Master Class Top Shelf Mixed Dozen Special Offer

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 $35.82 per bottle because $35.82 x 12 = $429.84 , which is the correct price to pay for it.

There are 9 bottles of red and 3 of white in this suggested mixed dozen. There is one bottle each of all 12 wines.

1. Domaine Juliette Avril Châteauneuf-du-Pape red 2020. NEW vintage. Grenache/Shiraz/Mourvèdre blend. Screams CNDP!!! Massive cherry jam nose, rich, ripe, dark, deep, and very pure fruit, fruit cake, molasses, marzipan notes, rose petals, and leather, while the palate is very full but firms up through the finish with some seriously good gripping tannins, quite chewy at the end, and some nice smoky mineral notes come through later on the nose too, possibly from the 6 months of maturation in wooden vats used for this wine. Classy, classic, and indulgent comfort-wine. Unadorned CNDP running full bore. Usually 72.95 per bottle.
2. Château Palais Cardinal “La Réserve” Saint-Émilion Grand Cru 2019. The best value Saint-Émilion Grand Cru I’ve ever tasted, flamboyantly turbocharged in the superlative 2019 vintage conditions. Fruit depth, balance, and length. Cabernet Franc/Merlot blend. This is the entry level Saint-Émilion Grand Cru from Palais Cardinal. Usually $45.95 per bottle.
3. Ruhlmann-Schutz “Cuvée Hospices de Strasbourg” Alsace Old Vines Pinot Noir red 2020. 100% Pinot Noir. Seriously classy Pinot Noir of depth and elegance. There are notes of cedar and oak, smoke and tar, truffles and rocks, while the palate is tall and stately, balanced and long, with very fine tannin running down its backbone. Usually $48.95 per bottle.
4. 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.
5. La Cave de Roquebrun “Les Fiefs d’Aupenac” Saint-Chinian-Roquebrun RED 2019. NEW vintage. 60% Shiraz, 20% Grenache, 20% Mourvèdre. Bam! Smoky, meaty, earthy, dense and dark fruit, intense but channeled, mint chocolate notes, herbs and stones, oak and crispy bacon fat, while the palate is rich and sappy with very fine tannin by the shovel load, mouth-coating, gripping length. Usually $48.95 per bottle.
6. Domaine Juliette Avril “Cuvée Maïlys” Côtes-du-Rhône-Villages/Cairanne red 2019. Grenache/Shiraz/Mourvèdre. Complete bombshell! Power and depth, coruscating complexity, masses of fruit but some savoury earthy notes too, and the palate is epic-full-bodied/herculean but again ripped with tannin and very nicely firm through the finish. Usually $38.95 per bottle.
7. La Cave de Roquebrun “La Grange des Combes” 2019 from Roquebrun. Shiraz/Grenache/Mourvèdre. The fruit here is gorged with plums and cocoa, licorice, blackberry jam, mulberries, cola and jubes, while the palate is full and soft with some feather light tannins that build very gently to a fine and firm polish. Won a trophy at the International Wine Challenge last year. Usually $41.95 per bottle.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. Ruhlmann-Schutz “Cuvée Hospices de Strasbourg” Alsace Old Vine Riesling 2019. 100% Riesling. Exceptional Riesling of epic and quintessential aromatics with notions of lime marmalade, lemon tart, gunpowder smoke, rose petals, ginger, lemon grass, five spice, and hot cross buns, and yet the party is really on the palate where high voltage juiciness courses through every nerve, it’s ultra dry and ultra long with very serious cellar potential too. Usually $48.95 per bottle.
11. La Cave de Roquebrun “Les Fiefs d’Aupenac” Saint-Chinian-Roquebrun WHITE 2020. 85% Rousanne, 15% Grenache Blanc. Mind bogglingly beautiful white with explosive aromatic attractiveness, fruits, flowers, and stone, barrel ferment smoky oak, and then a palate of precise and crystalline perfection worthy of a great white Burgundy from Puligny Montrachet, just for a fifth of the price. Usually $48.95 per bottle.
12. Ruhlmann-Schutz “Cuvée Jean-Charles” Riesling 2020. NEW vintage. 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.

How to order.

This works out at $536.40 of wine for today’s special price of $429.84 , which is a discount of 19.9%. 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 $35.82 per bottle because $35.82 x 12 = $429.84, 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.