{"product_id":"chateau-haut-bergey-2025-bordeaux-en-primeur","title":"Chateau Haut Bergey 2025 [Bordeaux En Primeur]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNote:\u003c\/strong\u003e This is a Bordeaux Futures item. \u003cstrong\u003eEstimated Arrival Fall 2028\u003c\/strong\u003e. However, you'll never get a better price on this great vintage of Bordeaux. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e*Price does not include possible tariffs. Tariffs will be collected on arrival if we have to pay them - we are hopeful that they will no longer be in affect by 2028*\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eChâteau Haut-Bergey 2025 — Pessac-Léognan\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eScore references:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e James Suckling 93–94; other critic responses appear more mixed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHaut-Bergey is an organically and biodynamically farmed Pessac-Léognan estate, which makes it philosophically very appealing for our Bordeaux selection. The 2025 is described by its more positive reviewers as medium-bodied, elegant, dark-fruited, and framed by precise tannins. That said, critical response appears more divided here than for some of our other picks, so we are treating this as a wine for customers specifically interested in the estate’s farming and Graves\/Pessac character rather than as a consensus critic darling. The appeal is earthy, savory, and more alternative-Bordeaux in spirit.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"col-12 mt-4\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"d-flex mb-4\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHow futures work\u003c\/strong\u003e: Many great chateaux of Bordeaux release a portion of wines from the latest vintage in the spring after harvest. Critics and other industry players flock to Bordeaux in April for barrel tastings to score the wines and judge the vintage as a whole. We are offered wines as they release prices over the next couple of months knowing that these won't arrive for 2+ years after we order them. However, once the wines release the prices will usually be much higher.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs a retail shop we have to pay a few months after we order these wines, so we offer the bottles for sale to help fund that payment, and in exchange we take a very low margin. When the wines arrive the purchasers have the benefit of owning bottles which will age for decades at a great price. And any bottles which were not purchased from us go into our inventory where we are able to charge higher margin thanks to the futures price being so low. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTLDR: You pay for wines 2 years before you get them, but there'll never be a lower price. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Misa Colorado","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50110246453471,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0439\/7436\/1248\/files\/y_ea19507d-3d8c-467f-b0b8-d2618ce45e25.jpg?v=1781284247","url":"https:\/\/denverwinemerchant.com\/products\/chateau-haut-bergey-2025-bordeaux-en-primeur","provider":"Denver Wine Merchant","version":"1.0","type":"link"}