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 $29.99 per bottle because $29.99 x 12 = $359.88 , which is the correct price to pay for it.
There are 12 bottles of red in this suggested mixed dozen. There is one bottle each of all 12 wines.
- Château Palais Cardinal Saint-Émilion Grand Cru red 2019. 23% Cabernet Sauvignon, 6% Cabernet Franc, and balance is Merlot. This is the top wine from Château Palais Cardinal. The fruit is laser focused here in the dark berry spectrum, rich and deep but not at all jammy, fresh and tight with savoury notes of wood smoke, smoked ham and clove-y/oaky spice, while the tannin is forged with the finest tannins, gently gripping, and long. At the full end of medium bodied but so finely structured, tall and statuesque. The liquid embodiment of elegance. Usually $60.95 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- “Terres de Chêne” by the Vignerons of the Ardèche. Cabernet/Shiraz/Merlot blend from the Ardèche, the winemaking wonderland high up and over the hills along the western bank of the Rhône river. Dark berry fruit, mulberries and blueberries, marzipan, and spice, while the palate is smooth, medium-full, and with high drinkability. Usually $24.95 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.
- 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.
- 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.
How to order.
This works out at $438.40 of wine for today’s special price of $359.88 , which is a discount of 17.9%. 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 $29.99 per bottle because $29.99 x 12 = $359.88, 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.
