First Refusal on Rare Casks
Priority access to newly acquired single-estate Bas-Armagnac casks and micro-cuvées from the Montagne de Reims, before any release is offered to newer members.
Dues & Privileges
Two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars a year, and the cellar opens.
One membership. No markups, no tiers of wine to upgrade through, no minimum spend. Your dues cover the Champagne, the still wines, the allocation rights, and your seat at the table.
Included
Four caisses a year
Six to twelve bottles per quarter, shipped in standard 750 ml format: Auguste Rèmes premier cru plus still wines chosen by the house — Coteaux Champenois, Burgundy, small-parcel growers.
Cuvée allocation rights
First refusal on the house cuvées — Brut Vitis Sacra and Rosé Brut Marcia — including millésimes and pewter-dressed magnums, before they are offered anywhere else. Magnums are ordered by quote and billed as a supplement.
Armagnac acquisitions
Casks of single-estate Bas-Armagnac bought by the house each year, drawn off at cask strength and allocated to members only.
Four events a year
Two in Miami, two in Champagne. Members attend at cost; the seat itself is yours by right.
The house channel
A private line to Damien and Julien for recommendations, engraved magnums, and visits to the Montagne de Reims.
Cellar services
Bonded storage in Miami, provenance records, and complimentary quarterly shipping in eligible states.
Bespoke pewter commissions
Custom cuvées and magnums for your company, wedding, anniversary or birth — hand-cast pewter labels and ornaments struck to order. By quote only, charged as a supplement to your dues and never included in the quarterly caisse.
Acquisition & Allocation
How casks are bought and bottles are shared out.
01 · Acquisition
Damien and Julien travel to Gascony each year to taste and buy old eaux-de-vie — single-estate Bas-Armagnac, purchased outright by the cask — while the Montagne de Reims parcels are vinified for the house cuvées.
02 · Élevage & bottling
The cask rests in our cellar until it is ready, then is drawn off at cask strength, unfiltered, and dressed in hand-cast pewter under the Aeterna Custodia seal.
03 · Allocation
Each release is divided among members by seniority and standing. Fondateurs are served first, then members by seniority of admission. After twelve continuous months of membership, each member receives his birth-year Armagnac as a gift.
04 · Your 72 hours
You are notified privately with the tasting note, cask details and price. You have 72 hours to take your allocation in whole or in part — declining costs you nothing and never affects your standing.
Long-Term Allocation Program
For members who stay, the rarest bottles are reserved.
Seniority is not only rewarded with gifts. It opens access to casks, editions and coffrets that never reach the waitlist or the open market.
Collector Editions
Numbered releases, vintage magnums and pewter-dressed editions produced in ultra-limited quantities — reserved for members who have completed a decade.
Heritage Coffrets
Direct allocation from historic casks and heritage wooden coffrets engraved with your name, containing bottles that can only be unlocked by fifteen years of standing.
Choose your standing
Three ways in.
Monthly
$200
per month · six-month minimum
- —Full member privileges
- —Quarterly caisse
- —Priority on scarce cuvées
- —One complimentary seat in Champagne
Billed every month. Same privileges, spread across the year. Cancellable after six months.
ApplyAnnual
$2,160
per year · the most chosen
- —Full member privileges
- —Quarterly caisse
- —Priority on scarce cuvées
- —One complimentary seat in Champagne
One settlement a year. Cancellable after six months with pro-rata refund.
ApplyFondateur
By invitation
limited to 40 seats
- —Everything in Annual
- —Your name struck in pewter on a private cuvée
- —Private lunch for four on the Montagne
- —Direct line to Damien and Julien
Referred by the partner network only.
ApplyLoyalty
The longer you stay, the rarer the gift.
Aeterna Custodia marks anniversaries with objects that cannot be bought — only earned through years of membership. Each gift is made to order, engraved with your name, and delivered as a private milestone.
Réserve des 5 Ans
A hand-engraved crystal carafe, personalized with your name, containing an exclusive club blend — a Hors d'Âge or XO aged expressly for Aeterna Custodia.
Gifted at membership anniversary
The Anniversary Magnum
A magnum of vintage Armagnac from a milestone year, or a numbered collector's flask from an ultra-limited release of only 500 pieces produced.
Gifted at membership anniversary
The 15-Year Cask Share
A symbolic share or direct allocation from a micro-cuvée cask that has rested in chai for fifteen years, delivered in a period wooden box engraved with your name.
Gifted at membership anniversary
Sur mesure
Bespoke cuvées, struck in pewter for your occasion.
Beyond the quarterly allocation, members may commission private cuvées and magnums dressed in hand-cast pewter. A company name for a board dinner. A wedding date for the table. A birth year laid down for a child's twenty-first. The wine remains Auguste Rèmes premier cru; the ornament becomes a personal object. Quarterly caisses ship in standard 750 ml format — magnums and bespoke commissions are quoted individually and billed as a supplement.
Corporate
Company name, logo, or motto struck in pewter for client dinners, board gifts, and milestone celebrations. Priced on quote.
Private events
Weddings, anniversaries, births, and family cellars — dated, numbered, and made to order. Magnums available at a supplement.
The process
Send your request to the concierge. We reply with a written quote including the supplement, an atelier proof, and a production calendar.
Logistics & Compliance
One crossing for the cercle, never a parcel from France.
No individual transatlantic shipment is ever made. The bottles travel once, together, and arrive on American soil fully cleared — so nothing you are allocated is ever stopped at a border.
01 · Centralised buffer stock
The cercle's bottles leave Reims as a single consolidated consignment and are held as one global buffer stock — not as five hundred private parcels.
02 · Licensed importer in Florida
Our approved import partner in Florida receives the consignment, clears customs, duties and excise, and holds the stock in bonded, temperature-controlled storage.
03 · Local last-mile, age-verified
Each caisse then leaves on a domestic last-mile delivery, with adult signature and photo-ID age verification required at the door.
First wave — members who validate their adhesion now on the site secure their place on the first batch, with the first box guaranteed to ship within two months.
Payment
Pay however you keep your money.
Traditional rails and digital assets are treated the same at the door. Crypto dues are settled at the rate quoted when you confirm, with a receipt issued in USD for your records.
Cards
Visa, Mastercard, Amex — billed discreetly as CERCLE AUGUSTE REMES.
Bank transfer
ACH and international wire for annual and Fondateur dues.
Crypto, on request
USDC, USDT, BTC and ETH, arranged with the concierge — quoted at confirmation, receipted in USD.
Concierge invoicing
Family office or corporate billing arranged on request.
Ready to be considered?
Applications close whenever the cercle reaches 500 members.
Registre des membres · en direct
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