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 $27.4 per bottle because $27.4 x 12 = $328.8, which is the correct price to pay for it.
There are 9 bottles of red, two of white, and one of rosé in this suggested mixed dozen. There is one bottle each of all 12 wines.
- 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. Usually $45.95 per bottle.
- Château Maucoil Côtes-du-Rhône Villages 2021. Grenache/Shiraz/Carignan blend. From a vineyard adjacent to Maucoil’s Châteauneuf-du-Pape holdings. This is aromatically a very dynamic wine with flashy red fruit perfume, sparks of citrus peel and spice, pomegranate, cranberries and blackberry jam, licorice, and earthiness, while the palate is full but fresh and fine. Normally $36.95 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. $41.95 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.
- Vignerons of the Ardèche “Frigoule” Shiraz 2020. Benchmark Ardèche Shiraz with deep and mellow blackberry fruit, subtle oak and tobacco notes, and then a palate that is full and firm. Usually $30.95 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. 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 “Amandier” Chardonnay 2020. Barrel ferment aromatic punch, toasted brioche, cheesecake, hazelnut and oak notes, vanilla pod, gunpowder smoke, and then a palate that is dynamic, high voltage, dry, compellingly fresh and long. Incredible Burgundy style for a song! Usually $33.95 per bottle.
- Domaine La Décelle “Reserve” Côtes-du-Rhône Villages (Valréas) white 2021. Gorgeous perfume with apricots, peach, mango, lemon sherbet, barrel ferment smokiness, oak and coconut, exotic and so fresh and complex. Usually $32.95 per bottle.
- Château Palais Cardinal “La Rose de Palais Cardinal” Bordeaux rosé 2021.
It’s incredibly rare to find a rosé as pristine and delicate as this. In warmer years Bordeaux rosé can end up a bit broad and hot but 2021 was perfect for the style and this is 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 $389.4 of wine for today’s special price of $328.8, which is a discount of 15.5%. 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 $27.4 per bottle because $27.4 x 12 = $328.8, 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.