BarrelTaster
Drop No. 2026-04

Taste what’s still aging in the barrel.

BarrelTaster pulls unreleased wines straight from independent cellars — barrel samples, small lots, and the bottles the winery quietly forgot it still had. A deliberate drop, not a catalog.

Browse this month’s dropBarrel samples only

Six samples · One afternoon · Free shipping in CA, OR, WA, NY

An opened BarrelTaster sample box on a kitchen counter at golden hour, four sample bottles nested in cream paper inside, a full bottle and tasting glass beside it mid-pour.
Sample box · 100ml × 4
On the shelf

This week's pour.

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Pouring this week

Just opened in our cellars.

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From the cellar

Barrel samples are wine before it knows what it is.

We pull a few hundred millilitres straight from the barrel — months or years before bottling. Tannins still raw, fruit still loud, decisions still unmade. You taste the conversation a winemaker is having with a vintage, in real time.

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    Winery

    Sample drawn

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    BarrelTaster

    Bottled cold, labeled

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    Your door

    Ships in 48h

Still in the barrel

Tasted before they're bottled.

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Your palate

Five quick reactions. We’ll start mapping what you’d love.

Yes if a wine looks like something you’d pour tonight. Pass if not. We’ll show you a rough sketch of your palate — and sharpen it as you taste real samples.

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North Block Cab

2021 · Napa

Under $10

A taste, not a commitment.

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The Vault

5 pours remain.

A single library bottle from one of our wineries’ private collections. When it’s gone, it’s gone — no second run, no restock. The Vault is a standing invitation to taste something you cannot otherwise buy.

Enter The Vault

Vault entries refresh once a quarter. We notify members first.

Library · 1998

5 pours remain

Overhead flat-lay of an opened BarrelTaster shipping box: four numbered sample bottles in cream crinkle paper, tasting card, QR code, wax-sealed envelope.
What arrives

A box you’ll want to keep.

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    Four 100ml samples

    Numbered, sealed, dated. Pour them blind or in order.

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    A tasting card

    Single sheet, no marketing. Notes, varietal, where the wine is in its life.

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    QR to the cellar

    Scan to see chemistry, the winemaker, what they're deciding next.

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    A note from the winery

    Hand-written when they have time. Sometimes a sketch of the block.

The Hundred

One hundred wines, one year, one box.

Once a year we curate a hundred-bottle collection — a snapshot of what mattered in independent winemaking that vintage. Every region, every style, every price point. Sip your way through the year, or save it for a tasting that takes a season.

See this year’s HundredPast vintages
An overhead grid of 100 wine bottles arranged 10×10, each slightly different in shape, color, and label — the year's curated collection.

100

wines · one year

For venues

Restaurants, wine bars, tasting rooms.

BarrelTaster for venues runs your by-the-glass pours, your staff training flights, and a programmable list that keeps up with your kitchen.

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