This isn’t an adage per se, but it should be.

Each of us at World Wine thinks that our respective cellars are among the most rewarding aspects of our lives and thankfully you need not break the bank to start your own.

The red and white wines from Burgundy are a core part of many wine collections - and with good reason. But affordable, quality, cellarable Burgundy - well, that's where we come in. 

Purchase three of each of these four wines and earn a 10% discount:

• 2011 William Fevre Petit Chablis
• 2011 Daniel Dampt Chablis AC
• 2010 Vincent Girardin Bourgogne Rouge
• 2010 Pavelot Savigny les Beaune

Normally $432.00

Special price $388.80 including delivery and insurance

The two white and two red selections above are not from the most famous villages or highly regarded crus.

If they were, they’d be three to four times the price.

These are Burgundian bargains— wines with the character and structure to age gracefully. How do we know? We practice what we preach:

• The hand-harvested grapes and modest oak usage makes for consistent superb quality of the wines from Wiliam Fevre.
• The Daniel Dampt Chablis is a classically styled, bone dry Chablis which has pure fresh racy apple flavours and a crisp minerally finish. Delightful. A 2005 we tried last year was arguably still too young to drink.
• The wines from Girdarin have always been really complex and really fine, good intensity in the finish, good value wines that have been an entry-level cellar backbone - we are building a vertical of the Rouge dating back to 2003.
• And the Pavelot is indisputably one of the great Red Burgundy bargains. Plush red fruits and cherry perfumes with wonderful length and aristocratic richness. 

When you pour these beauties for company in a few years time, your patience will be duly rewarded and you can pass on your own wisdom about cellaring fine wine.

Each of the wines above is fine to drink now - though each will benefit from a year or several of careful cellaring.

Buy the Burgundy Starter Cellar here for just $388.80, or 'Reply' to this email with your order and we'll contact you for payment and delivery details.