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Celebrating 15 years!

Since our opening in late summer 1999, we have focused on importing and retailing authentic wines made by growers who feel passionate about their work, land and traditions, growers who highly respect the environment.
 
To celebrate our 15 years in business, we are delighted to offer 10% on wines that truly counted for us*, either because they received rave reviews from the press, have been amongst our best sellers or simply because we feel they particularly represent well what Le Caveau is all about.

We have picked 15; we probably could have picked one hundred, so we can assure you these wines are really special.
 
Here is the first flight, in no particular order; we will email the next wines on offer over the next two weeks:
(*Offer valid until 31st October, or while stocks last)

Alain Brumont, Gros Manseng – Sauvignon Blanc 2013, Pays de Gascogne IGP


Our first wine buying trip in the South West of France, around Easter 2000, felt like Christmas and our birthday had come at once: imagine growers as famous and brilliant as Alain Brumont (Montus), Pascal Verhaeghe (Cedre), Luc de Conti (Tour des Gendres) and Charles Hours (Uroulat) had no importer in Ireland. Needless say, we became their importer on first meeting.

This is one of the wines that we brought back from this trip and it became our best seller between 2001 and 2010. Crisp, intensely flavoured and lengthy, this is a brilliant wine to drink on its own or with numerous dishes, including white flesh fish, roast chicken or salads.


€14.65 now €13.20
 

Bodegas Menade, Rueda DO Verdejo 2013

 

This is a very recent find, and it has gained almost instant popularity, selling very well in our shop (This one has been Charles’ favourite wine in the shop this summer) as well as in restaurants. It featured in John Wilson’s Top 20 Wines for Summer 2014 (Irish Times).

Organic farming, low intervention in the winery and small yields contribute to the concentration of natural flavours and intensity in this wine.
€14.65 now €13.20
 

Domaine Ménard, Cuvée Marine 2013, Pays de Gascogne IGP

 

The other white gem from the South West, this is the wine that took first spot on our best-seller chart from Brumont Gros Manseng-Sauvignon back in 2011 - and has kept it ever since.

Fresh, zippy with gorgeous grapefruit flavours, what we initially thought would be the perfect summer wine turned out to be an all-year favourite.


€11.95 now €10.75
 

Château du Cèdre 2011, Cahors AC

 

Another find from our first South Western buying trip in 2000. Pascal Verhaeghe’s Chateau du Cèdre is rightly regarded as the best producer in Cahors and probably one of the most respected in the whole of France. Tenacious work and experimentation in the vineyards, low intervention in the winery (why mask perfect fruit and great terroir?) and perfectly located vineyard result in an intensely flavoured wine, beautifully structured and with superb balance. Malbec in its most elegant form.


€22.80 now €20.50

Vincent Girardin, Santenay 1er Cru ‘les Gravières’ vieilles vignes 2008

 

When we opened Le Caveau, Vincent had already reached stardom; his fruit-driven and articulate wines had won him numerous awards and prizes. Getting an allocation from him would have been tricky; luckily my brother Hubert Rossignol was Chef de Viticulture there. He helped establishing a contact and eventually our collaboration with Vincent.

Santenay ‘Gravières’ has been one of our best-selling red Burgundies – its smooth, rich fruit, terroir expression and amazing value have always connected well with our customers.

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€31.95 now €28.75
 

We have asked our wonderful Sales Team - Claire O’Boyle-Gallagher, Gary Byrne and Colm McCan - to pick their favourite.

This week we start with Claire (pictured right), who joined us back in March 2005, and have been the pillar of our success in Dublin, Claire’s genuine passion for real wine and work ethics have ensured so many of our wines are available in leading wine shops and restaurants in the Capital today.
 
‘I began working with Le Caveau almost ten years ago, after having being a fan of both the wines and Pascal’s passion for quality, his quest to find wines that are off the beaten track and in some cases, wines that others might write off as being ‘hand-sells.
One wine that encapsulates this very well is the Antonio Camillo ‘Principio’ Ciliegiolo Maremma Rosso DOC. It is the personal project of Antonio Camillo, who is better known as the winemaker for  Poggio Argentiera. It 100% Ciliegiolo, a native and ancient Tuscan varietal that is believed to be either the direct ancestor/offspring of Sangiovese.
The vines are grown in two small vineyards (totalling a mere 5 ha) in the southern Maremma, are about forty years are old and farmed organically. The wine is lightish in color and body (a world away from the blockbuster mold) and bursting with ripe red fruits, floral hints, freshness, minerality and a palate-cleansing astringency that makes for a wonderful foil for rustic, hearty foods.
’ Claire O’Boyle-Gallagher
 
Antonio Camillo ‘Principio’ 2013 Ciliegiolo Maremma Rosso DOC €15.80 now €14.20


Thanks for reading, part 2 will be emailed very soon!
 

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