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Year: 2021

Alsace Regions 

The wines of Mann, Alsace

September 17, 2021September 17, 2021 jamiegoode 7006 Views

Website: www.vins-mann.com Domaine Jean-Louis et Fabienne Mann is based in Eguisheim, 7 kilometers south of Colmar. The family used to

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Features Japan TOP STORIES 

From Champagne to sake, Richard Geoffroy starts a new chapter with IWA sake

September 16, 2021September 16, 2021 jamiegoode 10908 Views sake

Website: https://iwa-sake.jp/ Richard Geoffroy was for a long time the face of Dom Pérignon. But after being associated with this

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South Africa Videos 

Tasting some highlights from the Cape Winemakers Guild Auction 2021

September 15, 2021September 17, 2021 jamiegoode 5823 Views

Jamie Goode, Greg Sherwood and Lisse Garnett taste some of the wines from the Cape Winemakers Guild Auction 2021, which

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Features Spirits 

American whisky: a tasting to celebrate Bourbon Heritage Month

September 14, 2021 jamiegoode 4081 Views whisky

In 2007 the US Senate declared September to be Bourbon Heritage Month. So in celebration of this, some American whisky

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Highlights New Zealand 

Highlights: Yealands Sauvignon Blanc 2021 Marlborough, New Zealand

September 13, 2021 jamiegoode 6565 Views Sauvignon Blanc

I’ve tried my first wine from 2021! I saw this in Sainsbury’s and was curious, so I bought it and

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Features 

An ode to Palomino: still wines made from old vine Palomino offer a new narrative for this ‘neutral’ industrialised yet historic grape variety

September 12, 2021July 8, 2024 Lisse Garnett 10487 Views palomino, sherry

Lisse Garnett gathers evidence for the defence and tastes with Jamie Goode Palomino Fino, Listan Blanco, Listán de Jerez, Malvasia

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Spirits 

The Oxford Artisan Distillery: Oxford Rye, and limited editions #2 and #3

September 12, 2021September 12, 2021 jamiegoode 4104 Views

Website: https://www.theoxfordartisandistillery.com/oxford-rye-whisky The Oxford Artisan Distillery is an interesting project. These four whiskies are all based on a grain harvest

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Champagne Highlights 

Highlights: Champagne Taittinger Comtes de Champagne 2011

September 10, 2021October 1, 2021 jamiegoode 6425 Views

This is the new release of Taittinger’s prestige cuvée, Comtes de Champagne. Its from Grand Cru sites on the Côte

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Highlights Regions South Africa 

Highlights: Great Heart Red Blend 2019 Swartland, South Africa

September 9, 2021September 9, 2021 jamiegoode 6411 Views

I really like this initiative from Mullineux and Leeu Family Wines in South Africa. Great Heart is a staff empowerment

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Champagne Features Regions 

Peter Liem on Champagne: dosage, growers versus houses, and viticulture

September 8, 2021 jamiegoode 9430 Views

At the BeWine festival in Kyiv, Ukraine, Peter Liem was one of the headline speakers. He gave a thoughtful presentation

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Icelandic pharma-titan, Robert Wessman of Maison Wessman in Bergerac and his Wine Director, Lise Sadirac, fight for a new Issigeac micro-appellation with musical backing from Nora Jones 
Features France France Latest 

Icelandic pharma-titan, Robert Wessman of Maison Wessman in Bergerac and his Wine Director, Lise Sadirac, fight for a new Issigeac micro-appellation with musical backing from Nora Jones 

September 25, 2025September 25, 2025 Lisse Garnett

Wessman seeks vinous validation for Issigeac and Conne-de-Labarde, which lie on a clearly defined limestone plateau and merit their own micro-appellation according to Vineyard Director Lise Sadirac, who is working hard to convince the INAO. The layered limestone plateau of D’Issigeac took 1.5 million years to form. Vines take a decade to root in the fissured rock, where soil is a mere 20cm deep. Bergerac has 13 appellations and no distinct identity. Fine wine would benefit from a perceptible point of difference and a dose of celebrity stardust.

The Judgement of Cape Town
Features Latest South Africa 

The Judgement of Cape Town

September 23, 2025September 23, 2025 Treve Ring
Weingut Rosi Schuster, with Hannes Schuster, who’s making some of Austria’s best wines
Austria Features Latest Regions 

Weingut Rosi Schuster, with Hannes Schuster, who’s making some of Austria’s best wines

September 22, 2025September 22, 2025 jamiegoode
Tomcsányi: natural wines from Somló, Hungary
Features Hungary Latest 

Tomcsányi: natural wines from Somló, Hungary

September 21, 2025September 21, 2025 jamiegoode

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Wine anorak is one of the leading wine websites. This is the latest version of the site that began life in 1999, and was founded by Jamie Goode, who at the time was working as a science editor.

Since then it has grown, and Jamie is now a full-time wine writer, lecturer, wine judge and book author.

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