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Matthew Jukes is wine correspondent of the Daily Mail and is read each week by over 9 million readers. He has won The International Wine and Spirit Competition’s Trophy for Communicator of the Year, writes best selling wine guides in the UK and Australia, as well as being a wine buyer and internationally respected wine judge.
Welcome to the 100 Best Australian Wine list for 2010. As always this list is the result of exhaustive tastings over the last twelve months and it represents the finest one hundred Australian wines on the shelves in the UK today. This year I have introduced a brand new initiative - the Hall of Fame - and I congratulate the names below for making this imperial grade. CULLEN, DE BORTOLI, FOX GORDON, HARDY’S, JACOB’S CREEK, KNAPPSTEIN, MCWILLIAM’S, MITOLO, PENFOLDS, PETER LEHMANN, ST. ...
I very much look forward to seeing all of you who are attending at the National Gallery of Victoria, 180 St Kilda Road, Melbourne on Monday 6 September. I will be reporting back about this amazing event on my return to the UK later that week. I will also be whipping Victorians up into a state of...
Sadly, the photo in the magazine this week is the wrong one - blame the UK agent! Oh well. Be assured that the bottle of wine is an awful lot prettier than the one featured! 2002 Joseph Perrier, Brut Rosé, Champagne, France (£43.50 - £49.95, Cambridge Wine Merchants tel. 01223 568991, Eurovines...
3 Wines for Tomato Recipes! The seemingly innocent tomato is a notoriously difficult chap to match to wine. Look to high acid wines with crisp finishes to balance nicely with these dishes. And any colour goes, hence my delicious triplet of wines this week. 2008 Chinon, Domaine du Colombier, Loire,...
2000 Tesco Finest* Ribera del Duero Gran Reserva, Limited Edition, Spain (£14.99, selected Tesco). Tesco is celebrating ten years of its Finest* own-label wine series. I sat through an enlightening lecture given by Dan Jago, director of Beers, Wines and Spirits, the other day and he waxed lyrical...
2009 Apremont, Les Rocailles, Savoie, France (£7.99, Waitrose or £7.59, by the case, www.waitrosewine.com). There is massive bolt of nostalgia welling up in me as I type this column. I haven’t drunk an Apremont in ages, so Les Rocailles is a massive treat. Perhaps that’s because I...
2009 Taste the Difference Albariño, Galicia, Spain (£6.99, Sainsbury’s). The quirky albariño grape smells a little like a tangy viognier with its peach fuzz, lime and honeysuckle notes and it is an impossible classy combo with seafood and crustacea, so it is spot on with the paella and it...
2007 Moulin-à-Vent, Clos du Tremblay, Domaine Janin, Beaujolais, France (£15.75, Harvey Nichols of London tel. 020 7201 8537; £12.50, Underwood Wines of Warwick tel. 01926 402100). The Glorious Twelfth is just around the corner and you must arm yourself with a few decent reds for this annual challenge. ...
2006 Mountford Estate Pinot Noir, Waipara, New Zealand (£30.95, www.slurp.co.uk). Some of the world’s finest Pinots come from a small, virtually unknown, boutique wine region called Waipara, in the South Island of New Zealand. Heroic names like Pyramid Valley, Bell Hill and Pegasus Bay are...
2007 Scharzhofberger Riesling Kabinett, Reichsgraf von Kesselstatt, Mosel, Germany (£14.00, MWH Wine Merchants tel. 0118 984 4654 and www.mwhwine.co.uk). I wrote up a von Kesselstatt wine in this column nearly four years ago and every bottle that I have tasted from this estate since has completely...
Daily Mail Weekend Magazine Inexpensive wines for Summer Parties You do not have to drop your standards this summer if you drop your prices! Here are the three best cheapies on the market. 2009 Gamay Vin de Pays de l’Ardèche, France (£3.99, Marks & Spencer). This terrific, light-weight,...
