Wine of the week: a discounted, worthy, noble pinot

This kiwi red tastes knocks the socks off any other pinot in the world at this price, and will age gracefully for a decade.

Matthew Jukes
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2008 Wither Hills Pinot Noir, Marlborough, South Island, New Zealand (£16.99, reduced until 31 January to £9.99 if you buy two or more bottles, Majestic, www.majestic.co.uk ).

Majestic has been on a roll this year and some of the discounts available are unbeatable. Tread carefully though, because not all of the wines in this thorn-in-the-supermarkets'-side are as incredible as Wither Hills pinot. I have bought every vintage of this wine ever made and wine-makers Ben Glover and Sally Williams are as perceptive as others twice their age in the region. At £17, and with a three-star award in my Great New Zealand Classification of 2010, this is an accurate, worthy and noble wine.

At a tenner it is in danger of perhaps losing some of its loyal fans because they might think that something has changed or that the wine is being diluted or repositioned on account of a shift in quality. Nothing can be further from the truth WH is making better wine than ever and this discount is a one off. Grab all that you can get it already tastes stunning and it will also age gracefully for a decade and knock the socks off any other pinot in the world at this price.

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PS: 2008 Jim Barry, The Lodge Hill Shiraz, Clare Valley, South Australia (£9.99, reduced to £7.99 for the same period) is another cracker!

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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