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 $39.16 per bottle because $39.16 x 12 = $469.92 , which is the correct price to pay for it.
There are 9 bottles of red and three of white in this suggested mixed dozen. There is one bottle each of all 12 wines.
- Château Maucoil Châteauneuf-du-Pape red 2019 60% Grenache, 15% Shiraz, 15% Mourvèdre, 10% Cinsault.
The absolute essence of Châteauneuf-du-Pape: very bright and youthful nose, cologne, rose water, turkish delight, chocolate, smokey earth, smoldering oak, barbecued bacon, and lashings of fruit, while the palate is extremely tight (given its monstrous volume), with juicy acidity and tightly corseted with some very fine tannin, graphite/slaty oak bite, gripping and claret-like in its savouriness. Usually $84.95 per bottle. - Château Palais Cardinal Saint-Émilion Grand Cru red 2019. 23% Cabernet Sauvignon, 6% Cabernet Franc, and balance is Merlot. This is the top Saint-Émilion Grand Cru wine from 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.
- Lavau Gigondas red 2019. 50% Grenache, 40% Shiraz, 10% Mourvèdre. ne 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++ - 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.
- 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.
- 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 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 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.
- 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 $590.40 of wine for today’s special price of $469.92 , which is a discount of 20.4%. 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 $39.16 per bottle because $39.16 x 12 = $469.92, 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.
