Winter Savings Mixed Dozen

From 60-year-old unirrigated bush vines, this ripe black-fruit-scented Chilean carignan maintains a wonderful freshness and firmness on the palate. Ideal with the fatty cuts of oxtail, shoulder of lamb or pork.

2021 was an outstanding vintage in Chile. Blackcurrant-leaf aromas and gooseberry fruit flavours make this bright, taut sauvignon easy to love, with or without food.

From the fairly newly designated appellation Wine of Origin Cape Town, fanned by cooling breezes which bring freshness to the dark fruits and spice in this Cape Blend comprising 30% of the essential pinotage, with 32% merlot and 38% cabernet sauvignon.

A yin and yang blend. Ripe and fleshy carmenère, 85%, is balanced by the freshness and grip of 15% carignan. Cauquenes is in the warm Maule region and ideal for maturing these two varieties.

Our Wine Champions tasting panel were unanimous in their approval for this aromatic stone-fruited chardonnay from Chile. The panel loved its personality, crisp acidity, subtle smoky note and touch of oak which adds richness.

Attractive blend of 80% merlot for fruit and 20% petit verdot for supporting structure with cedary aroma and plummy palate. It originates from vineyards in Cauquenes, one of the best sub regions of Maule in Chile.

A fiano Wine Champion of 2022, this is a fresher, more mineral example with clean, razor-sharp fruit, and endlessly refreshing. Perfect with a roasted-vegetable salad, or in cooler weather, a creamy pasta dish.

12 months ageing in French oak has enhanced this contemporary expression of Rioja. It is toasty, plump and fruity.

Made from the aglianico grape, which, grown on these volcanic southern slopes, develops a perfumed nose of fig and black-cherry fruit, black pepper, tobacco and violets. A lovely medium-bodied wine with firm tannins and a long finish.

2021 is a superb year in Chile, producing intensely flavoured wines. Cooled by its proximity to the chilly Pacific Ocean, Leyda produces lovely black-cherry scented pinot noir with a fresh and bright palate.perfect for roasted beets with sliced burrata.

Light and delicate Loire Valley chenin that is organic and vegan-friendly to boot.

Bruwer Raats coaxes lovely citrus and stone-fruit flavours from his masterly chenins. This fresh but focused white, unmasked by oak, is a welcome dose of southern summer.