A sensational Cabernet/Merlot blend

Yantra is sensational with buoyant cherry notes and a long, soothing, mineral-spiked finish, says Matthew Jukes.

Matthew Jukes
By Matthew Jukes
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2014 Yantra, Tenuta Sette Cieli, Monteverdi Marittimo, Tuscany, Italy (£21.00, reduced to £105.00 for six bottles, equivalent to £17.50 per bottle, from Swig, 08000-272272, Swig.co.uk).

I visited the spectacular Seven Heavens estate in May and have been wishing time away waiting for the wines to arrive in the UK. The estate's owner, Ambrogio Cremona Ratti, a young man with dauntless vision, and I stood on the terrace overlooking the Tyrrhenian Sea, 400m high up in the hills, encircled by lush forests, and he didn't need to explain to me why the estate was called Seven Heavens. We looked down upon the famous Bolgheri wine region, home to wine giants Sassicaia and Ornellaia.

This situation provides Ambrogio and his dynamic young winemaker Elena Pozzolini with the perfect, cool climate with which to craft his epic wines. The soils are crammed with rocks and minerals, unlike the fertile plains of Bolgheri, and this imbues the wines with aromatic detail and cool, long, fine acidity.

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The 2014 Yantra, my wine of the week, is a blend of Cabernet and Merlot and it doesn'tsee any oak. It is sensational with buoyant cherry notes and a long, soothing, mineral-spiked finish. Meanwhile, the 2012 Indaco (£45.00from Swig, reduced to £37.50 each if you buy a case of six) involves Malbec and also oak andit is one of the standout wines of the year. Welcome these wines into your home now, because production is small and this estate is a superstar in the making.

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