A charming, seductive and graceful white Burgundy

This Puligny-Montrachet is just the wine to plug the gap while you're waiting for 2015's Burgundies to arrive, says Matthew Jukes.

Matthew Jukes
By Matthew Jukes
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2014 Berry Bros. & Rudd Puligny-Montrachet by Jean-Louis Chavy, Burgundy, France (£35, Berry Bros. & Rudd, 0800-280 2440, BBR.com).

This column is published at the end of the UK wine trade's annual "Burgundy En Primeur" week. This is our chance to taste a huge range of Burgundies, which are newly bottled and/or still slumbering in oak barrels. The vintage under the microscope was 2015 and, judging by the early released, generic Bourgogne blancs and rouges and a few of the more forward-drinking wines that have already hit our shelves, this is a jolly good vintage.

I will be releasing my own in-depth thoughts on the various merchants' wines this weekend, but as I write this column, on New Year's Eve, I would like to whet your appetite for the ensuing, annual Burgundy-fever with this superb own-label Berry Bros. & Rudd Puligny, which sneaked onto the market a month or so ago. This is a beautiful wine with every facet of the chardonnay grape in perfect harmony.

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It is not a long-lived creature, so you can crack on now and bathe your taste buds in its glory. The reason I have chosen to feature this wine, rather than any other, is that the bulk of the grand 2015s will start to arrive in the UK in the middle of the year and this charming, graceful, seductive white will fill this void like the most perfectly snug, hand-tooled puzzle piece imaginable.

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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