Superstar wines from Oddbins

Get down to Oddbins and try this classy Aussie red, says Matthew Jukes.

Matthew Jukes
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2009 Longview, Devil's Elbow Cabernet Sauvignon, Adelaide Hills, South Australia (£15, Oddbins).

Oddbins has been trying to get its act together of late to entice people back into its stores. There are a number of new wines coming onto the shelves and the best of these are to be found in the Australian section. With no less than six wines from Longview, all brand new to the UK, you really ought to find your local store (35 across the UK) and pop in for a browse.

The Red Bucket' entry level blends are charming and rewarding, but if you step up a few pounds you encounter 2011 Whippet Sauvignon Blanc and 2011 Blue Cow Chardonnay (both £13), 2009 Yakka Shiraz (£15), and my pick, Devil's Elbow (£15). They are all absolutely brilliant.

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The Adelaide Hills region is famous for its rapier-sharp sauvignons, silky, cool climate chardies and peppery, plummy shirazes, but it is this remarkable cabernet, with a touch of mint on the nose and a mass of blackcurrant fruit on the palate, which is a real surprise.

Medium-weight, amazingly classy and terrific value, the owners, the Saturno family, and consultant winemaker Ben Glaetzer, have pushed this portfolio to the brink of superstardom. Now all you have to do is taste their wines, so get down to Oddbins.

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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