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 $ per bottle because $ x 12 = $ , which is the correct price to pay for it.
There are bottles of red, of white, and 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.
- 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 Petit Mouta Graves Blanc 2021. NEW vintage. 90% Sémillon/10% Sauvignon Blanc blend. What Chablis does for Chardonnay, the Graves district of Bordeaux does for Sémillon/Sauvignon blends, and 2021 was a year that brought this quality into laser-pointed focus. The fruit here is ultra-fresh with kiwi, gooseberry, lemon and lime fruit, lemon sorbet, capsicum and ginger notions, while the palate is dry, clean, high voltage, and long. Usually $28.95 per bottle.
- Château Valmont Corbières rosé 2021. Grenache/Mourvèdre/Shiraz blend. Pale peachy pink, delicate notes of blossom, confectionery, potpourri, clean linen, sea spray, and then a palate that is dry, fresh, and perfectly easy to drink. French summer in a glass. Usually $33.95 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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” 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. 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.
- Domaine La Décelle “Reserve” Côtes-du-Rhône Villages (Valréas) white 2021. Marsanne/Viognier. 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.
How to order.
This works out at $ of wine for today’s special price of $ , which is a discount of %. 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 $ per bottle because $ x 12 = $, 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.