Welcome to the Chairman’s Circle Cellar

Brought to you by the Bonner Private Wine Partnership

Dear Chairman’s Circle member,

Here’s something you might not know about the Oxford Club: Alex Green, Mark Lichtenfeld, and Steve McDonald know a thing or two about great wine.

Which is why, as part of your membership, you will also receive privileged access to one of the most exclusive – and unique – wine “clubs” in America. 

I say “club” in quotes because it’s not one of those cheap “wine of the month” clubs that repackage bulk wines.

It began when a group of friends and I – including a former winemaker from France’s Chateau Margaux – got together to import foreign wine without no middle men, inflated prices or bulk wines.

So far we’ve imported wines never before available in the US… including extreme altitude wines from a remote region in Argentina…

…‘old style’ Barolos seldom seen outside of Piemonte, Italy…

…and much more…

These are wines made in small batches using techniques handed down from father to son over generations. No oak extracts. No dyes (yep, sadly common). No harmful additives.

One of our winemaking partners with his sons

If you want to know more about our partnership, you scroll down the page. But for right now I want to tell you about YOUR “Chairman’s Circle Cellar” and the benefits you can enjoy right now…

Meet Your Chairman’s Circle Sommelier

Looking for a great wine to serve your guests? Or maybe you’re curious what a true wine connoisseur might recommend for your specific palate?

Meet your personal sommelier, Julien Miquel AIWS…

Originally from Bordeaux, Julien is a retired winemaker who has made wines all over the world, in nearly every major wine region including at Château Margaux, perhaps the most famous winery in France, as well as at Campo Elisio in Spain where he worked alongside the world-famous Michel Rolland.

He has also consulted for Wine Searcher and is the founder of the award-winning Social Vignerons. In 2015, he was named in the Top Ten Most Influential People in Wine.

To submit a question, simply enter your email address below to register with us and we’ll contact you to get the process started.

Discover Your Chairman’s Circle Cellar

Malbecs from grapes grown at 9,000 feet… Bolgheris that smell of breezes from the Tyrrhenian Sea… a secret region in France where vines grow in a moon-like landscape of razor-sharp schist rock… 

As a Chairman’s Circle member, you can access our cellar of incredible wines.

Here’s how it works:

Several times a year, we’ll send you a note to let you know what we have in our cellar. You can order half or full cases of wine. And you’ll be able to do so at a deep discount.

These are wines that you will not typically find in the US.

And we do not sell them to anyone outside our club except for Chairman’s Circle members.

Supplies are extremely limited. Because of the limited supply, we require that you register your interest with us before accessing the cellar. It’s very easy to register: simply enter your email address below and we’ll put you on the list.

Get Your Wine Library…

When you register below, you’ll also receive 2 great books about wine by top international sommelier Nigel Tollerman:

Wines From the Last Frontier: A Guide to Argentine Winemaking

Everything You’d Ever Care to Know About Wine (and probably a bit more)

…AND a complimentary subscription to The Wine Explorer’s Letter, a members only weekly letter about the world’s greatest wine regions and amazing foreign vintages most Americans never get to taste…

(While our members love our weekly letter, you can always choose to unsubscribe. No hard feelings, we promise.)

To get started, simply register your interest by entering your email address below. Don’t worry -these services are 100% free to Chairman’s Circle members. Registering does not obligate you in any way.

You can also claim a complimentary bottle of one of our best wines when you join the Bonner Private Wine Partnership’s quarterly wine “club.” Again, this is not your average wine club. Let me tell you a little bit about the Partnership…

My name, by the way, is Will Bonner.

Our story begins with a dark, bold red wine found only in a remote mountain valley 5,000 miles away…

It was back in 2006. My father, Oxford Club founder and Chairman’s Circle member Bill Bonner, and I bought a piece of land way up in the foothills of the Andes mountains in Argentina.

Getting there is a journey – first, a seven hour flight to Buenos Aires, then a three hour flight on the mountain town of Salta, then a six hour (if the roads are passable) trek in 4×4 across river beds, peaks, and plateaus… to a place known as the Calchaqui Valley.

It was my father’s retirement dream – the old west landscape reminded him of the cowboy novels he read as a child. This is a place where cowboys still drive herds across the high plains… where women work looms in the early dawn’s light…

…little did we know, it’s also a place where they make one of the highest altitude wines in the world, a dark red vintage so opaque it’s known as ‘black wine’ and unlike anything you’ve ever tasted.

An opaque, near-black, red wine

Sadly, when I returned to the US I couldn’t find this wine anywhere. On the rare occasion you CAN find it, bottles can go for over $500 a piece!

That’s when I had an idea:

if I could just get enough people together to fill a whole shipping container with wine…then we’d be able to bring these fantastic wines to America… many for the first time ever!

So I assembled a team, including…

• Diego Samper, a full-time “wine explorer” to do the legwork of making deals
• Barry Gilbert, a private wine importer in California
• Nigel Tollerman, an internationally recognized sommelier
• Julien Miquel, a retired winemaker from France’s most famous winery

And so was born the Bonner Private Wine Partnership

That’s why the Bonner Private Wine Partnership is not one of those monthly wine clubs that just bombard you with bad wine until you cancel…

All year round, Diego, Barry, and me scour the globe for great wine and making deals directly with vineyards…

As you might assume, this is incredibly time consuming.

Winemakers can be extremely wary of foreigners (especially yankees). They want you to come visit… they want to observe how you taste wine… whether your palate is right… they ask you to long lunches where business is absolutely not to be discussed…

That’s why the Bonner Private Wine Partnership is not one of those monthly wine clubs that just bombard you with bad wine until you cancel…

The Bonner Private Wine Partnership puts out shipments just four times a year (every quarter) directly to your doorstep.

But the club isn’t just about drinking wine either… it’s about adding new adventures and dimensions to your life!

We don’t just taste great wine… we learn about wine, about varietals most wine drinkers will never hear of, about regions known to only a handful of critics, about customs passed down from father to son over hundreds of years… and much more…

Typically, the Bonner Private Wine Partnership is not open to new members year-round. It’s not because we want to be exclusive. It’s simply because the wines we get tend to be extremely limited.

However, because of our reciprocity with the Chairman’s Circle, we do allow members like you to join us at any time.

You’ll not only get access to everything else this letter has promised – Julien’s sommelier service, your ‘cellar,’ and your wine library – but you’ll also receive six great bottles of wine every quarter.

Plus, as part of your first shipment you will receive a complimentary bottle of our most exciting wine…

Simply register your interest by typing in your email address below. We will send you our terms for you to look over. Don’t worry – registering your interest below does not obligate you in any way.