Features Latest TOP STORIES

2016, looking back a decade from 2026

January 18, 2026 jamiegoode 97 Views

2016 was quite a year for me. A transition year with a lot of travel.

New Zealand (Central Otago, Maude)

New Zealand trip (Central Otago, Two Paddocks)

New Zealand trip (North Canterbury, Black Estate)

California trip (Sta Rita Hills)

Bordeaux (pictured here with M Rolland)

Tejo, Portugal

Champagne trip (here in the cellars of Selosse)

Beaujolais

Germany (Rheinhessen, Franken, Ahr, Wurtemburg, Mosel, Rheingau)

Germany

Alsace

In South Africa judging top 10 Chenin

South Africa, Delaire Graff

Lunch in Cape Town with friends

Okanagan, Canada

With Elaine Brown in the Okanagan, doing a fam trip before the NWACs

Similkameen, BC, Canada

Victoria, BC, lecturing

Victoria, dawn

Quick trip to Rioja with the Lallemand crew: this is at Contino

Oregon: IPNC then the coast, then Portland

Portland

Douro Valley, Napoles

Douro, Vargellas

Bordeaux, Sauternes harvest

Bordeaux, Thomas Duroux, Palmer

Provence

Doing vintage, Ontario, Canada

Australia for the AWITC, here with Drew Noon, McLaren Vale

Rioja trip with Vintae

Nova Scotia, Canada

Chile (Sena)

Argentina (Dona Paula)

Madeira

← Highlights: Sandrine Henriot Régnié Lachat 2022 Beaujolais, France