A whispering angel to guide you to the summer

This is a perfect Whispering Angel and it will appeal from the moment it is poured into your glass, says Matthew Jukes.

Matthew Jukes
By Matthew Jukes
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2016 Whispering Angel, Sacha Lichine, Caves d'Esclans, Ctes de Provence, France. £110 per case (12 x 75cl); £115 per case (6 x 150cl); £52 each (300cl); £145 each (600cl). Prices are in bond and delivery will be before Easter 2017. Contact 020-7549 7900 or FromVineyardsDirect.com

FromVineyardsDirect.com is offering this extraordinary wine en primeur until 28 February and I am told that these prices represent a significant saving on the eventual retail pricing structure for this terrific vintage.

Whispering Angel is the world's most famous ros and it has an unenviable task set before it each year to raise its own bar in order to impress all of the people who have fallen for this angel's charms since passionate pioneer Sacha Lichine launched it over a decade ago. This property makes the finest ross in the world and 2013 Garrus, the top cuve, appeared on this very page two years ago.

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Whispering Angel is the "everyday" cuve and it is epic in 2016. The colour is the palest coral pink. The texture, fast-becoming a d'Esclans hallmark, is magically slippery, offset with tangy citrus and pink grapefruit notes over cool, river-stone minerality. This is a perfect Whispering Angel and it will appeal from the moment it is poured into your glass until the last sunset this summer.

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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