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Year: 2021

Highlights South Africa 

Highlights: Nero, South Africa’s first Nero d’Avola

February 24, 2021February 24, 2021 jamiegoode 9085 Views

Bosman Family Vineyards have just launched South Africa’s first Nero d’Avola. The wine is a collaboration with actor/filmmaker Thapelo Mokoena,

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Features Portugal 

The wines of Júlio Bastos/Dona Maria, from Portugal’s Alentejo

February 22, 2021February 22, 2021 jamiegoode 7932 Views Alentejo

Júlio Bastos is one of the leading winemakers in Portugal’s Alentejo region, and his family property, located near Estremoz, is

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Features Wine Science 

Should wine critics be declaring ratings from samples taken with Coravin, or from small bottles?

February 21, 2021 jamiegoode 8438 Views

I think wine critics should indicate when the sample they have tasted has been Coravined. As a producer, if I

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Chile Features Italy 

An ode to Carménère, Grande Vidure, Merlot Peumo…

February 19, 2021June 8, 2021 Lisse Garnett 5739 Views carmenere

Lisse Garnett reports on this Coelocanth of grape varieties. Once a major Bordeaux variety, Carménère was wiped out in the

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gonzalez byass las palmas sherries
Features Regions Spain 

Gonzalez Byass: 10 years of the Las Palmas Sherries

February 18, 2021February 18, 2021 jamiegoode 7246 Views sherry

Back in 2011, Gonzalez Byass had a great idea. Winemaker Antonio Flores had been reading an old book about sherry,

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Features Hungary Regions 

Furmint study: investigating the dry wines from Hungary’s famous white grape

February 16, 2021February 17, 2021 jamiegoode 11715 Views Furmint, tokaji

Hungary used to be the third biggest wine producing country in the world, says Caroline Gilby who was leading this

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Highlights 

Highlights: Vignoble du Rêveur Un Instant sur Terre 2019

February 15, 2021February 16, 2021 Treve Ring 6962 Views Alsace, biodynamic, France, Natural wine

Mathieu Deiss, who works with his father Jean-Michel at Alsace’s legendary winery Marcel Deiss, created Vignoble du Rêveur in 2013. Translating

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Spain Videos 

Video: with Ramiro Ibáñez of Bodega Cota 45 (UBE, Pangorda, Agostado)

February 14, 2021February 14, 2021 jamiegoode 6535 Views sherry

There is a revolution afoot in the Marco de Jerez (the Sherry Triangle that includes Jerez, El Puerto and Sanlúcar).

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Features TOP STORIES 

An ode to Carignan, Carineña, Mazuelo…

February 12, 2021February 19, 2021 Lisse Garnett 7456 Views Carignan

Lisse Garnett spells an ode to Carignan, a variety that never seems to get any credit. And Jamie Goode taste

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Videos 

My sake journey

February 12, 2021March 4, 2021 jamiegoode 5620 Views

I’ve decided that it’s time for me to start studying sake formally. I’ve been to Japan several times, and even

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Champagne Salon and Delamotte: the 2015 Salon release, and a look at the current Delamotte range
Champagne Features Latest Regions TOP STORIES 

Champagne Salon and Delamotte: the 2015 Salon release, and a look at the current Delamotte range

September 26, 2025September 27, 2025 jamiegoode

Champagne Delamotte is based in Le Mesnil-sur-Oger, a grand cru village in the Côte des Blancs. It was founded back

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
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

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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.

This is an explanation of what an anorak is.

Disclosure: unless otherwise clearly marked, the articles on this site are free of conflicts of interest. Any sponsored content will be clearly marked, and potential conflicts of interest will also be disclosed. As is normal in the wine industry, many of the wines tasted here are free samples and some travel is sponsored by others (for example, regional bodies or groups of producers), but in these cases no guarantees of coverage are given.

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