A seductive pinot noir

2013 Craggy Range, Aroha Pinot Noir, Martinborough, New Zealand (£34.66in bond per bottle, Bordeaux Index,020-7269 0703, ;£66, Hedonism Wines, 020-7290 7870; £69, The New Zealand Cellar, 020-3633 3986; £46.95, ).

Firstly, my focused pinot noir, which is without doubt the finest they have ever made. Aroha, meaning love, is a masterful combination of two parcels of vines from their Te Muna Road vineyard.With one third new French oak, this is not a dry, tannic Martinborough style but a haunting, aromatic, seductive pinot which already looks ravishing in the glass. I urge you to taste it.

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From their other vineyard stronghold, in Hawke's Bay's Gimblett Gravels sub-region, comes a staggeringly bright and peppery 2013 syrah (£17.50, The Wine Society, 01438-741177) and a cracking Bordeaux blend, 2013 Te Kahu (£16.50, also Wine Soc.). This wine is half the price of the much vaunted 2013 Sophia, which is a beast in need of slumber, and I feel that in spite of its slimmer lines it performs its duties admirably.

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