The Spectator Christmas Case

The Spectator Christmas Case

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The Spectator Christmas Case

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This delicious selection of wines has been brought to you by our Buying Director, Mark Pardoe MW, and The Spectator’s very own Simon Hoggart.  Together they have selected five table wines (there are two bottles each in the case) plus single bottles of a fine, fizzing champagne and an excellent port. This brilliant dozen has been reduced to under £200, a saving on list prices of £66.

Offer is limited to 300 cases and subject to availability. Orders must be received by 18th December for delivery in time for Christmas and by 24th December for delivery in time for New Year’s Eve.

The Wines:

Our Champagne is a non-vintage from Gardet Brut Reserve. This is roughly one-third Pinot Meunier, one-third Pinot Noir and one-third Chardonnay, with a fair splash of older oak-aged wine, which gives it extra biscuity depth. This is drinking well now, but will also improve over the next few years, if you can keep your twitching hands away from the cork. There’s £6.50 off the list price.

The everyday drinking white is an Albarino, one of the great grapes of Spain. Bone dry, yet slightly scented, pineapple and spices, it has subtlety and finesse, remarkable for wine that is being sold under under £9, or £3 off the list price. A lovely aperitif or with a seafood starter.

Our next choice is a very classy white Burgundy, a 2010 Pouilly-Fuisse Terroir de Vergisson, that normally sells for £27 but here has been reduced by £6.75 a bottle Our glugging red is a Chianti Riserva from Corliano, made in the magnificent year of 2009. It is reduced by £3.75. Tuscan wines just go on getting better and better, and I know you will enjoy this rich, fruit-filled number with its smack of damsons and sour cherries.


St Joseph from the northern Rhône can be slightly thin for my taste, though not this rich, dark, musky, luscious 2010 from the celebrated J-L Chave. The Chinese are now catching on to Rhone wines, so prices can only rise, which makes this £6 a bottle reduction all the more terrific.

For claret fans we have a 2004 Grand Cru St Emilion, nine years maturing, reduced by £6.75. What is not to like here? Merlot is ripe and soft and velvety, and here the tannins have beautifully lost their edge. Open this a couple of hours before you drink, decant it, and it will turn an ordinary traditional Christmas dinner into something quite exceptional.

Why don’t we drink more port? It is amazing value. The William Pickering 20-year-old tawny may be non-vintage but it is utterly delicious, smooth, perfumed, stylish, absolutely perfect with pudding or with cheese. Or just on its own.

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This delicious selection of wines has been brought to you by our Buying Director, Mark Pardoe MW, and The Spectator’s very own Simon Hoggart.  Together they have selected five table wines (there are two bottles each in the case) plus single bottles of a fine, fizzing champagne and an excellent port. This brilliant dozen has been reduced to under £200, a saving on list prices of £66.

Offer is limited to 300 cases and subject to availability. Orders must be received by 18th December for delivery in time for Christmas and by 24th December for delivery in time for New Year’s Eve.

The Wines:

Our Champagne is a non-vintage from Gardet Brut Reserve. This is roughly one-third Pinot Meunier, one-third Pinot Noir and one-third Chardonnay, with a fair splash of older oak-aged wine, which gives it extra biscuity depth. This is drinking well now, but will also improve over the next few years, if you can keep your twitching hands away from the cork. There’s £6.50 off the list price.

The everyday drinking white is an Albarino, one of the great grapes of Spain. Bone dry, yet slightly scented, pineapple and spices, it has subtlety and finesse, remarkable for wine that is being sold under under £9, or £3 off the list price. A lovely aperitif or with a seafood starter.

Our next choice is a very classy white Burgundy, a 2010 Pouilly-Fuisse Terroir de Vergisson, that normally sells for £27 but here has been reduced by £6.75 a bottle Our glugging red is a Chianti Riserva from Corliano, made in the magnificent year of 2009. It is reduced by £3.75. Tuscan wines just go on getting better and better, and I know you will enjoy this rich, fruit-filled number with its smack of damsons and sour cherries.


St Joseph from the northern Rhône can be slightly thin for my taste, though not this rich, dark, musky, luscious 2010 from the celebrated J-L Chave. The Chinese are now catching on to Rhone wines, so prices can only rise, which makes this £6 a bottle reduction all the more terrific.

For claret fans we have a 2004 Grand Cru St Emilion, nine years maturing, reduced by £6.75. What is not to like here? Merlot is ripe and soft and velvety, and here the tannins have beautifully lost their edge. Open this a couple of hours before you drink, decant it, and it will turn an ordinary traditional Christmas dinner into something quite exceptional.

Why don’t we drink more port? It is amazing value. The William Pickering 20-year-old tawny may be non-vintage but it is utterly delicious, smooth, perfumed, stylish, absolutely perfect with pudding or with cheese. Or just on its own. Read more