Four Bottles for 5787: Building the Fall Cellar Club Box
Four times a year a box arrives at your door, and we will let you in on our favorite part, which is the long, happy work of deciding exactly which four bottles belong together inside it.
This fall the shipment divides beautifully, with two wines from California and two from Bordeaux. Two of them are bottles our members have been asking after for ages, and two are joining the club for the very first time, so there is a real treat waiting the moment you cut the tape!
How The Box Comes Together
Every bottle you receive is chosen personally by our founder and sommelier, Andrew Breskin, and this is the part that sets the Cellar Club apart. Andrew does not build a shipment around scores or around whatever happens to be well reviewed that season. He builds it around what you will actually want to open, tasting through far more wine than ever makes the box so that only the bottles worth your table earn a place in it.
The aim each quarter is a box with real range, two bottles you can pour tonight without waiting and two to tuck away and look forward to, and more often than not one of them will make you wonder where it has been hiding all this time.
A box of four collectibles is one that never quite gets opened, and a box of four everyday reds is one you forget by the weekend.
Andrew sends both at once, and takes care that nothing inside ever feels like a compromise. Every bottle earns its place, whether that place is on your table this fall or in your cellar for a night worth marking.
The Wines
2024 Broad Brush Sorhona Blend
Sonoma County / Mevushal
Every box needs a wine for tonight, and here it is. Pour it for anyone at the table and watch them come back for more, drawn in by its ripe fruit, vivid aromatics, and a supple, easygoing structure that makes it a pleasure from the first glass.
It is drinking beautifully today, yet it has the backbone to hold through 2032, so open it this fall while the evenings are warm or set it aside for a night worth celebrating.
2023 Château Castelbruck
Margaux / Bordeaux
This is the one to hold for later. Our members have been asking about it for a while, and 2023 is the vintage that brings it back. It comes from five hectares in Soussans, on the northern edge of Margaux, with Cabernet Sauvignon leading and Merlot filling in.
After a year in barrel, most of it new, you will find a soft vanilla frame around all that refined red fruit. It is powerful and elegant at once, and well worth holding a few years if you can bear to wait.
2023 Broad Brush Costa Series Giandi
Los Olivos District / California
This is the wine we can hardly wait for you to try, because Sangiovese and Grenache is a pairing you almost never see, and that is exactly what makes it such a thrill. It is light on its feet and made for drinking now, so give it twenty minutes in the fridge and pour it slightly chilled.
It has all the soul of an Italian red, savory and built for the dinner table, with a sunny California heart to carry it along. The Sangiovese brings its earthy depth and the Grenache its bright red fruit, and it is warm and welcoming from the very first sip.
2024 Château Divon
Saint-Georges-Saint-Émilion / Bordeaux
Some wines surprise you before you've even taken a sip, and Divon is one of them. It opens with raspberry, red plum, and apricot spilling out of the glass alongside a thread of fresh tarragon you will not soon forget.
It then deepens and turns generous, where layered dark fruit and lip-smacking tannins meet a bright stream of red fruit and crisp, mouthwatering acidity. This is one to tuck away and let come into its own, and we have a feeling it will reward every bit of the wait.
Your Box, Your Call
Four bottles arrive four times a year at $259 to $279 a shipment, and every one comes with detailed notes on the region, the vintage, the producer, and the story behind the wine.
Members take 10% off everything else in the shop, ship free on twelve bottles or more, and enjoy first call on allocated releases. You are welcome to swap out a bottle you would rather not have, skip a shipment, pause for a season, or cancel whenever you like, and nothing is ever charged until you have approved it.
We would love to have you join us for 5787.
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