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Matthew Jukes is a winner of the International Wine and Spirit Competition's Communicator of the Year Trophy. He has been the MoneyWeek wine correspondent since 2006 and his four highly-acclaimed, annual wine Reports, Bordeaux, Burgundy, Piemonte and 100 Best Australian Wines are published on his website www.matthewjukes.com.

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Wine of the week: an enchanting chardonnay from Belgium

Delicate, haunting and packed with vitality and verve, this Belgian chardonnay is a rare beauty.

26 Feb 2021

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Wine of the week: a quartet of remarkable kiwis

Matthew Jukes tastes four remarkable bottles from prodigiously talented New Zealand winemaker Jules Taylor.

19 Feb 2021

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Wine of the week: a pair of English beauties

Bringing out the incandescent beauty of the ortega grape variety, these two English wines are like nothing you will have ever tasted before.

12 Feb 2021

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Wine of the week: a top-flight Californian chardonnay

A beating heart of refreshing acidity electrifies this dynamic wine.

8 Feb 2021

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Wine of the week: two sensational whites drinking now

This pair of exquisite whites from two world-famous estates are both eminently affordable and drinking now.

29 Jan 2021

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Wine of the week: an absolute diva from Piemonte

Fresh onto our shelves, this is one of the most beguiling wines of the moment, says Matthew Jukes.

22 Jan 2021

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Wine of the week: a perky Austrian white with style and panache

This Austrian grüner offers a little more flavour intrigue than your average sauvignon blanc or chenin blanc.

15 Jan 2021

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Wine of the week: an insanely delicious Kiwi interloper

This silky Kiwi combines spice and tension with an underlying classiness and flamboyance.

8 Jan 2021

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Wine of the week: the ultimate gift for your palate this Christmas season

This is one of the few English white wines that can stand shoulder to shoulder with elite-class white Burgundies.

24 Dec 2020

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Six winning Christmas wines

From a 2004 Château Potensac at the peak of its powers to a top-flight Chablis exuding class and finesse, MoneyWeek’s wine columnist Matthew Jukes rou…

11 Dec 2020

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Wine of the week: the Cape’s finest chenin

This South African white is a highly polished creation with stunning juiciness, breeding and undeniable style.

4 Dec 2020

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Wine of the week: sound the trumpets for this genuine work of art

This sauvignon blanc from winemaker Simon Chotard is a genuine revelation.

27 Nov 2020

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Wine of the week: a Burgundy with rakish swagger

I cannot think of a finer value red Burgundy on the shelves today, says Matthew Jukes.

20 Nov 2020

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Wine of the week: a Rabelaisian delight

This South African red is one of the most elegant and luxurious wines of the year.

13 Nov 2020

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Wine of the week: a perfectly balanced beauty

This insanely inexpensive, obscenely-easy-to-get-hold-of wine is the best-value Rhône-shaped red in the country.

6 Nov 2020

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Wine of the week: the most magical Douro white in existence

This wine's flavour confounds the senses and tantalises your taste buds, says Matthew Jukes.

30 Oct 2020

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Wine of the week: an opinionated shiraz from the Clare Valley

This inky and powerful Australian red comes with one of the most affordable price tags for a wine of this build-quality.

23 Oct 2020

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Wine of the week: a mind-blowingly exciting aperitif

This riesling is a bargain and a beauty. And at a sniff under 20 quid, it is positively irresistible.

16 Oct 2020

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Wine of the week: a brave sauvignon blanc that hits the bullseye

This ultra-rare Kiwi white is a veritable mille-feuille of tanginess, texture and length, says Matthew Jukes.

9 Oct 2020

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Wine of the week: one of the greatest grenaches

This very serious Australian red tastes like nothing else made from Grenache, says Matthew Jukes.

2 Oct 2020

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Wine of the week: an out-of-body experience

This is one of the most grown-up and exacting Spanish white wines I have tasted in years, says Matthew Jukes.

25 Sep 2020

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Wine of the week: an unnervingly serious Bojo

This stunning Beaujolais combines a cherry fruitiness with a stern backbone of minerality and rigidity.

22 Sep 2020

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Wine of the week: load up on this stellar Beaujolais

With wild, red-berry fruit and a dusting of earthiness and gaminess, this is one of the most thirst-quenching and yet classy wines I have tasted this …

11 Sep 2020

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Wine of the week: three South African stunners

Matthew Jukes picks three three beautiful, perfectly priced wines from one of the most famous estates in the whole of the Cape.

4 Sep 2020

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Wine of the week: Charles Dickens’ favourite tipple

This is the most remarkable young Vin de Constance I have ever tasted, says Matthew Jukes.

28 Aug 2020

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A top-level vermentino that just keeps giving

This Sardinian white brings loads of vitality and a racy, stone-fruit-bitterness to a fine lunch.

21 Aug 2020

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Wine of the week: the epitome of affordable elegance

The flavour of this bubbly obliterates all but a handful of Champagnes with three-digit price tags.

17 Aug 2020

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Wine of the week: a staggering Bacchanalian creation

With uncommon texture, palate plushness and perfect balance, this wine is a different take on the Bacchus grape, says Matthew Jukes.

7 Aug 2020

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Wine of the week: a perfect and thrilling tightrope routine

This is a delicious and well-thought-through wine with delicacy and considerable richness in perfect harmony.

31 Jul 2020

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Wine of the week: a genuinely unique new rosé

This scintillating new English rosé is like no other I have ever tasted, says Matthew Jukes.

24 Jul 2020

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Wine of the week: an eruption of intense flavour from Etna

This Italian white could herald one of the most welcome renaissances in the modern wine world.

17 Jul 2020

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Wine of the week: one for the ardent oak-lovers

This 2018 Cordillera is a handsome, flavour-packed, expressive wine with perfectly balanced, hedonistic levels of oak.

10 Jul 2020

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Wine of the week: a new dawn for Douro reds

Many Douro red wines seem to lack polish and sophistication. Not this one.

3 Jul 2020

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Wine of the week: a phenomenal, plush chardonnay

With stunning depth and juiciness, plush, but controlled oak and serious length, this is a phenomenal wine.

26 Jun 2020

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Wine of the week: a simply perfect English sparkler

This is, without doubt, the most resonant and beautiful English wine I have ever tasted.

19 Jun 2020

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Wine of the week: an unusual, sensual creature

This luxuriously appointed Barbaresco contains hedonistic edges that gently tease the palate.

12 Jun 2020