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 $41.66 per bottle because $41.66 x 12 = $499.92 , which is the correct price to pay for it.
There are 10 bottles of red and two of white in this suggested mixed dozen. There is one bottle each of all 12 wines.
- Château Lapelletrie Saint-Émilion Grand Cru red 2018. NEW vintage. 10% Cabernet Franc, and balance is Merlot. From the high limestone plateau above the village of Saint-Émilion. The new vintage of Lapelletrie absolutely smashes it out of the park and is pretty much as close to perfection as a young wine can get. The aromatics jump out of the glass: powerful and pure, that earthy old school claret note again, graphite, oak, dark and intense blackberry, blueberry, and cassis, while the palate is gorgeously suave, juicy and elegant, mouth-filling but clean and finely textured. At the medium end of full-bodied but utterly satisfying to drink. An incredibly vivacious young wine with a long life ahead of it. Usually $66.95 per bottle.
- Château Marzy Pomerol 2018, north-west of Saint-Émilion. 20% Cabernet Franc and 80% Merlot. Amazing finesse, perfume lift, oaky creaminess, licorice, mintiness, complexity, flashes of the wild 2017 but more fruit in this new vintage (and more integrated oak), while the palate is full, very smooth, elegant, and long, laying down fine tannins with every sip, building to chewiness. The complete Pomerol package. Like a very big red Burgundy. Powerful yet very stylish and mesmerising to contemplate and appreciate. Usually $84.95 per bottle.
- “Les Parcelles” Saint-Joseph red by Bruyère et David, vintage 2020. 100% pure Shiraz. Bam! Smoky, meaty, spicy, plush fruit, savoury nuances, earthy warmth, forest floor, powdered cocoa, crispy bacon, while the palate is lush, medium full with fine tannin, breadth and length. Classy artisan Saint-Joseph from an outstanding block of vines right next to the Rhône river. A heavenly glass of quintessential Rhône red. Usually $72.95 per bottle.
- Lavau Gigondas red 2019. 50% Grenache, 40% Shiraz, 10% Mourvèdre. One sniff and taste of this Gigondas and I caved in completely: roast figs, saucisson, thyme and rosemary, sweet ripe plums, rose petals, marmalade, fresh smooshed blackberries, polished antique furniture, oak and cigars, then a palate that is full but refined, firm with a tannin backbone, mouth-coating, satisfying, and long. Total doozy of a wine and the heart and soul of Gigondas.
Drink now to 2030++ - Château Les Graves de Viaud “Réserve” from the Côtes de Bourg (Bordeaux) 2016. 10% Cabernet Sauvignon, and balance is Merlot. 18+ months in barrel. Truly epic Bordeaux from a classic vintage, the kind of year when Mother Nature smiled benevolently and at length and grapes could be left out in the fading summer warmth deep into Autumn to accumulate ever more profound levels of expression, body, and power. The result here is herculean, the fruit’s innate qualities armoured with the benefits of 18 months in barrel. It was a year when the vineyard’s strengths could stand up to, and benefit from, any degree of maturation that was offered to it and this one enjoyed the whole hog. The aromatics are turned up loud, the palate immense. A wine for the ages and a bargain when compared to the best and most expensive that Bordeaux has to offer. Usually $48.95 per bottle.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Domaine La Décelle “Réserve” RED Côtes-du-Rhône-Villages/Valréas rouge 2019. 50/50 Shiraz/Grenache blend. Valréas is famed for the elegance of its wines which is clear to taste in this red that brings together blockbuster fruit depth, serious flesh and texture, and yet a line of tannin and acidity that gives an overall impression of graceful balance. 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 “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.
- 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.
How to order.
This works out at $644.40 of wine for today’s special price of $499.92 , which is a discount of 22.4%. 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 $41.66 per bottle because $41.66 x 12 = $499.92, 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.
