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, www.matthewjukes.com.
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: Charles Dickens’ favourite tipple
Reviews 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 giving
Reviews 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 elegance
Reviews 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 creation
Reviews 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 routine
Tips 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 rosé
Reviews 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 Etna
Reviews 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-lovers
Reviews 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 reds
Reviews Many Douro red wines seem to lack polish and sophistication. Not this one.
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Wine of the week: a phenomenal, plush chardonnay
Reviews 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 sparkler
Reviews 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 creature
Reviews 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 & Fox
Reviews These two new releases are worthy of extremely high praise.
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Wine of the week: five exquisite creations from Burgundy
Reviews 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 merlot
Reviews Leave your expensive clarets in the cellar and crack on with this terrific wine, says Matthew Jukes.
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A pulse-quickening sherry
Reviews Matthew Jukes tastes a bone dry, palate-invigorating, sharply tangy sherry.
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A joyous Bojo and a classic white Burg
Reviews 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 rosé
Reviews People go gaga for this sophisticated, amazing, Provençal rosé.
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Wine of the week: a simply sensational Champagne
Reviews 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 beauty
Reviews 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 Zealand
Reviews 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 red
Reviews You will fall under this wine’s spell in just one sip.
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Wine of the week: an extraordinary Champagne going cheap
Reviews This is a stellar Champagne made from perfect ingredients.
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Wine of the week: the most memorable gig in the wine world
Reviews Every so often a bottle of white Rhône sneaks up on my palate and completely blows me away.
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