The world’s finest Aussie shiraz

2013 La Violetta, Up! Shiraz, Great Southern, Western Australia (about £25, The Good Wine Shop, 020-8994 8184; Planet of the Grapes, 020-7831 2181; Covino, 01244-347727; The Knotted Vine, 020-86162170).

Up! is cut from a similar cloth with heady, intense, pheromonal appeal and I can't believe that no stems have been used in this wine's production because the pepper and spice found here, which is usually determined from the addition of ripe stems and stalks during fermentation, is overwhelming. The black-cherry fruit is sleek and studded with raspy, iodine-pricked detail and the finish is crisp and angular. It leaves you with a desperately attractive slate-y freshness which cools your senses.

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This wine is expressive and dramatic in every respect it reminds me of a top flight, elemental Cornas from the northern Rhne, but with more freshness and juiciness on board. Up! floods your senses with invigorating perfume and because there is very little stock in the country you will have to act fast to secure a bottle. Do not delay you must own Up!

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.