Thanksgiving - Celebrations Party Pack (12-bottle)

Seated at my holiday table this year will be a mix of 10 friends and family members with a wide range of wine experience—seasoned wine professionals as well as in-laws who just enjoy a delicious glass. I’ve put together the ultimate 12-bottle set that will please and intrigue a crowd as diverse as mine; a tour of the world in liquid form. From my own backyard of Napa Valley to the hallowed hills of Burgundy, these selections are as sure-fire as they are adventurous. Your guests may not remember the turkey, or the stuffing, but they’ll remember the white Burgundy, the Cabernet, the Côtes du Rhône—and you, their wine hero. I know these selections will delight, inspire, and bring as much joy to your entire table as they will to mine.

Cheers!
Vanessa Conlin, Head of Wine

Our Celebrations 12-Bottle Party Pack Includes:

Langlois-Chateau Crémant de Loire Brut

When Bollinger took a page right out of their own Champagne-making script to produce a Crémant—sparkling Loire would never be the same again. Pairs perfectly by itself or with oysters and mignonette.

Round and elegant on the palate with lively acidity, complex citrus notes are underscored by roughly 10% of reserve wines blended in from exceptional vintages, which unfolds in creamier layers hinting at baked fruit and notes of brioche.

2014 Louis Latour Marsannay Blanc

Marsannay is the northernmost appellation of the Côte d’Or, just a few kilometers above the illustrious slopes of Gevrey-Chambertin. Here, higher elevations, cooler temperatures, and chalky limestone soils make for Chardonnays of Chablesian cut and riveting energy. Pairs perfectly with salad with toasted hazelnuts, pears, and goat cheese.

Well-balanced acid makes for a crisp and refreshing experience without being too light in body with delicate stone and tropical fruit notes underscored by white stone minerality and hinting at jasmine tea, and white delicate flowers that burst to life on the mid-palate and nice finish.

2015 Trestle Thirty One Riesling Finger Lakes

Master of Wine Nova Cadamatre has made some of America’s most significant wines including the Robert Mondavi To Kalon 50th Anniversary Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon. Now she’s making Riesling in the Finger Lakes and we stand firmly behind this beauty. Pairs perfectly with butternut squash soup or stuffing with dried apricots of currants.

Bone-dry, taut, and refined with a clean and sleek mouthfeel, revealing impeccable fruit/floral complexities from nectarines and fleshy white peach to green apple and muddled white florals.

2017 Chateau Miraval Cotes de Provence Rose

Only a few rosés have ever landed on the Wine Spectator Top 100. One of them was Chateau Miraval. Pairs perfectly with sweet potatoes with toasted pecans.

Gorgeous salmon-hued with a vibrant rose-petal pink core. Effusive aromas of wild raspberry and strawberry fruit, garrigue, iris, and violet florals. Luscious and juicy, teeming with ripe and fleshy pear, crushed strawberries and bursting with bright acidity on a firm, saline mineral-driven finish.

2016 Bernardus Santa Lucia Highlands Pinot Noir  

Bernardus stands toe-to-toe with the full-throttle Pinots of Kosta Browne, ROAR, and Siduri. But when it comes to value, nothing tops DeKorth’s bottlings. Pairs perfectly with white and dark meat turkey and roasted Brussel sprouts with bacon.

Explosive ripe cherry and red berry aromas mingle with juicy red fruits, baking spices, and subtle blood orange notes tinged with toasty oak notes.

2015 Le Clos du Caillou Cotes du Rhone Vieilles Vignes Cuvee Unique

You won’t find this wine on a map of Châteauneuf-du-Pape. It’s not an error. In 1895, the château launched as a hunting club with no interest in winemaking. When government experts dropped by to survey the land for inclusion within Châteauneuf-du-Pape in 1936, they were greeted with drawn shotguns. Pairs perfectly with pork chops with prunes, and stuffing with mushrooms and chestnuts.

The Châteauneuf-du-Pape terroir is immediately evident in the 2015 Le Clos du Caillou Côtes du Rhône Vieilles Vignes Cuvée Unique with its effortless power, concentrated intensity, and layered fruit.

2015 Pompier Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley 

We partnered with one of Napa’s greatest estates, a benchland winery that has impressed the likes of Robert Parker, Antonio Galloni, and James Suckling, earning more than a dozen scores between 90-96 points in the last five vintages, all to make this charity-driven red. Pairs perfectly with prime rib rubbed with rosemary and garlic.

Complex aromas of bing cherry, chocolate, red currant and crushed rose petals, shrouded in notes of vanillin and pie spice. Rich, with a sinewy muscularity and refined satin touch to its tannins, the mid-palate is packed with red cherry, raspberry, and mocha.

2016 Leconfield Shiraz 

After 30 years in the wine business, Sydney Hamilton founded Leconfield in McLaren Vale at the ripe age of 76. His story is a reminder to us all that we’re never too old to dream. He was interviewed about it exactly 45 years ago on the “Now in Retirement” ABC Radio Series in 1973. Pairs perfectly with leg of lamb with and smoked hard cheeses.

Dark, inky purple-black. Lusciously fruity, but not overpowering, with pronounced blackberry, black raspberry, complemented by rich dark chocolate and toasted tonka bean notes, with a hint of exotic spice. Dense and focused, showing silky tannin and plenty of ripe attack on the finish.

2011 Campo Alla Sughera Arnione Bolgheri Superiore 

With 93 points from Wine Spectator, this “elegant and intense” Super Tuscan Superiore is a hidden gem, with production at a fraction of the tens of thousands cranked out by its neighbors Gaja and Antinori each year. Pairs perfectly with earthy mushroom risotto and pasta with wild boar ragu.

Profound aromas and layers of warm dark fruit and exotic spice over a core of mineral, leather, tobacco and garrigue. The palate is lush, elegant and intense, packed with juicy black plum, mocha and espresso with notes of cigar box and dried herbs. The well-integrated tannins are soft and supple, supporting layers of flavor on the long, satisfying finish.

2015 Camille de Labrie Bordeaux AOC 

Produced by Saint-Émilion Grand Cru estate Croix de Labrie, this is a serious value red, and one of the last true garagiste properties in Saint-Émilion. The winemaking is guided by Michel Rolland (Harlan Estate, Valandraud, Ch. Angélus). Pairs perfectly with hard cheddar and cigars.

Generous aromas burst forth with blackberry, black cherry, plum, cedar, sweet spice, and a hint of cocoa nibs. Vivacious and energetic on the palate, with a focused core of pure fruit, supple tannins—a perfect every-day Bordeaux sipper.

2016 Consortium Band of Vintners Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley 

Meet the wine band that is changing the rules on Napa Valley Cabernet. We’ve been saying it, even before band leader and 100-point Parker winemaker Dan Petroski was named 2017 SF Chronicle Winemaker of the Year AND before Decanter listed the band among its top “new faces” of Napa! Pairs perfectly with filet mignon with truffle butter.

Dark and inky with a crimson core. Packed with black fruit aromas from blackberry, black currants, and cherries to hints of new leather and mocha. Emerging on the mid-palate are notes of cedar, dusty cocoa and vanilla spice. Balanced at the core with plush and polished tannins.

2016 Delightful and Strange Red Blend 

Napa opportunities like this come only once a decade? That’s what we thought until the 2016 vintage blew the lid off our wildest imaginations. With strict NDAs in place, we’re sworn to complete secrecy from blending to bottle on this new vintage release of Delightful & Strange. Pairs perfectly with roast beef and caramelized onions.

A bold and opulent Napa Valley Red packed with aromas of wild blackberry, mountain blueberry, and pomegranate, tinged with pops of licorice, cinnamon, mocha, vanillin, and espresso bean. Full-bodied, with a rich and creamy palate balanced by flavors of fresh black cherry and notes of chocolate, with supple, chewy mountain and Rutherford tannins, finishing with lingering dark fruits and terrific mouthwatering acidity, which is a hallmark of the vintage.