Description
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 $28.33 per bottle because $28.33 x 12 = $339.96 , which is the correct price to pay for it.
There is one bottle each of all 12 wines. They are all red wines.
- Villa des Quatre Soeurs Margaux 2020. NEW vintage. 45% Cabernet Sauvignon, 45% Merlot, 10% Petit Verdot. 12 months barrel maturation.Quintessential Margaux, high-note cassis/black currant fruit, pure and true Cabernet aromatics, beautiful barrel complexity coming through underneath, but it just gets even more serious on the palate with lithe acidity delivering flurries of powder-fine tannin, billowing and mouth-coating, fresh, firm, and very long. Usually $60.95 per bottle.
- Château La Roseraie Saint-Émilion 2017. NEW to TOB. 85% Merlot, 15% Cabernet Franc. From Saint-Émilion Grand Cru producer Clos des Abbesses. This wine enjoyed a whopping three years of winery cellar maturation before bottling so the fruit is polished to perfection with dark ripeness, blackberry jam, licorice, and claret-like typicity, while the palate is robust, ripped with tannin and acidity, very firm and evocative of a high octane Barolo. Decant and serve at room temperature.Usually $48.95 per bottle.
- Ruhlmann-Schutz “Cuvée Hospices de Strasbourg” Alsace Old Vines Pinot Noir 2020. NEW to TOB. 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 “Les Fiefs d’Aupenac” Saint-Chinian-Roquebrun 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.
- Château Lastours “Sélection” 2019 from Gaillac. NEW vintage.30% Braucol, 30% Shiraz, 15% Cabernet Sauvignon, 15% Duras, 10% Merlot.
Exquisitely burgundian nose, cranberry and dark cherry fruit so reminiscent of Pinot Noir, with woody oak spice notes, dark and assertive, while the palate somehow smashes the drinkability sweet-spot at just 13% alcohol, incredibly elegant but soft and smoochy, utterly gluggable with a dash of serious and firm tannins on the end of the textured and silky finish. Usually $32.95 per bottle. - Château Valmont “Aventure” Corbières 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.
- Thunevin-Calvet “Cuvée Constance” 2019 from Roussillon. 50% Grenache, 30% Shiraz, balance is Carignan. Sultry fruit bomb and a complete crowd pleaser. Comparable in its voluminous/full-bodied/Grenache-based heavenliness to a young-vine Châteauneuf-du-Pape. High octane cherry jam aromatic explosion, fire-roasted marshmallows, and then a palate that is ripe, lush, textured and full. Serve at cellar temperature for a blissful taste experience. Averages 4.1/5 on Vivino from 16 reviews. Usually $30.95 per bottle.
- Vignobles des Quatre Vents “Z” Bordeaux 2018. 30% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Petit Verdot, balance is Merlot. Majestic Bordeaux nose. Extraordinary aromatic depth, very fresh and intense. Sweeping, ample, voluminous palate. Nutty, earthy, chomping tannin. Strong Médoc Cabernet character. Vignobles des Quatre Vents is currently the most exciting property in Margaux. Averages 4.1/5 on Vivino from 45 reviews. Won Gold Medals at the Lyon and Aquitaine/Bordeaux wine shows, and Silver at Paris. Drink now to 2030. Usually $28.95 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.
- Domaine Juliette Avril Côtes-du-Rhône 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 Lastours “Tradition” 2019 from Gaillac. 30% Shiraz, 18% Braucol, 24% Merlot, 18% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Duras. Peppery and plump red berry fruit, strawberry and cherries, with rich whole-bunch-Pinot-like richness, vibrant and yummy, real if gentle tannins, and nailed to the bullseye of medium-bodied elegance. Drink now to 2025. Usually $25.95 per bottle.
- La Cave de Roquebrun “Terres d’Orb” from the Pays d’Oc. 30% Shiraz and 35% each Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot. 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. Drink now to 2025. Usually $22.95 per bottle.
How to order.
This works out at $436.40 of wine for today’s special price of $339.96 , which is a discount of 22.1%. 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 $28.33 per bottle because $28.33 x 12 = $339.96, 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.