NEW HAUT-MÉDOC, BORDEAUX, ARDÈCHE, AND GAILLAC, WHITES, ROSÉ, BUBBLES PRE-DEPARTURE OFFER.
Today's NEW mid-summer shipment is scheduled for delivery to us in December 2023/January 2024 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 August 28th, or until stocks last. Mixed selections are welcome and freight is free. There are two reds, two whites, two rosés, one sparkling wine, 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. "Gris d'Ardèche" rosé 2022 by the Vignerons of the Ardèche. NEW VINTAGE.
100% Grenache rosé from the high country above the Rhône valley.
Vibrant fruit, black cherry and wild strawberries, lilies, and talcum, while the palate is juicy, dry and irresistibly more-ish.
Drink now to 2026.
Post arrival price will be $24.95. Today's pre-departure price is $19.95
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2. "Les Graviers" ROSÉ 2022 by Château Lastours in Gaillac. NEW TO TOB.
60% Duras (an heirloom variety from Gaillac) and 40% Shiraz. Gaillac is midway between Bordeaux and the Mediterranean.
Powerhouse Gaillac rosé offering cumquat, tea, roses, citrus fruit, marmalade, and notions of caramel, while the palate is bone dry, clean, feather-light, and finishing with fine textured elegance.
Drink now to 2026.
Post arrival price will be $25.95. Today's pre-departure price is $20.95
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3. "Les Graviers" WHITE 2022 by Château Lastours in Gaillac.
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. Today's pre-departure price is $20.95
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4. "L'Enclos de Virginie" Bordeaux red 2020 by JL Thunevin. NEW VINTAGE
100% Merlot, aged in barrels.
Opulent fruit, smoky chocolate notes, cherry jam, toasty oak, and a palate that is big and smooth with silky tannin structure. A straightforwardly delicious wine from one of Bordeaux's most famous winemaking families at work in a stand-out Bordeaux vintage.
Drink now to 2029.
Post arrival price will be $36.95. Today's pre-departure price is $29.95
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5. "Amandier" Chardonnay from the Winemakers of the Ardèche, vintage 2021.
100% Chardonnay. From the Ardèche, high country above the Rhône Valley.
Exquisite finesse, refined but typical Chardonnay fruit, rock melon and white peach, perfectly stitched into the lightest and most subtle barrel fermentation character, while the palate is elegantly medium-bodied, balanced, dry, and dangerously drinkable. Averages a score of 4.0 out of 5 across all vintages, from over 150 individual reviews on wine review app Vivino.
Drink now to 2026.
Post arrival price will be $33.95. Today's pre-departure price is $27.95
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6. "La Méthode" Brut Non Vintage sparkling wine from Château Lastours in Gaillac. NEW to TOB.
100% Mauzac, a traditional white variety of Gaillac.
The most extraordinary sparkling wine from outside of Champagne that I have ever tried. Extrovert nose with woody and herbal notes, banana and grapefruit, cream, lychee, peaches, apple skins, with delicate effervescence, while the palate is tangy, driven, powerful, and dry. Brave and talented winemaking by a star of the modern Gaillac winemaking scene (owner of the property, Louis de Faramond). Should age very well too. Unmissable.
Drink now to 2029.
Post arrival price will be $42.95. Today's pre-departure price is $34.95
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7. Château Bellegrave du Poujeau, vintage 2019, from the Haut-Médoc. Cru Bourgeois since 1932. NEW TO TOB
50% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Cabernet Franc, balance is Merlot.
This is without a doubt the highest quality Haut-Médoc I've ever tasted, let alone imported. Most Haut-Médoc estates are vast but Ch. Bellegrave du Poujeau is a 4-hectare vine-garden, situated right next to legendary neighbours Château La Lagune, and is handmade from the vine to the bottle by proprietor Jean-Pierre Cantelaube. Maybe because 2019 was a lighthouse vintage, or maybe because of the unique geography of Bellegrave du Poujeau and its high proportion of Cabernet Sauvignon, this wine achieves a spectacular balance of complete flavour ripeness with relatively low alcohol levels (12.5% on the label, but 12.26% in the actual lab analysis). The aromatics are quintessential Bordeaux: cassis, mint-chocolate, bay leaves and cigar box, oak and vanilla, but it is the palate that makes this such a genuinely great wine with its tight medium-body, juicy-savoury bite, firm but molten tannins, and a lingering, satisfying drinkability that can only be from Bordeaux. It doesn't cost the Earth, but this will develop wonderfully with age if you can be self-disciplined enough not to drink it in its delectable youth, tempting though that may well be. Classic Claret.
Drink now to 2035+
Post arrival price will be $48.95. Today's pre-departure price is $39.95
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#8. Suggested Mixed Dozen: This suggested mixed dozen contains: two bottles each of wines #1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, plus one bottle each of both wines #6 and 7 (the bubbles and the Bellegrave du Poujeau Haut-Médoc red). Post arrival price for this Suggested Mixed Dozen will be $380.42. Today's pre-departure offer price is $314.40
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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 to get a 10% discount on your first order" 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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>>> Wines from today's Pre-departure Offer (that do not arrive until December 2023/January 2024) 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 August 28th, 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.
