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DWWA Regional Chair for Australia: Justin Knock MW

Justin Knock MW is the Joint Regional Chair with Huon Hooke for Australia at the Decanter World Wine Awards 2025.

Justin Knock MW

Australian national Justin Knock MW has lived in London since 2004. He is currently the Director of Wine for Decant London, a new fine wine merchant and importer based in central London.

Justin’s background is diverse and wide-ranging, having made wine in multiple regions of Australia for Treasury Wine Estates in Margaret River, the Hunter, the Yarra and McLaren Vale. He has worked in London retail (Philglas & Swiggot as a former owner), the fine and luxury wine investment market, in brand-building and distribution, bulk shipping and in education and marketing across Europe and the Middle East.

Also a former a Director of the California Wine Institute, Justin enjoys travel and fine wine from Australia, Greece, France, Italy and Germany in particular.

He is married to Lenka Sedlackova MW, the first Czech Master of Wine and DWWA Senior Judge for Greece.

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