Buying En Primeur means you are buying wine while it’s still in the barrel, before it’s bottled, and before the official release of the vintage. This gives you the unique opportunity to buy the best of the 2022 vintage, while benefitting from pre-release prices.

You buy En Primeur wine some time before vintage is officially released, while it is still with the producer. Once the wine is ready, it will be bottled and shipped by the producer. It will be stored in Bond when it arrives in the UK, which means that no UK Duty or VAT has been paid on it.

The En Primeur price is usually the best price to buy the wine. Once it is bottled and the vintage is officially released, the retail value generally increases. The price you pay when you buy En Primeur does not include Duty and VAT, you don’t need to pay this until the wines are taken out of Bond. This means that in the time between purchasing the wine and when you receive it, the value of the wine can increase but the Duty and VAT you pay on it will not.

Our Wine Director, Graeme Broome, has carefully curated a list of what he considers to be wines of note from the 2023 vintage. Browse our selection above and place your order through the form or by emailing orders@wine-importers.net

To the right of each listing, you will be able to see how the wine has been rated by various wine critics. JA denotes Jane Anson, WA denotes Wine Advocate, (Robert Parker), and JS denotes James Suckling.

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Please feel free to reach out to the Cockburns of Leith team with any other questions about En Primeur 2023. Tel: 0131 603 3333, Email: shop@cockburnsofleith.co.uk