The stars aligned in several ways for Matthew Jukes' 100 Best Australian Wines tasting on 30 May in London. Firstly, the room in Australia House was a veritable who's who of the British wine trade, attended by dozens of top writers, buyers, importers and retailers, all of whom were tasting keenly – no mean feat for spoilt professionals who so often get access to great wine from all over the world.
Secondly, the wines themselves were a pantheon of celestial names, hand-picked by Matthew Jukes for this fifteenth edition of his annual guide, designed to be the best-in-class examples for...