A brooding, regal Beaujolais for the 'Glorious Twelfth'

2007 Moulin--Vent, Clos du Tremblay, Domaine Janin, Beaujolais, France (£15.75, Harvey Nichols, 020-7201 8537; £12.50, Underwood Wines of Warwick, 01926-402100).

The Glorious Twelfth is just around the corner and you must arm yourself with a few decent reds for this annual challenge.

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Janin's Moulin--Vent is a wine that I have followed for 20 years it is brooding, regal and packed with supple fruits de la fort. It is light on its feet, but intensely flavoured and sumptuously appointed.

It will serenade the bird, not shout down a megaphone at it and it is the finest of its kind and only £16 phenomenal value for money. For those of you who fall head over heels with this wine, here is an-other stunner with an even more ethereal touch 2008 Fleurie Clos de la Roilette, Domaine Coudert (£13.50, John Gordons of Cheltenham, 01242-245985; £15.75, Harvey Nichols).

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

Matthew Jukes has been the MoneyWeek wine correspondent since 2006.

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

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.