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Denver Wine Merchant More than your total wine store! Pure, real expressions of wine from around the world. Owned by two lifetime beverage professional sommeliers.

We have a huge selection of local and imported beer, spirits and beverage tools. Denver’s coolest and best wine shop.

10/14/2026

Cozy Cold Weather Dishes & W**e Pairings 🍷🍂

Fall and winter call for some of my favorite food and w**e pairings. Maybe it’s my Eastern European roots, but I’m practically programmed to crave hearty, warming comfort food when the temperature drops.

Slow braises, caramelized vegetables, earthy mushrooms, rich sauces, melted cheese, aromatic herbs… what’s not to love?

Great pairings work for all sorts of reasons, whether it’s acidity cutting through richness, complementary flavors, or contrasting textures. And hearty food doesn’t always mean big red w**e!

Here are some combinations I’d be especially excited to eat and drink this season.

🍷 Red W**e–Braised Short Ribs with Creamy Polenta 🔸 Northern Rhône Syrah

🍷 Duck Confit Cassoulet with White Beans & Sausage 🔸 Bandol

🍷 Coq au Vin with Mushrooms & Pearl Onions 🔸 Red Burgundy

🍷 Rosemary-Braised Lamb Shanks with White Beans 🔸 Châteauneuf-du-Pape or Southern Rhône

🍷 Osso Buco with Saffron Risotto 🔸 Nebbiolo!

🍷 Wild Mushroom Risotto with Parmesan & Thyme 🔸 Burgundy/Nebbiolo/Jura

🍷 Slow-Cooked Beef Ragù with Pappardelle 🔸 Sangiovese

🍷 Tartiflette with Reblochon & Lardons 🔸 Savoie Jacquère

🍷 Butternut Squash Gnocchi with Brown Butter & Sage 🔸 Loire Chenin Blanc

🍷 French Onion Soup with Gruyère 🔸 Jura Savagnin or Blanc de Noirs Ch*****ne

🍷 Hungarian Beef Goulash with Buttered Egg Noodles 🔸 Austrian Blaufränkisch

🍷 Cider-Braised Pork Shoulder with Apples & Cabbage 🔸 German or Alsatian Riesling

🍷 Lamb Shepherd’s Pie with Golden Mashed Potatoes 🔸 Rioja Reserva or Aged Bordeaux

🍷 Beef Bourguignon 🔸 Gevrey-Chambertin

Which one(s) will you make?

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Come taste some aged w**e with a pretty weird dessert w**e to finish it off! It’s FREE. Limited w**es available for purc...
10/09/2026

Come taste some aged w**e with a pretty weird dessert w**e to finish it off! It’s FREE. Limited w**es available for purchase!

📍 Denver W**e Merchant
🕰️ Friday October 9, 4-7pm
🍷 Old Bordeaux

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10/03/2026

I poke fun at w**e reps because I was one! Steven actually was a w**e rep at one point, too. I wasn’t a very good rep because I’m not a salesperson at heart. I come from a hospitality and service background and I always enjoyed taking care of people more than making the sale. To me, the sale is a result of taking care of someone. I didn’t last long as a rep.

Back in 2013, I sold w**e in San Francisco for a random tiny company and met Steven while he was working at Eno W**e Bar.

One evening I showed up to Eno and they were having a w**emaker event featuring Sean Thackrey himself. There was one spot at the table with Sean and Steven so I joined them and got to know Sean and his epic w**es, which were the most artistic expression of w**e I had ever had up until that point.

A quote from him I love: “The absence of defects is not the presence of virtues.” —Sean Thackrey

Steven asked me if I wanted to go get some discount sushi and the rest is history!

🍂🍁 𝓞𝓬𝓽𝓸𝓫𝓮𝓻 𝓑𝓾𝓻𝓰𝓾𝓷𝓭𝔂 𝓒𝓵𝓾𝓫 🎃 plus a little poem This month’s releases feature producers that deserve to be in your cellar ...
10/01/2026

🍂🍁 𝓞𝓬𝓽𝓸𝓫𝓮𝓻 𝓑𝓾𝓻𝓰𝓾𝓷𝓭𝔂 𝓒𝓵𝓾𝓫 🎃 plus a little poem

This month’s releases feature producers that deserve to be in your cellar - which is really why we started the Burgundy Club in the first place. Not all producers are created equal, but Burgundy is home to more ultra top-tier producers than any other w**e region, arguably. Still, the majority of w**es from Burgundy aren’t at the level that we’re looking for with these club selections, and we hope that becomes more apparent over time.

🔸This is the first release of the “Grand Cru” club and also a particularly strong 1er Cru club release🔸

🔹Burgundy “Grand Cru” Club

🔹White W**e: Hubert Lamy Saint-Aubin “La Princee” 2023
🔹Red W**e: François Mikulski Volnay 1er Cru Santenots du Milieu 2024

◽️Burgundy 1er Cru Club

▫️White W**e: Maison Gautheron d’Anost Ladoix 1er Cru Les Grechons 2024
▫️Red W**e: Domaine Harmand-Geoffroy Bourgogne Rouge La Nouroy 2020

𝙋𝙚𝙖𝙘𝙚𝙛𝙪𝙡 𝙈𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 🍂

Crisp air drifts through amber trees,
Burgundy glowing ruby in the fading light;
the season asks for nothing more
than to linger here a little while.

For life is richest in its smallest luxuries—
a perfect glass, a golden hour, an autumn breeze;
nothing grand, nothing promised,
just the quiet pleasure of this moment.

🥇🥇🥈 Denver W**e Merchant just received the W**e-Searcher Retailer Awards for 2026/27!🥇 Gold — Best European W**e List in...
09/29/2026

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Denver W**e Merchant just received the W**e-Searcher Retailer Awards for 2026/27!

🥇 Gold — Best European W**e List in Denver
🥇 Gold — Best French W**e List in Denver
🥈 Silver — Best Overall W**e List in Denver

When we opened DWM six years ago, we wanted to create a w**e shop that reflected the w**es we genuinely love, with an emphasis on thoughtful producers, smaller estates, and bottles you would find on the w**e list of the best restaurants in the world. We have an emphasis on European w**es, but try to represent the best of every region.

It’s pretty cool to see that recognized on an international platform like W**e-Searcher, which we constantly reference when buying w**e to make sure our prices are competitive with the national market and not just locally. That’s another reason we tend towards smaller producers ⇰ a w**e that is available in hundreds of case quantities is inherently large scale production with big national brand deals that we can’t compete with (︶︹︺)

A huge thank you to our little team, the importers and producers we work with, and especially all of you who continue to trust us to put good w**e in your hands.

🍷🥂💛

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★★★ SANDRONE TASTING ★★★Join us in the shop on Tuesday for a tasting of one of the great estates of Barolo.Tuesday 9/29 ...
09/26/2026

★★★ SANDRONE TASTING ★★★

Join us in the shop on Tuesday for a tasting of one of the great estates of Barolo.

Tuesday 9/29 🔹 4–6 PM
Denver W**e Merchant
FREE — 𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐩𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐬𝐞

Our friend Ben Stewart from Giuilana W**e Company will be there with the w**ery’s Export Manager! Come nerd out with us.

Luciano Sandrone’s story began humbly: he had no inherited vineyards, made his first w**es in his family garage, and purchased his first parcel in Cannubi Boschis in 1977. His breakthrough came when an American buyer tasted his 1978 Barolo at Vinitaly and bought nearly the entire production ✸ just 1,500 bottles.

Today, Sandrone has grown into one of Piedmont’s most recognized estates while remaining a family operation. The philosophy is still centered on native varieties, exceptional vineyard sites, and w**es that balance the traditions of Barolo with the precision that helped define the estate’s modern reputation. Le Vigne, for example, deliberately preserves the old Barolo tradition of blending Nebbiolo from multiple villages and vineyard sites, while Aleste comes from the Cannubi Boschis vineyard. It’s named after Luciano’s grandchildren: ALEssia + STEfano = ALESTE.

We’ll be pouring:
❉ Sandrone Dolcetto d’Alba 2024
❉ Sandrone Barbera d’Alba 2024
❉ Sandrone Nebbiolo d’Alba Valmaggiore 2024
❉ Sandrone Barolo Le Vigne 2022
❉ Sandrone Barolo Aleste 2022

This is a seriously good lineup. See you Tuesday!

🇦🇹 September W**e Club 🇦🇹 This month we’re featuring an all Austrian w**e club to highlight one of the greatest w**e reg...
09/19/2026

🇦🇹 September W**e Club 🇦🇹

This month we’re featuring an all Austrian w**e club to highlight one of the greatest w**e regions of the world.

We’ve chosen 3 w**es that represent the best of Austria: Gruner Veltliner, Riesling, and Blaufrankisch

🔸Josef Fischer Riesling Smaragd Ried Steiger 2021
🔸Emmerich Knoll Loibner Gruner Veltliner Federspiel 2025
🔸Gesellmann Blaufränkisch vom Lehm 2023

With our w**e club you get: in depth information about each w**e and producer profile, custom pairings and recipes for each w**e, access to the incredible community we’ve built and invites to our limited classes taught by Steven (a MASTER SOMMELIER 🏆)

6 spots left for September’s club! Sign up on our website 📲 link in bio

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Thanks for reading,
Love, Sally

🇦🇹 Tomorrow, Wednesday September 16 is our second Austrian Masterclass — now taught by a (official) Master Sommelier!The...
09/15/2026

🇦🇹 Tomorrow, Wednesday September 16 is our second Austrian Masterclass — now taught by a (official) Master Sommelier!

The class is sold out, BUT we’re offering discounted tasting packs of the w**es featured in the class for you to open up and taste at home alongside a livestream of our class!

📲 We’ll be streaming on instagram live tomorrow 6:00pm-8:00pm

You can follow along in the comfort of your own home!

You can buy the packs online by searching for each pack:
🔸The Epic: Knoll & Moric $119
🔸The Awesome: Pichler & Zweigelt $69
🔸The Classic: Neumeister & Malat $69
🔸The Natural: Muster & Zahel $89

Tune in tomorrow for our live stream class!

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9/10/26 — Steven passed (again) the Master Sommelier exam in Houston! ✨🥂✨It’s hard to put into words what it feels like ...
09/11/2026

9/10/26 — Steven passed (again) the Master Sommelier exam in Houston! ✨🥂✨

It’s hard to put into words what it feels like to see him wearing that red pin again.

Steven originally passed the Master Sommelier exam in 2018, an accomplishment that was later taken away from him through circumstances completely outside of his control. Eight years later, he went back and did it all over again.

I uncontrollably cried when they announced his name. Not because I ever needed another exam to prove what I already knew about him, but because this has been such a long journey, and he can finally close this chapter for good.

I’ve watched how much work, discipline, sacrifice, and sheer mental energy it took to put himself through this process again. He is so deserving of this accomplishment, and seeing that red pin back where it belongs means more than I can say. He didn’t just pass it this time, he SLAYED it.

🏆 Steven Washuta, Master Sommelier. 🏆

And a huge congratulations to everyone who passed this year. What an incredible accomplishment.

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08/25/2026

I look forward to fall in Colorado: spooky season and cozy w**e.

And drinking Northern Rhône Syrah hits different once the temperature drops below 80°. 🩸🍷🍂🍁

Sleep all day. Party all night. Never grow old. Never die.

And drink Cornas once the temperature drops below 80°. 🩸🍷

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3911 Fox Street
Denver, CO
80216

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Monday 12pm - 8pm
Tuesday 12pm - 8pm
Wednesday 12pm - 8pm
Thursday 12pm - 8pm
Friday 12pm - 8pm
Saturday 12pm - 8pm
Sunday 11am - 7pm

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