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Year: 2021

England Features Profiles Regions 

Simpsons Wine Estate: leading still and sparkling wines from the Kent North Downs, England

November 19, 2021November 19, 2021 jamiegoode 7293 Views

Website: https://simpsonswine.com/ Jamie Goode and Lisse Garnett visit a relatively new winery in the Kent North Downs who are making

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England Videos 

Video: visiting Simpsons wine estate, Kent, England

November 19, 2021 jamiegoode 6251 Views

Jamie Goode and Lisse Garnett visit the Simpsons winery in East Kent. In 2016 Charles and Ruth Simpson, who’d already

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Features New to wine Wine Science 

Regenerative viticulture: what is it, and why all the fuss now?

November 18, 2021 jamiegoode 35939 Views

There are lots of different ways of farming vineyards. Conventional, sustainable, organic, biodynamic – and now we have the newcomer

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Highlights Portugal 

Highlights: Cortes de Cima Lour-inho 2019 Alentejo, Portugal

November 16, 2021December 14, 2021 jamiegoode 4677 Views Albarino, Alentejo

Very impressed with this blend of Alvarinho (aka Albariño) with Loureiro – two grapes from the cool Minho, grown here

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Bordeaux Videos 

Video: tasting Bordeaux 2019 in bottle

November 16, 2021November 16, 2021 jamiegoode 5519 Views

A short film from the Union des Grands Crus tasting of 2019 Bordeaux held in London, November 2021 For the

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Bordeaux Features Regions 

Bordeaux 2019 in bottle: 95 top wines tasted and rated

November 15, 2021January 26, 2023 jamiegoode 16965 Views

This was the first chance to taste through a wide selection of top Bordeaux reds from the 2019 vintage in

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Features Italy Profiles 

Querciabella, one of Tuscany’s top wineries, who employ vegan biodynamics

November 14, 2021December 14, 2021 jamiegoode 9338 Views chianti

Querciabella was founded in 1974 by Giuseppe (Pepito) Castiglioni, who had made money in steel and had fallen in love

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Features TOP STORIES 

Vivino: Heini Zacchariassen on how his app has changed the world of wine

November 13, 2021 jamiegoode 11707 Views

Although its only just over a decade old, Vivino already has 53 million users, and is trusted by many as

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Features 

How has social media influenced the work of wine journalists? And what social media strategies should wineries take?

November 12, 2021November 13, 2021 jamiegoode 6575 Views

This is a written version of a talk that I gave at the #winecom congress on communication and wine in

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Regions Spain 

Garnacha from Navarra

November 12, 2021December 14, 2021 jamiegoode 5643 Views navarra

I’m in Pamplona for a couple of days, in the Navarra wine region. Today I’m speaking at a conference on

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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.

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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