Your Christmas entertaining, sorted!
Matthew Jukes' December selection represents all of the flavours you need to get your Christmas and New Year entertaining schedule off to a wondrous start.
This collection is available to buy online via Yapp's website, or give them a call on 01747 860423 and quote "MoneyWeek" to benefit from exclusive MoneyWeek savings and FREE UK delivery to mainland addresses. The deadline for Christmas delivery has now passed, but order now and this case will give you something to look forward to in January!
How it works
Prices and savings below are exclusive to MoneyWeek readers and are based on ordering a case of 12 bottles (Champagne is available as a case of six). You can also buy a mixed case, giving you two bottles of each wine, for just £199, saving you £26.90. You'll enjoy FREE UK delivery on all orders. Offer ends 4 January 2019.
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Matthew Jukes
NV Dumangin, La Grande Rserve, Champagne, France
£36£28.67
The impact of extended ageing on non-vintage Champagne is so interesting. I came up with the idea of an Extra Age' cuve for a house Champagne many moons ago and now a number of Houses make this lusty style (with varying success). Fifth generation winemaker Gilles Dumangin has always championed this richer, vintage-style' technique and his is a thrilling wine. It's common knowledge that Sir Paul McCartney drank this wine at his wedding to Nancy Shevell, but only a small crowd know that I drank it at my wedding, too! This is your definitive, great value Christmas Champagne.
Case price: £172, saving £44
2017 Domaine de l'Idylle, Vieilles Vignes, Cruet, Savoie, France
£12.95£11.95
This is one of the most fascinating and invigorating wines of the season. New on the market, this pin sharp white made from the dramatic slopes of the Savoie wine region is fashioned from a grape that you might not have come across before - Jacqure. Aside from price, the main attraction here is the extraordinary sophistication found on the palate. A wildflower scent and wet pebble coolness are joined by the most demure and weightless citrus theme, making it the perfect aperitif and canap wine. Expect to be profoundly moved.
Case price: £143.40, saving £12
2016 Fitou, Domaine des Rebouls, Languedoc-Roussillon, France
£13.25£12.25
This is the very first vintage of Domaine de Rebouls. Winemaker Jean-Marc Astruc made the monumental step of freeing himself from the grasp of the local co-operative and bottling his own grapes under his own label the results are incredible. Made from Carignan, Grenache and Syrah, this is a densely appointed wine with a powerful mid-palate and a dry, raspy finish. It is macho, proud, generous and fiercely authentic. It is also a tiny price to pay for this level of seriously talented winemaking.
Case price: £147, saving £12
2017 Le Petit Caboche, Vin de Pays de Vaucluse, France
£10.50£9.50
Made from a blend of Syrah, Egiodola, Caladoc and Marselan, by the former mayor of Chteauneuf-du-Pape, Jean-Pierre Boisson, and his daughter Emilie this is one of my favourite wines in the Yapp cellar. Juicy, buoyant, frivolous and light-hearted, this is a cracking house' red with all of the joy and ebullience that you crave in a wintry glugger. Seamless, silky and also marvellously polished - you rarely find these descriptors used for Vaucluse wines!
Case price: £114, saving £12
2014 Chteau Milhau-Lacugue, Les Truffires, Saint-Chinian, Languedoc-Roussillon, France
£15.50£14.50
Saint-Chinian is a gem of a wine region in the Hrault department, tucked between Bziers and Carcassonne. Wine has been made here for over two thousand years - Roman orator Cicero was a big fan. Les Truffires is a classy Saint-Chinian with less earthiness and grunt than many. The wines of this estate show plump, voluminous fruit and masses of style. Shaped like a lusty Pomerol more than a rustic Gigondas, this is a beautiful wine made from Syrah and Grenache. It may seem somewhat of an anomaly, but if you get to know this estate well, you will find that all of their wines have this lan and allure.
Case price: £174, saving £12
2017 Domaine Pieretti, Muscat du Cap Corse, France
£24.75 £23.75
I tasted this wine at a recent Yapp event and fell in love at first sip. Similar in shape and size to a Muscat de Beaumes-de-Venise but with a wilder, more untamed perfume, this Corsican beauty is a superb sweetie and because it is a full (75cl) bottle, the value is, once again, incredible. Mandarin-themed with light, honey and brle notes, this wine could be drunk with pt as well as with fruity puds. I wouldn't make it to afternoon tea without demanding a large glass with a slice of cake!
Case price: £285, saving £12
PLACE YOUR ORDER NOW via Yapp's website, or call them direct: 01747 860423 and quote "MoneyWeek"
Terms & Conditions: Offer ends 4 January 2018. Free delivery on all orders over £100, otherwise £10. Orders placed after 18 December will be dispatched in early January 2019. Payment can be made by credit or debit card over the phone or online.
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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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