Wine of the week: Two insane giveaways from the Co-op

published 24 July 2012

2008 Chablis, 1er Cru Mont de Milieu, Domaine Billaud-Simon, Burgundy, France (£16.99, in 400 Co-op stores nationwide).

Cue the trumpeters: this is the first wine that I have featured, in my 314 weeks writing this column, from the Co-op. With a good team of buyers, there are always a few Co-op wines that sneak into my Weekend Magazine column (in the Daily Mail), but I wouldn't have thought they would grab a parcel of wine to suit the finely tuned MoneyWeek palate.

This beautiful Chablis, from one of my favourite estates, is one of the most insane giveaways of the year. Priced at a fiver less than anywhere else, and coming from the underrated 2008 vintage, with its keen acidity and heavenly, floral fruit, this is a wondrously cultured wine with immense class. At its peak, this radiant creature shows the typical Chablis-esque drama-offset-with-fragility character that I adore in the top wines from this region.

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Believe it or not, there is another white Burgundy at the Co-op which you should grab while you are loading up your boot with my lovely Chablis: 2010 St.-Aubin, Le Champ Tirant, Domaine Grard Thomas (£13.99) is a ripe, full, swash-buckling chardonnay from the heart of the Cte d'Or. You wait for six years and two great wines come along at once who'd a' thought it?

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

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.