Wine of the week: A phenomenal bargain Burgundy

This wine will amaze you with its finesse, says Matthew Jukes.

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2010 Moulin--Vent, Vieilles Vignes, Domaine Thibault Liger-Belair, Beaujolais, France (about £21.50, Hercules Wines of Sandwich, 01304-617100; The Wine Tasting Shop, 020-8616 8658; WoodWinters of Edinburgh and Bridge of Allan, 01786-834894).

I am obsessed with 2010 Burgundies, but as many of them have already been snapped up by my wise readers, after my en primeur focus a year ago, there are few cases to be found today. So, I have thought outside the box this week!

This is one of the finest wines from Greater Burgundy that I can remember. It is a 2010 and it's made by one of the most talented young men in France Thibault Liger-Belair (an aristocratic Obelix if you would like to form an image in your mind).

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Thibault makes stunning Vosne-Romane, among other star wines, and I have recently picked him out as one of my ten Domaines of the year. This beauty comes from very old gamay vines in the noble Beaujolais Cru of Moulin--Vent and it's made in exactly the same way as a Grand Cru Burgundy.

It is very nearly drinking and on account of its postcode it is a phenomenal bargain. With another five years to run, this is a wine that will amaze you with its skill, finesse and sensuality. If you missed out on the 2010s first time around, do not miss out again!

Matthew Jukes is a winner of the International Wine & Spirit Competition's Communicator of the Year (www.matthewjukes.com).

Matthew Jukes
Matthew Jukes

Matthew Jukes has worked in the UK wine business for well over three decades and during this time has written 14 wine books.  

Matthew regularly lectures, judges, speaks at wine conferences and runs masterclass tastings for both corporate and private clients all over the world. Matthew is also the creator of his ground-breaking initiative, the One Day Wine School, an indulgent day of tasting and learning first performed in 2006.

He has been the MoneyWeek wine correspondent since 2006 and has written a weekly column for the Daily Mail’s Weekend Magazine since 1999. His four highly-acclaimed, annual wine reports – the Burgundy En Primeur Report, the Bordeaux En Primeur Report, the Piemonte Report and the 100 Best Australian Wines – are published on his website, www.matthewjukes.com.

Matthew is one of the world’s leading experts on Australian wine and, with Brisbane-based wine writer Tyson Stelzer, runs an annual competition in Australia to find ‘The Great Australian Red’.  He was made Honorary Australian of the Year in the UK at the 2012 Australia Day Foundation Gala dinner. 

Matthew is a winner of the International Wine and Spirit Competition's Communicator of the Year Trophy.  His thoughts, recommendations and tastings notes are followed very closely by the wine world at large.

 

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