
Matthew Jukes
Matthew Jukes has worked in the UK wine business for well over three decades and during this time has written 14 wine books.
Matthew regularly lectures, judges, speaks at wine conferences and runs masterclass tastings for both corporate and private clients all over the world. Matthew is also the creator of his ground-breaking initiative, the One Day Wine School, an indulgent day of tasting and learning first performed in 2006.
He has been the MoneyWeek wine correspondent since 2006 and has written a weekly column for the Daily Mail’s Weekend Magazine since 1999. His four highly-acclaimed, annual wine reports – the Burgundy En Primeur Report, the Bordeaux En Primeur Report, the Piemonte Report and the 100 Best Australian Wines – are published on his website.
Matthew is one of the world’s leading experts on Australian wine and, with Brisbane-based wine writer Tyson Stelzer, runs an annual competition in Australia to find ‘The Great Australian Red’. He was made Honorary Australian of the Year in the UK at the 2012 Australia Day Foundation Gala dinner.
Matthew is a winner of the International Wine and Spirit Competition's Communicator of the Year Trophy. His thoughts, recommendations and tastings notes are followed very closely by the wine world at large.
Latest articles by Matthew Jukes
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Wine of the week: three South African stunnersReviews Matthew Jukes picks three three beautiful, perfectly priced wines from one of the most famous estates in the whole of the Cape.
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Wine of the week: Charles Dickens’ favourite tippleReviews This is the most remarkable young Vin de Constance I have ever tasted, says Matthew Jukes.
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A top-level vermentino that just keeps givingReviews This Sardinian white brings loads of vitality and a racy, stone-fruit-bitterness to a fine lunch.
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Wine of the week: the epitome of affordable eleganceReviews The flavour of this bubbly obliterates all but a handful of Champagnes with three-digit price tags.
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Wine of the week: a staggering Bacchanalian creationReviews With uncommon texture, palate plushness and perfect balance, this wine is a different take on the Bacchus grape, says Matthew Jukes.
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Wine of the week: a perfect and thrilling tightrope routineTips This is a delicious and well-thought-through wine with delicacy and considerable richness in perfect harmony.
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Wine of the week: a genuinely unique new roséReviews This scintillating new English rosé is like no other I have ever tasted, says Matthew Jukes.
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Wine of the week: an eruption of intense flavour from EtnaReviews This Italian white could herald one of the most welcome renaissances in the modern wine world.
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Wine of the week: one for the ardent oak-loversReviews This 2018 Cordillera is a handsome, flavour-packed, expressive wine with perfectly balanced, hedonistic levels of oak.
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Wine of the week: a new dawn for Douro redsReviews Many Douro red wines seem to lack polish and sophistication. Not this one.
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Wine of the week: a phenomenal, plush chardonnayReviews With stunning depth and juiciness, plush, but controlled oak and serious length, this is a phenomenal wine.
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Wine of the week: a simply perfect English sparklerReviews This is, without doubt, the most resonant and beautiful English wine I have ever tasted.
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Wine of the week: an unusual, sensual creatureReviews This luxuriously appointed Barbaresco contains hedonistic edges that gently tease the palate.
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Wine of the week: two rare but brilliant English sparkling wines from Fox & FoxReviews These two new releases are worthy of extremely high praise.
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Wine of the week: five exquisite creations from BurgundyReviews This is an absolute gem of a quintet from Burgundy – and you must taste them all, says Matthew Jukes.
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Wine of the week: the masters of merlotReviews Leave your expensive clarets in the cellar and crack on with this terrific wine, says Matthew Jukes.
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A pulse-quickening sherryReviews Matthew Jukes tastes a bone dry, palate-invigorating, sharply tangy sherry.
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A joyous Bojo and a classic white BurgReviews An epic Beaujolais Cru with a tiny price tag, and a good old classic, infantryman white Burgundy.
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Wine of the week: a mind-blowing roséReviews People go gaga for this sophisticated, amazing, Provençal rosé.
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Wine of the week: a simply sensational ChampagneReviews This 2007 is one of only a handful of truly great Champagnes I have tasted in the last 12 months, says Matthew Jukes.
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Wine of the week: a dark-hued, spicy, berry-stuffed beautyReviews The balance of fruit and acidity is pinpoint accurate in this Italian red that's perfect for drinking now.
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Wine of the week: a unique and very special pinot noir from New ZealandReviews The fruit in this Kiwi pinot noir is direct, pure and resonant, summing up the winemaker's intent in a single sip.
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Wine of the week: a fascinating and memorable Italian redReviews You will fall under this wine’s spell in just one sip.
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Wine of the week: an extraordinary Champagne going cheapReviews This is a stellar Champagne made from perfect ingredients.
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