it was another memorable UOVO Chicago night.

Lastly, ending this epic wine week was dinner at Chicago’s Michelin-starred, Scandanavian-influenced Elske with a pristine bottle of 2015 Leflaive Puligny-Montrachet Clavoillon. Leflaive’s oeuvre continues to astonish me with its breadth and depth. We have a bit of the 2021 Bourgogne and the incredibly versatile 2015 Clavoillon and Pucelles left. Stock up and top off your cases with multiple Krug vintages, 2002 Dom Perignon and 2 Brochet bottlings, Burgundy standard-bearers Cathiard, Carillon, Lamy, Mugnier, Ramonet, Raveneau and Sauzet, and Italian superstars Biondi-Santi, G. Conterno, Montevertine and Voerzio. Our free ground shipping offer for orders over $1,000 applies to all wines in our inventory!