Matthew Jukes named Honorary Australian of the Year

Wine writer Matthew Jukes has joined luminaries such as Sir David Attenborough and Alan Whicker in being named Honorary Australian of the Year. The award was announced on Sunday night at the Australia Day Foundation Dinner at Australia House, reports Decanter. The Daily Mail columnist and Decanter contributor was given the award not only for his ‘long-term passion for, and on-going commitment to, the Australian wine industry’, the Australia Day Foundation said, but also for his contribution to charity.