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The Underground Bottle Shop A small shop featuring off the beaten path,interesting wines, hard ciders, and spirits from all over the world.

Permanently closed.

02/02/2025

That’s a wrap! We’re closed. Thanks to everyone for the support over the years. We wish it didn’t have to end.

We know we’ll be leaving a void in town. But good wine isn’t far away. Many of you don’t know, but the underground was the sister store to our original shop called located in ithaca. The underground was an offshoot of this store with an almost identical concept but a bit smaller.

If you want to keep the good wine flowing, drop them a line.

☮️❤️🍷

01/25/2025

UPDATE: ALL SHELVING IS SOLD

As things are coming to a close, we’ve put some of our shelving and shop fixtures up for sale.

We have 2 French oak barrels for $100 each. FCFS.

Our beverage air marketeer merchandising fridge is also available. We paid about $3000 after tax and shipping. Hoping to get $2000 for it.

We’ve still got some bottles of wine, cider, spirits and canned cocktails left as well. Stop in from 11-7 today and take a look. We’ll be closed Sunday and Monday and our last day open will be the 31st or earlier.

01/22/2025

We’re still here and we still have a handful of Underground staples for the taking, as we start to really wind things down these next two weeks. Cool spirits, local wines and ciders, crispy values, and Tip tops - lots of Tip tops. Big thanks to everyone who has already come by to send us off with your well wishes and words of encouragement. We’re feelin the love on our way out! Hours this week are 11-7, weds, Thurs, Fri +sat. Closed sun/mon.

01/14/2025

You all put a considerable dent in our remaining inventory this past week, but we still have a lot of goodies to snag up before it’s too late! Shoot us a message if you’d like us to put anything aside. We’re here 11-7 Tues - sat.

01/06/2025

It is with a heavy heart and a great deal of mixed emotions that we have to officially announce the Underground Bottle Shop will be closing its doors in the coming weeks of January.

As you can imagine, this decision has been an extremely difficult one. For the past eight years, we’ve been able to cultivate something really special here in Auburn, and letting it go is a reality we’ve all been struggling with as we’ve reached this last chapter of the shop.

While we will always be able to look back and view the shop as a success, the writing has admittedly been on the wall for a little while now. Because of our deep appreciation and meaningful connection with our customer base, the amazing community here in Auburn, and the greater Finger Lakes wine scene as a whole, we’ve tried to really dig in and give it another go this past year, but ultimately know it’s time to call it what it is.

I’d like to first and foremost give a huge shoutout to the staff. Alison has played an integral role in helping build the business with me for the past five years, and without Carter in the mix for the past two, things would not have run as smoothly around here. It’s been a great joy of mine to work alongside such like-minded and passionate people over the years at Underground. I think we were able to curate such a fun and welcoming vibe, and the ease, understanding, and professional attitude to which we’ve gone about things is something I’ve never taken for granted.

Thank you to all of our sales representatives and distributor/import partners. We worked hard to find the producers and wines that really mattered to us, and having access to such dynamic portfolios and dedicated sales teams always made our jobs easier in that sense. Many of you have become friends, and the afternoons spent tasting, talking, and learning from each other will be greatly missed.

To our local growers, wine and cidermakers - thank you for doing what you do. It’s been an honor to represent you and have the ability to share so many of your stories and guide people towards the products that make our region so unique.

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12/19/2024

Champagne, Champagne, Champagne. We’re popping the good stuff tomorrow night with our peeps from and from 5:00-7:00. Lots of other fun non-Champagne bubblies will be flowing behind the bar as well - pet nat, grower Cava and more. Won’t you join us?

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12/06/2024

What more can be said about the wines of Marcel Lapierre that hasn’t been said already? Simply put - nothing compares.

Small quantities of 2023 Morgon (Cuvee S + Cuvée N) just arrived this afternoon. Might do a little offer if we’re feeling cute..

11/23/2024

Our library offer from was a smash. Most of the wines are pre-sold, but we still have a few goodies available, like mags of 2014 zin and a few single-vineyard cabs going back just as far. If you’re looking to elevate the California vibe at the table this holiday, these undiscovered Sonoma gems will certainly get it done.

11/20/2024

The look you get when the nouveaus are here but you have to wait another day until you can open them.

Join us tomorrow for our annual pre-Thanksgiving Beaujolais nouveau bash as we taste the incoming 2024s from and . 3:00-7:00 p.m.

We typically sell through our nouveau allotment within the first few days of release, so act fast (and come taste) if you want in!

11/15/2024

Elderberry sauce > cranberry sauce.

The long awaited return of the one and only Elder Pomme from . Foraged apples, foraged elderberry, pure Hudson Valley. Brisk, tart, featherweight - this is your Thanksgiving wild card. The “other” Big Pink.

11/13/2024

Not your parents GSM. does it again. Taking your red blend expectations to new levels. This is the way.

11/08/2024

After a string of consecutive producer spotlights in France and Italy, we’re keeping things local for tonight’s tasting with some fantastic new wines from around the Finger Lakes. We hope you can join us!

5:00-7:00 pm. Tasting includes:

2022 Seyval Blanc pet nat

2021 Chardonnay

2023 Cabernet Sauvignon/Syrah

2023 Nosedive Port

10/31/2024

Happy Halloween! This Friday’s tasting is shaping up to be one for the books. We’re welcoming in our bud Peter from Alain Junguenet Selections, to pour an absolutely bonkers lineup from Mas de Boislauzon, including two Chateauneuf-du-Papes!

For lovers of the southern Rhône, Mas de Boislauzon has it all. Six generations of winemaking, organically farmed old-vines spread out over a number of different terroirs in Chateauneuf and Côtes du Rhône, and a hyper-focused portfolio of wines that range from the everyday to the exceptional.

Our lineup will include the rare Chateauneuf-du-Pape blanc, the lovable, crushable “La Chaussynette” rouge, a super serious Côtes du Rhône made from 70-year-old vines, and the heavenly masterpiece that is the Famile Chaussy Chateauneuf.

Come start your November with a bang. We’re popping the good stuff!

10/23/2024

We’ve got another phenomenal Italian producer to introduce you to this Friday! From 5:00-7:00 we’ll be pouring three wines from Tiberio, an exciting young winery in Abruzzo doing amazing work with their old-vine Trebbiano and Montepulciano.

With the exception of a few legendary estates like Valentini and Emidio Pepe, Abruzzo has long suffered a reputation for producing only cheap, inoffensive Montepulciano wines in bulk. Christiana Tiberio and her brother Antonio represent a new wave of ambitious growers and winemakers helping to push the quality level forward here.

The lineup will include the flagship Trebbiano, a super delish Cerasuolo (one of our fave OG categories for chillable red) and the always impressive Montepulciano bottling.

Come by and check out the future of Abruzzo with us. These are the real deal!

10/17/2024

This Fridays tasting will see us heading to the far north-eastern reaches of Italy to highlight the wines of i Clivi, a small estate in Friuli, working organically with ancient, indigenous grapes and non-interventionist winemaking. The wines produced here are subtle, energetic, and extremely versatile. We can’t wait to pour them for you!

The tasting includes the sparkling Ribolla Gialla, their flagship Friulano, and two quintessential fall reds - Schioppettino and Cabernet Franc.

We kick things off at 5. Get the weekend started right with us!

09/29/2024

Beyond Pinot Noir! New fall favorites from Oregon’s Evening Land Vineyards 🌲 🌲 🌲

Raj and Sashi (of Domaine de la Côte/Sandhi fame) have their Pinot Noir totally dialed in at Seven Springs, one of Oregons most coveted and historic vineyards in the Eola-Amity Hills, but their work with the site’s old vine-Chardonnay and Gamay cannot be overlooked either. The vineyard was established in the mid 80’s under the direction of Burgundian legend Dominique Lafon, and the wines from here are steeped in a bit of that same elegant, old-world charm. We’re excited to get them in your glass soon. Email offer incoming 🍷 📧

09/15/2024

It’s been an interesting week to be a wine shop in Auburn…

By now many of you have seen or been followed by . What started as a bogus looking page in the first place, with stock internet and AI imaging, has now just blatantly begun to take and post numerous images from our own instagram page. Thank you to everyone who has brought this to our attention over the past number of days.

We thought we had enough people initially report the page, and it looked like it was temporarily shut down, but this thing/scam/bot? doesn’t seem to want to go away. None of it makes much sense, but it’s been pretty darn annoying as you can all imagine.

We kindly ask that if you can access the page, to please report it as fraudulent and that it’s trying to impersonate our own page. We’d very much like to get back to posting our own content rather than deal with this nonsense, but this is where we’re at. We greatly appreciate it!

08/28/2024

It’s Yann season out here.

New (and v limited) arrivals from our favorite flat top in Fleurie, . First access is through our email offer, dropping tomorrow morning. Click the buttons, buy the wine, take the ride.

Address

29 E Genesee Street
Auburn, NY
13021

Telephone

+13152525696

Website

http://www.undergroundbottleshop.com/

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