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Year: 2021

England Features 

The Business of English Wine (3): making it and selling it

November 10, 2021December 14, 2021 Lisse Garnett 8110 Views

In the third of our series on English wine, Lisse Garnett speaks to three contrasting wine producers about this year’s

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Germany Highlights 

Highlights: Fritz Haag Brauneberger Riesling Kabinett 2017 Mosel, Germany

November 8, 2021December 14, 2021 jamiegoode 5519 Views Mosel

I really liked this: a great example of Mosel Kabinett, from two neighbouring vineyards in Brauneberg. Fritz Haag Brauneberger Riesling

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Highlights Rhone 

Highlights: Stephane Ogier Les Temps est Venu 2018 Côtes du Rhône, France

November 6, 2021December 14, 2021 jamiegoode 4313 Views

Stephane Ogier Les Temps est Venu 2018 Côtes du Rhône, France14.5% alcohol. Ogier is one of the best producers in

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Features Italy Regions 

Langhe Nebbiolo, a study

November 6, 2021January 3, 2023 jamiegoode 9144 Views Nebbiolo, piedmont

Langhe Nebbiolo is a success story, but some of this success may be coming at the expense of other local

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Chianti from Frescobaldi

November 4, 2021 jamiegoode 5481 Views chianti, Tuscany

Marchesi Frescobaldi is an old Tuscan family wine company that dates back an astonishing 700 years. It’s currently headed up

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California Features Latest Profiles 

The wines of Château Montelena, Napa, California

November 3, 2021November 7, 2021 jamiegoode 5326 Views Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Napa

Website: https://montelena.com/ Historic Napa winery Chateau Montelena dates back to 1882. This is when Alfred L. Tubbs planted the vineyard

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Highlights Portugal 

Highlights: Cortes de Cima Daqui 2020 Alentejo, Portugal

October 31, 2021December 14, 2021 jamiegoode 4079 Views

Daqui, and amphora (known here as talha) wine, is the first of the new wines from Anna Jørgensen, since she

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Canada Features Profiles 

Tantalus: one of the star wineries from the Okanagan Valley, BC, Canada

October 28, 2021November 7, 2021 jamiegoode 7578 Views okanagan

Tantalus is based in Kelowna, looking down onto the lake. Eric Savics, a stockbroker, bought the property in 2003, which

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Champagne Profiles 

Champagne Drappier, a forward-thinking house from the south of the region

October 27, 2021December 14, 2021 jamiegoode 7509 Views

Website: https://www.champagne-drappier.com/en/ Drappier are a forward-thinking, family-owned Champagne house based in Urville in the Côte des Bar, a village of

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Beaujolais Features Latest Regions 

An evening of Beaujolais, reinforcing the fact that some of them can age

October 26, 2021 jamiegoode 6014 Views

Edouard Parinet of Château Moulin-à-Vent was in town. He’s collaborated with dynamic restaurateur Xavier Rousset to make a special cuvée,

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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.

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