Journalists and Authors...

Wine Buying: started working in the wine trade in April 1987. Wine buyer for Bibendum Restaurant & Oyster Bar (London SW3, www.bibendum.co.uk) from 1990 – present day. Carlton Food and Drink Award winner for The Most Outstanding Wine List. ‘undoubtedly one of the finest wine lists in the country’, ‘one of the most enthralling wine lists in the capital’ – Good Food Guide.

Wine Consultant to Chutney Mary (London SW10), which won Best Indian Restaurant in the Carlton Food Awards and its sister restaurant, Amaya (London SW1), which has picked up Best Newcomer and Best Restaurant in the same competition. Quintessentially Wine (Buying Director) was set up in September 2005 to track down the most fascinating parcels of wine in the world for members of the exclusive private members club Quintessentially, with offices in London and Hong Kong. www.quintessentiallywine.com.

Radio & TV: Three years as weekly wine correspondent for BBC GLR 94.9FM. Various contributing slots on SKY 1, BBC 1 News, Working Lunch, BBC Radio 4, Channel Five News, The Today Programme, Granada TV, Carlton TV, Good Food Live, This Morning, Richard & Judy, Friends Like These with Ant & Dec and Ian Wright (BBC1 -10 million viewers), the Audi Channel and sole presenter of Channel 4’s six-part wine series – Wine Hunt.

Wine Writing: Weekly wine correspondent and features writer for the Daily Mail since January 2000 – Weekend Magazine (over 9 million readers throughout the week – the largest colour magazine in Europe). ‘In a recent survey, UK retailers were asked which wine writer had the most influence over their customers. The answer was, unanimously, Matthew Jukes’ – Harpers Wine & Spirit Weekly.

Co-owner and palate behind the cult online wine newsletter – www.matthewjukes.com - Issues include in-depth, first-to-market en-primeur reports - Bordeaux and Burgundy and larger features such as - 100 Best Australian Wines 2008, Cape Wine 2006 report (acclaimed by senior UK trade buyers as the most comprehensive review of the state of South African wine to date) and the annual New Zealand Report (devoured by buyers and agents alike).

Author of the UK’s number one best-selling annual wine guide – The Wine List – Headline (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007). The Wine Book – change the way you think about wine – Headline, was published in paperback in September 2007. Contributor to The Times (restaurant reviewer), The Guardian (travel writing), British Airways High Life Magazine (wine and travel writing), Waitrose Food Illustrated (food and wine matching articles) and Decanter Magazine.

Co-author, with Tyson Stelzer, of the annual wine and food guide, Taste Food & Wine 2007, published in Australia, launched autumn 2006 – 80,000 copies printed – number one bestseller. Taste Food & Wine 2008 was published in September 2007 in Australia and New Zealand.

Wine Lecturing and Judging: Founder of ‘One Day Wine School’ – with six sell-out dates in the UK each year. Annual nationwide lecture programme – including Hay on Wye, Oxford Literary and Edinburgh Book Festivals. International Judge at the Air New Zealand Awards 2004, Clare Valley Wine Show 2005, International Judge at the Sydney Royal Wine Show 2006 and Adelaide Hills Wine Show 2006. Moderator for the ANZ Australian Wine Marketing Conference 2005, Stonier Pinot Noir Seminar 2006, Pinot Noir 2007 in Wellington NZ and Mornington Peninsula Pinot Noir Celebration 2007. Inventor of The Great Australian Red challenge with Brisbane-based wine writer Tyson Stelzer. The results of this challenge are published in Taste 2008. International judge for the Hunter Valley Wine Show in August 2008.

Other: Founder and Patron of Touch Wine – Annual Touch Footy and wine tasting event held in Adelaide’s parklands to raise money for the homeless at the Hutt Street Centre in Adelaide. The next event is on 9th November 2008 in Adelaide. Touch Life was launched, along the same lines, in April 2008 in the Hunter Valley, NSW and it raised money for the Sydney and Newcastle branches of the Wesley Mission.

Awards: In April 2002 Matthew was awarded the highly prestigious International Wine and Spirit Competition’s Trophy for Communicator of the Year. Previous UK winners are Hugh Johnson and Jancis Robinson.