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BarrelTaster — Est. SonomaDrop No. 05 · May 2026

Single-pour micro-bottles, shipped to your door

The tasting room
of the world.

Unreleased barrel samples, tiny lots and library rarities from independent cellars you’d never find on a shelf — poured one glass at a time. Taste it before you ever commit to a bottle.

No subscription required · Pours from $6 · Ships where legal

This week’s dropSee all 40+ pours →

How it works

Most wine asks you to commit first.
We let you taste first.

01

Taste

Order single pours, not full bottles — 50–100ml of the real wine for the price of a coffee. Try six things instead of betting on one.

02

Explore

Follow your palate across regions, varietals and vintages with the Atlas. The more you taste, the sharper your recommendations get.

03

Commit when you’re sure

Found the one? Buy the full bottle, join the winery’s Crew or reserve from the barrel — only once you actually know you love it.

Still in the barrel

Tasted before
they’re even bottled.

Winemakers pull samples straight from the barrel months before release. You get to taste the vintage while it’s still taking shape — and call dibs before anyone else can.

Taste from the barrel

Club Flights

Thinking about a wine club?
Taste the shipment first.

A Club Flight is a four-bottle preview of a winery’s current club shipment. Try it here, and if you love it we’ll walk you straight to the membership on SplitVineyards. No guessing, no regret subscriptions.

100

The Hundred

100 wines that define the vintage.

Each year we taste thousands and hand-pick one hundred — the wines worth knowing this vintage, across every price and place. A field guide you can actually drink.

See the list

The Vault

Rare bottles. Library magnums. Things that don’t come back.

A rotating release of the cellar’s rarest — back-vintage verticals, large formats and one-off lots. When they’re gone, they’re gone.

Enter the Vault

The Atlas

You don’t have a wine list.
You have a palate. Go find it.

The Atlas maps every wine you taste across region, varietal and vintage, then points you toward the next thing you’ll love. Exploration, not homework.

Open the Atlas