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Marlborough at 50: the grower’s story

February 23, 2023May 13, 2023 jamiegoode 5340 Views Marlborough

Marlborough, New Zealand’s largest wine region, relies heavily on growers. Wine arrived here relatively lately (first vineyard plantings of the

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Features Italy 

Piemonte mini study: eight interesting wines

February 21, 2023April 28, 2023 jamiegoode 4653 Views Nebbiolo, piedmont

I’m increasingly drawn to the red wines of Piemonte, and not just the great Barolos and Barbarescos. I recently tried

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Marlborough at 50: Dog Point, one of the region’s leading smaller wineries

February 20, 2023March 26, 2025 jamiegoode 9315 Views Marlborough

Dog Point was started by Ivan and Margaret Sutherland and James and Wendy Healy, who previously worked together at Cloudy

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Highlights Rhone 

Highlights: Dard & Ribo Crozes-Hermitage 2020

February 18, 2023April 28, 2023 jamiegoode 4269 Views syrah

Dard & Ribo Crozes-Hermitage 2020 Northern Rhône, FranceI can’t remember ever having a bad bottle from Dard & Ribo, the natural

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Features Latest New Zealand 

Marlborough at 50: the remarkable Yealands story

February 16, 2023May 13, 2023 jamiegoode 9018 Views

‘Think boldly, tread lightly, and never say it can’t be done:’ that’s the official motto Peter Yealands chose for the

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Marlborough at 50: Te Whare Ra, the region’s first boutique winery

February 14, 2023May 13, 2023 jamiegoode 7439 Views Marlborough

Website: https://www.twrwines.co.nz/ Te Whare Ra are one of the most interesting producers in Marlborough. When the vineyard was originally planted

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Features Wine Science 

How can wine regions combat rising temperatures?

February 13, 2023February 13, 2023 jamiegoode 5920 Views

Climate chaos is real. With highly irregular weather patterns, we are also seeing a warming trend across the world’s wine

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Features Spain 

L’Enclòs de Peralba, an exciting vineyard-focused project from Penedès

February 11, 2023March 7, 2023 jamiegoode 5982 Views Penedès

L’Enclòs de Peralba is the project of cousins Leo and Roc Gramona, who come from the Gramona family well known

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New to wine Wine Science 

What is a grape variety? What is a clone? Unpacking the science

February 9, 2023February 9, 2023 jamiegoode 28058 Views Chardonnay, pinot noir

We talk a lot about clones and grape varieties. But what, precisely, do these terms mean? Let’s first define ‘variety’.

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Features Italy 

Sassicaia: the famous wine from Tenuta San Guido that kick-started one of Italy’s most celebrated wine regions

February 7, 2023April 28, 2023 jamiegoode 10125 Views

Priscilla Incisa presented the 2020 vintage of this famous Tuscan estate in London, along with some back vintages. She is

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Exploring Bolgheri through the lens of one of its top estates: Ornellaia masterclass with Denise Cosentino

March 8, 2026March 8, 2026 jamiegoode

Website: https://www.ornellaia.com/en/ Denise is winemaker at Ornellaia, so it was great to have a chance to do a vertical of

Australia’s old vine heritage – a masterclass showing some Aussie classics
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Australia’s old vine heritage – a masterclass showing some Aussie classics

March 8, 2026March 8, 2026 jamiegoode
A beautiful dinner at Lakeview Palace in Macau, matching Chinese food with some top Chinese wines
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A beautiful dinner at Lakeview Palace in Macau, matching Chinese food with some top Chinese wines

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Another airline lounge raid, 12 wines tried

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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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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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