A majestic, award-winning Shiraz

2006 Mount Langi Ghiran, The Manager’s Blend Shiraz

Matthew Jukes
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2006 Mount Langi Ghiran The Manager's Blend Shiraz, Grampians, Victoria, Australia (£12.99, reduced to £9.74 if you buy two bottles, until 1 September, Majestic).

Power to the people is the theme for this week's wine. The Manager's Blend is a wine made at Langi Ghiran. It's sourced from parcels of Shiraz from their famous Cliff Edge Vineyard. Eighteen months ago, six Majestic Wine managers visited Langi and they were set a challenge to blend their own wine from a load of barrel samples. After many hours spent tasting in the cellar and then fiddling around in the lab, a bloke called Gavin Peterson was judged the winning blender. Dan Buckle and his winemaking team at the winery were so impressed that they decided to produce a limited edition of 600 cases of this wine exclusively for Majestic to sell.

It's a good wine, too. You will sense the pepperiness and brightness of Shiraz fruit associated with this terrific cool climate' region. Compare it to Dan's own wine, albeit two years older (2004 Mount Langi Ghiran Cliff Edge Shiraz, £11.99, reduced to £8.99, same terms as above) and decide for yourself whether Gavin should quit selling and start making wine. Either way he is working in the best industry in the world but I am, of course, biased.

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Matthew Jukes is a winner of the International Wine & Spirit Competition's Communicator of the Year

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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