Because this is a mixed dozen, it has to be added to your cart in multiples of 12 bottles. This mixed dozen has been priced at $24.99 per bottle because $24.99 x 12 = $299.88 , which is the correct price to pay for it.
There are 9 bottles of red, 2 of white, and 1 of rosé in this suggested mixed dozen. There is one bottle each of all 12 wines.
- Domaine Juliette Avril Côtes-du-Rhône red 2020. NEW vintage. Grenache/Shiraz/Carignan/Cinsault blend. Rich fruit, chocolate, cherry liqueur, stoney/earthy notes, and a palate that has grip as well as statuesque and fleshy body. Exceptional value and a genuinely opulent quaffer. Usually $26.95 per bottle.
- Château Valmont “Aventure” Corbières red 2019. Carignan/Grenache/Mourvèdre/Shiraz blend. Outstanding Corbières red of punchy aromatic intensity with notes of baking biscuits, plum jam, chocolate, mulberries, smoky oak, and roasting coffee beans, while the palate is full, smooth, and neatly fresh on the finish. Usually $31.95 per bottle.
- Domaine Juliette Avril “Cuvée Léandre” Côtes-du-Rhône-Villages/Plan de Dieu red 2020. Blackberry jam, peppery fruit, lush concentration, suave texture, lashings of tannin on the palate and a really tight, savoury finish. Aromatically focused but a devastatingly serious palate. Usually $32.95 per bottle.
- Ruhlmann-Schutz “Cuvée Mosaïque” Pinot Noir 2020. 100% Pinot Noir. Dark in the glass. The 2019 version of this wine was all strawberries and cream in a very pretty way but this new 2020 oozes blackberry jam, crushed black currant leaf, meaty tar, licorice, savoury Pinot earthiness, fruit depth and power (as opposed to lifted perfume). Palate has wonderful flavour follow-through, lots of feather-light tannin, serious structure, brawny, long. A whole lot of wine for a modest price. Usually $36.95 per bottle.
- Domaine La Décelle “Réserve” Côtes-du-Rhône-Villages (Valréas) RED 2019. Shiraz/Grenache. The fruit is dark, ripe, and rich but also finely fresh and focused. The wine is matured in barrel for 6 months but the impact is subtle with a faint note of wood and tobacco and just a gentle overall impression of maturity and smoothness. A velvet hammer of a wine. Usually $32.95 per bottle.
- La Cave de Roquebrun “Col de l’Orb” 2021. Shiraz, Grenache, Carignan, Mourvèdre. This wine had me at hello: gorgeous and lifted fruit purity, cherry liqueur and cassis, pretty and refined perfume reminiscent of Pinot Noir, and with just enough breadth and volume to make the palate purr. Usually $33.95 per bottle.
- Lavau Côtes-du-Rhône 2020. Grenache/Shiraz. Piercingly bright and precisely ripened fruit, cherry jam and cassis, with notes of woody nuts and charcuterie, while the palate is fleshy, smooth, and balanced. Pitch perfect Côtes-du-Rhône. Usually $27.95 per bottle.
- Vignerons of the Ardèche “Syrah Basalte du Coiron” Shiraz 2020. Purple-black colour in the glass, ripe blackberry jam fruit, dark and intense, no pepper but some nice earthy savouriness, licorice, rock, earth, while the palate has a good crisp crunchiness melded with soft medium-bodied mouthfeel. Classy Shiraz with cool climate flair and style. Long finish and very light tannins. Usually $26.95 per bottle.
- La Cave de Roquebrun “Terres d’Orb” 2020 from the Pays d’Oc. Cabernet/Shiraz. Insanely high value-for-money daily red. Fruit-driven, round and smooth, medium-full elegance. Not an intellectual wine but for straight-up pleasure, authentic local identity and interest, and any-day-of-the-week drinkability, this really nails the style. Usually $22.95 per bottle.
- Château Petit Mouta Graves Blanc 2021. NEW vintage. White wine. 90% Sémillon/10% Sauvignon Blanc blend. What Chablis does for Chardonnay, the Graves district of Bordeaux does for Sémillon/Sauvignon blends, and 2021 was a year that brought this quality into laser-pointed focus. The fruit here is ultra-fresh with kiwi, gooseberry, lemon and lime fruit, lemon sorbet, capsicum and ginger notions, while the palate is dry, clean, high voltage, and long. Usually $28.95 per bottle.
- Ruhlmann-Schutz “Cuvée Jean-Charles” Riesling 2020. NEW vintage. White wine. 100% Riesling. Lemon and lime fruit, hints of lime marmalade, orange blossom, and ginger, clean and fresh, but the palate is dry and seriously good, with zing and tingly mouthfeel that goes on endlessly across the palate. Should age quite nicely over the next 5 years developing richness and depth. Usually $36.95 per bottle.
- Château Palais Cardinal “La Rose de Palais Cardinal” Bordeaux rosé 2021. NEW to TOB.
Rosé wine. Merlot/Cabernet Sauvignon blend.
It’s incredibly rare to find a rosé as pristine and delicate as this: pale pink, feather-light, softly perfumed, with fragrant notes of wild strawberry, talcum, and blackcurrant, while the palate is dry, balanced, and dangerously drinkable. Usually $21.95 per bottle.
How to order.
This works out at $360.40 of wine for today’s special price of $299.88 , which is a discount of 16.8%. Please note that today’s special price only applies to these wines when they are ordered as this suggested mixed dozen.
Because this is a mixed dozen, it has to be added to your cart in multiples of 12. So to order one of these mixed dozens, put 12 bottles in your cart, or to order two of these mixed dozens, put 24 bottles in your cart, etc. This mixed dozen has been priced at $24.99 per bottle because $24.99 x 12 = $299.88, which is the correct price to pay for it.
Please also note that if the stock counter towards the top of this page is showing “792 in stock”, for example, that means that there are 66 mixed dozens available because 792 divided by 12=66. Or if it showed there were “12 in stock” that doesn’t mean that there are 12 of these suggested mixed dozens available but actually just one of them because 12 divided by 12=1, etc. In other words, the stock count figure shows the total number of bottles not the number of dozens available.
