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Month: August 2025

Features Latest Lebanon 

Mersel, exciting low intervention wines from special terroirs in Lebanon

August 13, 2025August 13, 2025 jamiegoode 873 Views

Website: https://www.merselwine.com/ Eddie Chami’s family comes from Lebanon, but moved to Australia in the 1960s. That’s where he grew up.

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Burgundy Features Food and wine Latest 

The Remedy is one of London’s best wine bars

August 12, 2025August 12, 2025 jamiegoode 1382 Views Restaurants

Website: https://theremedylondon.com/ Just north of Oxford Street, before you get to Regent’s Park, you’ll find one of the best places

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Features Latest 

The ‘Joan is awful’ effect, and why people working in wine shouldn’t fall for it

August 12, 2025August 12, 2025 jamiegoode 761 Views Business of wine

‘Joan Is Awful’ is the first episode of the sixth series of Black Mirror, written by Charlie Brooker. It aired

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Burgundy Features Latest Regions 

Discovering the Mâconnais (13) Domaines Auvigue

August 10, 2025August 11, 2025 jamiegoode 1350 Views Chardonnay, Maconnais

Website: https://www.loron.fr/en/en-domaines-auvigue/ Auvigue is the jewel in the crown of Maison Jean Loron, which is one of the oldest and

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Highlights Latest Rhone 

Highlights: Domaine Richaud Les Galets 2023 Côtes du Rhône, France

August 9, 2025August 9, 2025 jamiegoode 770 Views

This is a really impressive southern Rhône red from Richaud, a top producer in Cairanne. Domaine Richaud Les Galets 2023

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Burgundy Features Latest 

Discovering the Mâconnais (12) Les Vignerons de Mancey

August 8, 2025August 11, 2025 jamiegoode 1231 Views Maconnais

Website: https://www.lesvigneronsdemancey.fr/en/ Les Vignerons de Mancey is, as the name suggests, a cooperative cellar. But it’s a small cooperative, around

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Burgundy Features Latest 

Discovering the Mâconnais (11) Domaine Eric et Catherine Giroud

August 7, 2025August 11, 2025 jamiegoode 1196 Views Chardonnay, Maconnais

Website: https://www.domainegiroud.fr/ I met with Eric and Catherine on a lovely July day in one of their vineyards, along with

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Highlights: Niki Hills Winery Zweigeltrebe 2022 Hokkaido, Japan

August 7, 2025August 7, 2025 jamiegoode 740 Views

Niki Hills is an interesting winery based in Hokkaido, the northernmost island of Japan, which is turning out to be

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Visiting the Macedon Ranges, a cool-climate Australian wine region making some exciting wines (1) introduction

August 6, 2025August 6, 2025 jamiegoode 810 Views

Website: https://www.macedonrangeswine.com.au/ Macedon Ranges is a small, cool-climate region in Victoria, about an hour’s drive north of Melbourne. At altitudes

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Australia Features Latest 

Exploring the Macedon Ranges (3) Cobaw Ridge and Joshua Cooper Wines

August 6, 2025August 6, 2025 jamiegoode 1296 Views macedon ranges

Cobaw Ridge is a really interesting producer, based on the north side of the Macedon Ranges in Victoria, Australia. When

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Paying more for quality, and the crisis of affordability in wine
Features Latest 

Paying more for quality, and the crisis of affordability in wine

October 8, 2025October 8, 2025 jamiegoode

It costs money to make wine. Quite a bit of it, if it’s done well. The chief problem is this:

Visiting Aya Estate for the opening of their winery: Bulgarian wine playing at a new level
Bulgaria Features Latest Regions 

Visiting Aya Estate for the opening of their winery: Bulgarian wine playing at a new level

October 7, 2025October 7, 2025 jamiegoode
Bonhams is auctioning off the cellar of Locanda Locatelli, and a few of us get to try some of the gems over lunch
Features Italy Latest 

Bonhams is auctioning off the cellar of Locanda Locatelli, and a few of us get to try some of the gems over lunch

October 6, 2025October 6, 2025 jamiegoode
A quick guide to New Zealand wine
Features Latest New to wine New Zealand Regions 

A quick guide to New Zealand wine

October 5, 2025October 6, 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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