Vanilla-kissed stunner for under a tenner

Matthew Jukes celebrates the handcrafted vintages of Australian winemaker Tim Adams - creator of some of the best wines from Down Under.

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2006 Tim Adams Semillon, Clare Valley, south Australia (£9.19, Tesco)

Tim Adams (known affectionately as Bonecrusher, due to his wince-inducing handshake) is one of Australia's unsung wine heroes. I've known him for more than 20 years, which coincides with the period in which Australia has taken the wine world by storm. His impact in this modern day wine coup is unquantifiable: he has enhanced the palates of both professional and regular wine lovers with his handcrafted wines.

Tesco and various others stock these affordable, accurate and delicious models of their kind I deem them some of the best from Australia and most are still under a tenner!

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Look out for his riesling, and a grenache-based red called Fergus, too. I'm told that 620 stores stock his legendary Semillon, so you should find it easily. It drinks perfectly from day one, but ages for a decade.

With three-quarters fermented in new French barrels and roughly the same proportion spending five months in oak, this acacia honey, juicy lime and vanilla-kissed stunner should take the place of white Burgundy on your table when you are looking to save a few quid, but still knock the socks off your wine-adept pals.

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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