Jukes 1 The Sparkling White
London, in white.
We chose Jukes because Britain's most-read wine writer refused to unwind a wine and composed something new instead. Matthew Jukes tasted for a living for nearly forty years and never found the zero-proof pour he would willingly set at his own table — so he revived a seventeenth-century farmers' cordial, the Haymaker's Punch, and rebuilt it from the ground: organic apple cider vinegar, which holds the perfume of anything macerated in it; two hundred single-note trials; a full year of blending. Matthew died suddenly in the summer of 2026. His blends continue exactly as he composed them — and the house is honored to carry his legacy to the American table.
Jukes 1 is the white — the number is his own recipe's, kept. Citrus, stone fruit and fresh herbs over that quiet cider-vinegar spine: aromatic, uplifting, beautifully dry. Peach blossom and cucumber at the open, a green, herbal lift through the middle, closing bone-dry on lemon zest.
Neither wine nor anything else you have held. That is the point.
We do not score. We read. The Reading is how the house locates this bottle — four axes, written on the four petals of the mark.
The Reading™
NOSE blossom
ARC green lift
WEIGHT taut
STAY bone-dry
One to four petals, quiet to pronounced. A Reading is a location, not a grade.
Read in — the handblown Stem Zero Champagne.
Serve — cold, from the refrigerator. The relaxed lunch, the aperitif, the toast around the table.
