Jukes 8 The Sparkling Rosé

London, by way of Provence.

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 8 is the rosé — his love letter to the food, wine and countryside of Provence. Perfumed and delicate, crunchy red fruits over garden herbs, refreshingly crisp through the middle and finished dry. Poured cold, it does what the south of France does: it slows the afternoon down.

The warm afternoon, bottled in London.

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    red fruit

ARC    herbal

WEIGHT    light

STAY    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, without ceremony. The warm afternoon, the celebratory dinner, the effortless host's table.