This Week’s Wine Drop: Château Palmer 2014
The XIX Century cuvée, Wine Wednesday, and what’s behind the release.
🍇 This Week’s Wine Drop: Château Palmer, Looking Back
Some wines don’t just come from a place - they come from a moment in history.
This Thursday, January 29 at 1pm ET, we’re releasing a members-only allocation of Château Palmer 2014, XIX Century. This cuvée looks back to a time when Bordeaux routinely included a touch of Hermitage Syrah, a practice common in the 19th century and rarely revisited today (read more about this cuvée here: https://starwinelist.com/wine-story/biting-into-a-cloud-the-chateau-palmer-historical-xixth-century-wine).
Produced only in select vintages, this is one of Château Palmer’s most limited cuvées. Guided by Thomas Duroux, it combines Palmer’s aromatic intensity with an unusually supple, early approachability.
This release is limited, offered exclusively to members, and sets the tone for how we’re thinking about drops this year.
👉 Members: keep an eye on your inbox for access
🍷 Wine Wednesday: Château Palmer with Markus Gladitsch
Ahead of the drop, we’ll be spending Wine Wednesday going deeper into this cuvée.
I'll be joined by Markus Gladitsch, a sommelier and creative consultant working at the intersection of wine, art, and emerging technologies. With a background in high-end hospitality and fine wine, Markus develops contemporary storytelling formats that translate terroir, craftsmanship, and emotion into visual and digital experiences.
He’s also the creative mind behind the artwork for the Digital Cork of this release. On Wednesday, we’ll talk about the wine itself, the historical reference behind the XIX Century cuvée, and how storytelling and technology can change the way wine is experienced and remembered.
🗓 Wednesday January 28th at 5.30pm CET
🎟 Join us live → https://luma.com/WWPalmer
🧠 Worth Reading: Radical Transparency in Wine
We published a new article this week that gets to the heart of a growing problem in wine buying.
It looks at how opaque pricing, unclear custody, and platform-first incentives have slowly eroded trust, and why radical transparency is the only real way forward. Not louder marketing, not more hype, but clearer information and better alignment between buyers, sellers, and producers.
If you care about how wine is bought today, and how it should be bought tomorrow, it’s worth your time.
📖 Read the full article →
https://news.dvinlabs.com/radical-transparency-ending-the-enshittification-of-wine-buying
More to come this week, and see you tomorrow for Wine Wednesday!
Cheers,
Jana
Co-founder, dVIN Labs