Immerse yourself in a Bordeaux winemaking experience and create your own limited-edition fine wine with Château Lynch-Bages and the oenologist to four of Bordeaux’s five 1855 First Growths.

 
 

Your will create a singular work of art with unparalleled access to prestigious vineyards from Bordeaux’s best appellations — Margaux, Saint-Julien, Pauillac, Saint-Estèphe, Pomerol and Saint-Émilion.

 
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Guided by our award-winning design team, you will create a label and brand to tell your own story and capture your wine’s personality.

 
 

Embark on this winemaking adventure with family and friends, or as a solo journey of self discovery. Come to Bordeaux privately or attend our various events to refine your wine in the company of experts and fellow VINIV members.

 
 
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Reserve your barrel allocation
Reserve your barrel allocation

Your VINIV winemaking journey begins once you have decided to reserve one or several barrels for production. A down payment is required to confirm your allocation, with the balance due just before bottling in May 2021. We accept orders anytime between September 2019 and November 2020, subject to wine availability. The earlier that you do this the better as allocations are available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Discuss your wine plan
Discuss your wine plan

VINIV will organise a brief planning call with you to further discuss your experience, understand your desired wine style and level of involvement. VINIV members typically come to work on their blend once during the winemaking cycle either during a private blending session with our winemakers or during a blending event.

Discover your vineyards
Discover your vineyards

Seeing for yourself the diversity of ‘terroir’ across vineyards in Bordeaux’s best appellations is an instructive journey and helps you understand how each vineyard can influence your wine. These visits, which VINIV will help you organise, are optional and can take place when you come to Bordeaux to work on your blend.

Create your wine blend
Create your wine blend

Your private blending session is ultimately the most important, enjoyable and educational step in your winemaking journey. These sessions take place between April 2020 and February 2021 and how you do this depends on how you want to live the experience. If you want to do this privately, we can arrange a private blending session with our winemakers to take place at VINIV. We also host blending events – at VINIV, in the UK and US – which allow you to have a private blending session with winemakers and meet other members. If you can’t make it to Bordeaux or to our events outside of France, we can organise virtual blending sessions where our winemakers prepare and send you blend options based on your preferences.

Design your wine brand and label
Design your wine brand and label

How and when you work with our design team will be outlined in your wine plan discussion. The deadline for label design completion is February 2021.

Receive your wine
Receive your wine

Bringing your wine home is the last step of your winemaking journey. Your wine will be bottled and ready to ship in the September-October timeframe of 2021. Depending on where you live, there are different transport costs, sales tax (VAT) or import duties to consider. The VINIV team will contact you about the shipping needs and costs for you and your group.

 

Bordeaux’s 2019 vintage continues a string of six vintages of excellent quality wines. If it’s the first time that you are considering making a wine with VINIV it’s an excellent vintage to start.

 

“2019 is an interesting vintage because of its elegance. It is full of tannins, yet it’s not overly powering thanks to its freshness and fruit. VINIV’s parcels demonstrate this across the appellations.”

Daniel LLose – General Technical Director
Château Lynch-Bages & Château Ormes de Pez

“2019 is another vintage that hits a high mark of quality. Just like the 2018 vintage, each vineyard shows its true character, making it easy for VINIV members to understand the distinctions between them and isolate the preferences for their own wine. It makes blending with clients a real pleasure and even we discover something new every time.”

Nicolas Labenne – Head Winemaker
Château Lynch-Bages & Château Ormes de Pez

“2019 was a solar vintage, with the added twist of combining rich, opulent Merlot and Cabernet Franc with more classic, powerful Cabernet Sauvignon. This vintage most resembles 2016 and is worthy of the best vintages of the 2000s.”

Eric Boissenot – oenologist & consultant to VINIV and Lafite Rothschild, Mouton Rothschild, Margaux, Latour, Palmer, Pichon Comtesse, Pichon Baron, Ducru-Beaucaillou, LÉoville Barton, Léoville Las Cases ETc.

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