I think from now on we’ll start calling this Wine of the Month and if I manage more than that, we’ll consider it a bonus. Trouble is the discipline goes out the window when we’ve had a few.

So this week’s prize goes to Domaine de Villaine, Les Clous Aime 2015. Contrary to popular belief (i.e. mine) this does not mean the Villain’s Domaine in French, so if you’re imagining Voldemort or Darth Vadar out there crushing grapes, you’ll be disappointed.

Instead, this wonderful wine is created by a guy Mr T describes as the God of Wine, with something of a wistful gaze. Aubert de Villaine is the winemaker at Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, or DRC if you’re in the know (I am not). In addition to making wine for one of the most respected and expensive wineries in the world (we’re talking over £13,000 a bottle here), Monsieur Villaine also has another domaine in Bouzeron, a lesser known region of Burgundy and he was instrumental in getting the region classified as a new appellation back in the 90s (complicated but it's a big deal).

This wine is from his own label which we opened to go with our duck dinner the other night. Yes, yes I know that duck is usually a red thing but the sauce, or jus, or whatever it was called for white wine so clearly there can be some bending of the rules. Also there’s generally no leftover wine in our house so if we open two, we drink two, and that seemed a tad aggressive for a Monday night. Anyway, I digress.

So this particular bottle is a very reasonable 24 euro, which constitutes a great value wine from Burgundy. It’s affordable because it comes from Cote Chalonnaise, which as I mentioned is a lesser known area but is turning out some terrific wines. You have to love a fellow who makes some of the most eye wateringly expensive wines at his “day job,” but who appears to be happiest when he’s in a region that isn’t well known, that he helped create, making affordable wines for people to enjoy. I love that.

For my tasting notes, I thought the wine was incredibly tasty. However, as we were trying to make duck on an electric hob that wouldn’t heat up, I don’t have any tasting notes other than smells like duck. Mr T did a little better, telling me he could detect lemon, peach, nectarine as well as a touch of pear on the nose, a lovely minerality to the taste, but with a richness as 2015 was a riper vintage. But that’s all I got as he was having his own set-to with Daffy in the kitchen. In short, it was darn tasty and we’d highly recommend it.

Now I’m not sure if you can get this specific wine in your local wine shop but you can buy it online if you fancy it. Interesting aside, the maestro Aubert de Villaine is also Director at HdV, or Hyde de Villaine in Napa Valley. We haven’t tried those wines, so quaffe at your own risk, although it’s safe to say they are probably pretty tasty too. He knows a thing or two about wine does Monsieur Villaine.