Informed Investor magazine is running an introductory guide to successful wine investment.

To help you along, each week, Timothy picks a red and a white with tasty potential.

Mt Edward Grüner Veltliner 2018, $34

Released already aged. A great opportunity to see if you savour and enjoy the softened complexities that ageing white wine can create. If the taste experience appeals, it’s time to invest in your wine cellar.

Little known globally, Grüner is popular in Austria and performing well in Aotearoa. Search for reviews and you’ll likely be advised to drink it within two years for its’ crisp citric clarity, and acidity that feels like a face-slap. Mt Edward’s Duncan Forsyth ignored that advice. His patience let the transformative gifts of ageing wine to turn that face-slap into a loving caress.

Aged, organic and characterful wine, can match even spicy dishes - mountedward.com

Morgon 'Eponym' 2021 Jean Foillard, $85

Cult wine, leading a global surge of interest in top-end Beaujolais and a generation of organic, low-intervention, French winemakers. Jean Foillard is as hip as Dad’s last operation.

Morgon, in Beaujolais, led by Jean and Agnés Foillard, has reawakened the world’s interest supple, approachable red wines. Forty years ago they committed to organic/biodynamics, low0intervention. No fining/filtration, little or no sulphur dioxide and winemaking techniques more common to their thrillingly expensive neighbours in Burgundy. Making bigger, more rustic Gamay (the grape) that the US in particular adores. Hot auction property, (the 2005 vintage price estimate increases by 137.89% over the past five years.) and they’re lovely summer drinking reds sample one yourself.

An affordable taste of a global phenomenon. From the most celebrated vineyard in Beaujolais by it’s most regarded maker. There are more expensive French wines, but none cooler right now - bythebottle.co.nz