Join this magical cult

Snap up this utterly stunning Aussie pinot, says Matthew Jukes.

Matthew Jukes
By Matthew Jukes
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2011 Onannon, Pinot Noir, Gippsland, Victoria, Australia (about £35, Noel Young Wines, 01223-566744; D. Byrne & Co, 01200-423152; Camber Wines, 023-9275 5225; Raffles Wine, 01453-833133; Highbury Vintners, 020-7226 1347; The Good Wine Shop, 020-8994 8184; Mill Hill Wines, 020-8959 6754; Hangingditch, 0161-832 8222).

This year's 100 Best Australian Wines list went live on my website last week. I launched all 100 wines at Australia House last Tuesday and will start my nationwide roadshow at Tate Britain on 9 September I hope you can make one of the events. But, sadly, this wine will not be joining me.

Each year, I have to be brutally ruthless with my selection process and, as there are only 35 cases of Onannon in the country, there's not enough of it about for the lifetime of this initiative. This is why I am telling you about it right now.

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The tagline for this beauty is subversive pinot noir from three renegade winemakers in Gippsland'! That pretty much sums it up.

Unfined, unfiltered, sourced from 16-year-old vines in the Lightfoot Vineyard, Will Byron, Kaspar Hermann and Sam Middleton have managed to make an utterly stunning wine. It is a magical pinot with succulence and complexity and you should rush out to buy this cult wine.

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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