CHÂTEAUNEUF-DU-PAPE, SAINT-ÉMILION GRAND CRU, BORDEAUX, ROUSSILLON, & GAILLAC PRE-DEPARTURE OFFER.
From the decadent potions of Châteauneuf-du-Pape and the mediterranean south to the perfectly poised elegance of Gaillac and Bordeaux in the atlantic west, France covers every possible style of red wine. Today's selections embrace this full gamut of French reds (plus one electric white!) and are are due for arrival into Australia in August/September at which point the prices will rise over 20% above what you can get them for here today - if any remain. These wines will only be available on our website at these Pre-departure Offer prices until midnight tomorrow evening, Monday May 8th, or until stocks last. Mixed selections are welcome and freight is free. There are five reds, one white, and one Suggested Mixed Dozen in today's offer.
>>> If you set up a username and password when you are ready to check out, you will automatically receive a further 10% discount if this is your first order from our website. See below in the How to Order section for the details on this.
Just click on the links to place your order for these wines on the website.
The wines are listed in order of increasing price.
The wines in today's Pre-departure Offer are:
1. Château Lastours "Les Graviers", white wine from Gaillac (between Bordeaux and the Med') from vintage 2022. NEW to TOB.
30% Loin de l'oeil, 30% Sauvignon Blanc, 30% Muscadelle, 10% Mauzac (the historic white varieties of Gaillac).
Vivacious aromatics, simultaneously savoury and exotically fruity with notes of fresh peach juice, grapefruit, and guava, while the palate is dry, balanced, and highly drinkable. Scorching value-for-money with regional identity, integrity, and high winemaking pedigree.
Drink now to 2026.
Post-arrival price will be $25.95 per bottle. Today's pre-departure price is $20.95.
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2. Château Lastours "Tradition", red wine from Gaillac (between Bordeaux and the Med') from vintage 2020. NEW vintage.
30% Shiraz, 20% Braucol, 24% Merlot, 16% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Duras.
Vibrant, dense, and dark ruby colour, intense fruit, black currant jam, caramel and chocolate hints, seductively intriguing, while the palate is perfectly pitched at the full end of medium-bodied, classical, and perfect in the everyday wine-drinking spectrum. Very Burgundian in aromas and general style and fantastic value-for-money.
Drink now to 2026.
Post-arrival price will be $26.95 per bottle. Today's pre-departure price is $21.95.
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3. "L'Enclos de Virginie" Bordeaux red 2018. NEW to TOB.
100% Merlot. 50% aged in new French oak barrels. The Enclos de Virginie is both the name of the cuvée and the single vineyard estate that the wine comes from in Fronsac. Made by the celebrated Thunevin winemaking family.
Banging everyday Bordeaux from an outstanding vintage and with a nice degree of cellar-aged character starting to show. Mulberry and blackberry jam fruit, licorice and woodsmoke, pencil shavings and moroccan leather, while the palate is at the elegant end of full-bodied, textured and firm with gentle tannins that are mellowing nicely into middle age. Scored 92/100 by US über-critic James Suckling.
Drink now to 2028.
Post-arrival price will be $36.95 per bottle. Today's pre-departure price is $29.95.
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4. Domaine Thunevin-Calvet "L'Amourette" red wine from the Côtes du Roussillon Villages, vintage 2019. NEW to TOB.
60% Mourvèdre, 40% Grenache. Grown on flint-covered terraces overlooking the Mediterranean near to Maury. "Amourette" is a herb that grows wild in the vineyards of Maury.
Very ripe, powerful, and fruit-driven but dignified and nuanced with cheeky notes of cherries, blackberry, turkish delight, marzipan and fruit cake, while the palate is full-bodied, lavish in its generosity but pulls tight at the end with some serious grape tannin that keeps the finish savoury and food-friendly. Indulgent and very satisfying crowd-pleaser. Scored 93/100 by Rhône and Mediterranean expert Jeb Dunnuck.
Drink now to 2029.
Post-arrival price will be $39.95 per bottle. Today's pre-departure price is $32.95.
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5. Château Palais Cardinal "Grand Vin" Saint-Émilion Grand Cru 2019.
23% Cabernet Sauvignon, 6% Cabernet Franc, and balance is Merlot. From the deep sandy alluvial soils and gravels between the village of Saint-Émilion and the river Dordogne.
This is the top wine from Château 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. Averages a score of 4.0 out of 5 across all vintages, from 1013 individual reviews on wine review app Vivino.
Drink now to 2035+
Post-arrival price will be $55.95 per bottle. Today's pre-departure price is $45.95.
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6. Château Maucoil Châteauneuf-du-Pape red 2020. NEW vintage.
60% Grenache, 15% Shiraz, 15% Mourvèdre, 10% Cinsault.
Guttural CNDP, muscular, pungently aromatic, with luscious fruit density. So boisterous in its youth that it's quite hard to pin down the nose that coruscates wildly between lashings of fruit weaving in and out of a dense halo of herbal, earthy, and woody perfumes, natural and expressive. Its body floods the mouth, full in breadth and depth, luscious and deep like velvet, smooth but swarthy, wild around the edges, and firm in its finish. A very big red from France's ultimate full-bodied capital. A beautiful estate up on the plateau-slopes of CNDP and well worth a visit if you're ever there. A magic spot and an unforgettable wine. Averages a score of 4.2 out of 5 across all vintages, from 5614 individual reviews on wine review app Vivino.
Drink now to 2035++
Post-arrival price will be $84.95 per bottle. Today's pre-departure price is $69.95.
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#7. Suggested Mixed Dozen: This suggested mixed dozen contains: 3 bottles each of wines #1 and #2 (Ch. Lastours white and red), 2 bottles each of wines #3 and #4 (L'Enclos/BDX and L'Amourette/Roussillon), and one each of wines #5 and #6 (Ch. Palais Cardinal/SEGC and Ch. Maucoil/CNDP). Post arrival price for this Suggested Mixed Dozen will be $448.18. Today's pre-departure offer price is $349.80.
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Please note this is just a suggested mixed dozen and you are welcome to make your own mixed dozen selection via the website.
How to Order:
>>> Just click on the links and lock in your order straight from my website. Check out is with any major credit cards (Visa, Master, Amex) using the Stripe/credit card option, or PayPal. Mixed selections are welcome and freight is free.
>>> *If you create an account when you are ready to check out, you will automatically receive a 10% discount if this is your first order from our website. To get the 10% discount, when you are entering your billing details you must tick the "create an account" box and come up with a password. If you check out by PayPal you will see the 10% discount deducted from the total before you complete the transaction. However, if you checkout via the Credit card (Stripe) option then the 10% discount is taken off at the moment of payment itself, i.e. after you click on the "Place Order" button. So if you want to see the 10% discount applied BEFORE you complete the transaction but you don't have a PayPal account, remember that you can check out via PayPal as a guest (i.e. without setting up a PayPal account, just using the PayPal site as a credit card terminal).
>>>12 bottles is the minimum order.
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>>> You must also confirm that you are over 18-years-old to check out.
>>> Wines from today's Pre-departure Offer (that do not arrive until August/September 2023) cannot be ordered in conjunction with wines from other pages of the website that are ready for immediate dispatch.
>>> These wines will only be available on the website at these Pre-departure Offer prices until midnight tomorrow evening, Monday May 8th, or until stocks last.
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Thank you for your support, on behalf of all the team at The Other Bordeaux,
Tom.
