World Champion Mixed Dozen

Save $108 on12 red & white champions from France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Chile, New Zealand and South Africa. Seven great winemaking countries contribute Gold-winning champions to this spectacular showcase at $17.99 a bottle.

European whites include a dazzling, fragrant, citrus fresh, seafood-friendly Portuguese white from winemaker Jaime Quendera, there’s an ‘ocean-fresh’; frequent Gold-winner from a coastal vineyard called La Marina in Spain’s Valencia, and head to Italy for a pristine, citrus-fresh Pinot Grigio champion from mountain-cooled Alto Adige in Venezie.

Enjoy an elegant South African Viognier, bursting with ripe apricot and exotic spice, from a top estate, and an exuberant, super-fresh white from Chile’s remote Elqui Valley crafted by Italy’s talented Don Aldo Olivier. Then head closer to home for a beautifully matured, luxurious Chardonnay from New Zealand’s premium Hawke’s Bay.

Spain offers two red Champions in the beautifully mature, Gran Selección from Valencia – with 16 Golds and a Trophy in just nine vintages and a Triple-Gold, delicious, silky-soft Merlot from the Cariñena region, bursting with cherry and red fruit flavours. In Bordeaux, Jean-Marc Sauboua breaks local rules by using two cuvées of delicious Merlot from two vintages – warm, ripe 2022 and the fresher 2023, for his delicious Le Bourg, while from France’s southern Rhône valley, there’s a luscious, ripe and velvety red with Gold, from the Guillot family’s 4th-generation estate. Southern Italian winemaker Leonardo Palumbo marries a trio of dark, velvety Puglian grapes – Nero di Troia, Negroamaro and Primitivo for the red he names after himself, and from Portugal there’s the prized bestseliing, remarkable star, Vinna do Fava – a pure Touriga Nacional, with a Trophy, and 34 Golds, Grand Golds and Double Golds in nine vintages.