about us

Matthew Jukes is the wine buyer for Bibendum restaurant and Oyster bar in London, which has won Best Restaurant Wine List at the Carlton Food Awards.   He has also written wine lists, to rave reviews, for Amaya, Chutney Mary, Monte's and many other restaurants in the UK and abroad. He presented his own weekly radio feature on the BBC for five years.  He also presented Channel 4’s six-part TV series Wine Hunt and was a regular guest on BBC1’s prime-time Saturday night programme Friends Like These. 

He is the author of Wine (1999) and the number one best-selling wine guides The Wine List 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006, and now The Wine List 2007, all published by Headline.  And writes a weekly column in The Daily Mail read by over 8 million people every week.

He is a past winner of the International Wine and Spirit Competition’s Trophy for Communicator of the Year. 

Quentin Johnson has a background in the broader drinks industry and international marketing. His career has taken him all over the world, often happily providing excellent local tasting opportunities.

He has been buying (and drinking!) wine for many years, and even by Matthew's standards, has put together a pretty useful cellar. His passions are in particular Burgundy and Australia, although the rest of the New World and Italy occupy an increasing amount of cellar space. His other interests include cars, motorsport and real tennis.

matthewjukes.com was established to make finding good wine easier.  Matthew brings you the benefit of his tastings of thousands of wine per year, picking out his top finds. Then he writes about them in plain English. Matthew enjoys his wine, and likes to write about them that way. That doesn’t stop him from giving you an insight into the people, places and techniques behind the wines, but without bombarding you with jargon.    

matthewjukes.com is completely independent.  And covers the whole UK market. Any wine featured is because Matthew rates it, full stop.

matthewjukes.com does not sell wine - but helps you find the best and most interesting wines, and tells you where you can buy them.

registered address: 3 Noble Street, London EC2V 7EE.