CHAMPAGNE, PETIT CHABLIS, ROSÉ, PESSAC LÉOGNAN, GRAVES BLANC, BORDEAUX SUPÉRIEUR PRE-DEPARTURE OFFER.
I am now looking ahead to Spring and that's why today’s new shipment is tailored for the return of warmer weather. These selections are due for arrival into Australia in October/November (hence the focus on Champagne, whites, and rosé) at which point their prices will rise over 20% above what you can get them for here today - if any remain. This might well also be the second last - or even the last - new shipment of 2023 as we avoid new shipments that arrive in December or January. These wines will only be available on our website at these Pre-departure Offer prices until midnight tomorrow evening, Monday June 12th, or until stocks last. Mixed selections are welcome and freight is free. There are two Champagnes (one Blanc de Blancs and one extremely rare Pinot Blanc), three whites (Petit Chablis, Graves Blanc, and Pessac-Léognan), one Bordeaux rosé, one red Bordeaux Supérieur, 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 Palais Cardinal “La Rose de Palais Cardinal” Bordeaux rosé 2022.
Merlot/Cabernet Sauvignon.
This is the new vintage of the most ravishingly popular rosé we have ever imported. Pale copper-pink, feather-light, softly perfumed, with fragrant notes of wild strawberry, talcum, and blackcurrant, while the palate is dry, balanced, and dangerously drinkable.
Drink now to 2024.
Post-arrival price will be $21.95 per bottle. Today's pre-departure price is $17.95.
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2. Château Petit Mouta Graves Blanc 2022. NEW VINTAGE.
90% Sémillon, 10% Sauvignon Blanc. From the village of Mazères where I began my winemaking apprenticeship in 1998.
2022 saw the return of an exoticly ripe streak to this crisp dry white that brings about the magical synthesis of the edgy backbone from the Sauvignon with the generous fruit of the Sémillon. Light as a feather but with local Graves authenticity and depth of flavour. A pillar of our portfolio.
Drink now to 2027.
Post-arrival price will be $26.95 per bottle. Today's pre-departure price is $21.95.
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3. Château Saint-Elme Bordeaux Supérieur red 2020. NEW VINTAGE.
5% Cabernet Franc, 95% Merlot.
The only red in today's shipment and it's a benchmark Bordeaux crowd-pleaser with lashings of dark fruit, blackberry jam and spicy oak, while the palate is at the full end of medium-bodied, smooth and very easy to drink.
Drink now to 2027.
Post-arrival price will be $27.95 per bottle. Today's pre-departure price is $22.95.
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4. Bovier et Fils Petit Chablis 2022. NEW TO TOB.
100% Chardonnay (like all Chablis).
Limpid white gold, jubilant Chardonnay fruit, delicate and pure, ethereal white peach, a touch of caramel and lemon tart, maritime hints, floral muskiness, lanolin, chalk/minerality, and then a really racy palate, dry, clean, and light, with juicy acidity, cleansing and long.
Drink now to 2027.
Post-arrival price will be $48.95 per bottle. Today's pre-departure price is $39.95.
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5. Château Baret Pessac-Léognan white 2019. NEW TO TOB.
100% Sauvignon Blanc. Pessac-Léognan is home to Bordeaux juggernauts such as Château Haut-Brion and Ch. Smith Haut Lafitte and yet the area still maintains an aura of mystery. Pessac-Léognan makes Bordeaux's greatest dry white wines by a country mile and they are some of the best in the world. Full barrel ferment.
Limpid clarity, perfect green-gold - not a skerrick of aged colour. Pristine, spectacular aromatic expression, freshness that sings from the glass with operatic intensity, exotic and complex, while the palate is racy, edgy, electric. Combines pointy-toed lightness with chalky tension and palate seriousness, finely balanced at 12.5%. Extremely good cellar potential. Spectacular wine and a bargain. Highly recommended. Imagine Sancerre meets great white Burgundy.
Drink now to 2033.
Post-arrival price will be $54.95 per bottle. Today's pre-departure price is $44.95.
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6. Champagne Yves Louvet "Blanche de Marie" Blanc de Blancs Brut NV. NEW TO TOB.
100% Chardonnay. Yves Louvet is an entirely family-owned estate entering its fifth generation, based in the hamlet of Tauxières-Mutry on the Montagne de Reims, epicentre of Champagne growers for centuries, led by current winemaker Frédéric Louvet, and his wife and son.
Benchmark Blanc de Blancs with savoury, mineral, gently floral nose, lemon tart, brioche, and notions of maritime air, while the palate is tight and vibrating with very fine bubbles, crispy acidity, dry, tangy, and long.
Drink now to 2028.
Post-arrival price will be $72.95 per bottle. Today's pre-departure price is $59.95.
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7. Champagne Yves Louvet "L'Arum d'Henriette" Premier Cru Extra Brut NV. NEW TO TOB.
100% Pinot Blanc. Did you know that Pinot Blanc is one of the official white grape varieties of Champagne? Like Chardonnay, Pinot Blanc also gives Champagnes of stunning aromatic expression and finesse, especially when grown on Premier Cru sites like this one is.
There's a mystical elusiveness to the nose which shimmers between rich lemon tart fruit and a very delicate floral perfume that is more mineral than fruity, with hints of jasmine, lily, and talcum, while the palate is Extra Brut, which means seriously dry and racy, vivacious and long, with petite effervescence that crackles on the tongue.
Drink now to 2030+
Post-arrival price will be $132.95 per bottle. Only 120 bottles available. Today's pre-departure price is $109.95.
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#8. Suggested Mixed Dozen: This suggested mixed dozen contains: 3 bottles each of wines #1 and #2 (the rosé and Graves Blanc), 2 bottles each of wines #3 and #4 (the red Bordeaux Supérieur and the Petit Chablis), and one each of wines #5 and #6 (the Ch. Baret Pessac-Léognan and the Blanc de Blancs "Blanche de Marie" Champagne). Post arrival price for this Suggested Mixed Dozen will be $423.98. Today's pre-departure offer price is $349.92.
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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.
>>> Please let us know your delivery instructions for Australia Post/Aramex. Delivery instructions might, for example, be something like "if nobody home leave at front door." The website will not let you check out until you have put in a delivery instruction. If there are no instructions, put “no instructions,” or “take to Post Office for me to collect from there.”
>>> 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 October/November 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 June 12th, or until stocks last.
And please let me know if I can be of any further assistance.
Thank you for your support, on behalf of all the team at The Other Bordeaux,
Tom.
