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Champagne Features 

New releases from Champagne Ayala, including 2013 La Perle

June 7, 2023July 9, 2023 jamiegoode 4047 Views

These are the new releases from Champagne Ayala, the sister house to Bollinger (but run completely separately) in Aÿ. Founded

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Features Italy 

Piemonte adventure (3) Barolo, Castiglione Falletto, Alba and Bra

June 5, 2023July 9, 2023 jamiegoode 7943 Views Piemonte

A day of travel. From La Morra, to Barolo on a Sunday morning. This may be the village the famous

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Champagne Highlights 

Highlights: Champagne Bollinger Rosé NV

June 4, 2023July 9, 2023 jamiegoode 3789 Views

Unfortunately, unlike the regular NV, I can’t get this in the local convenience store for £34. But I really like

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Features Portugal Sponsored content 

Exploring Portugal’s Tejo wine region (5) tasting the wines

June 2, 2023 jamiegoode 6117 Views Tejo

This was a large tasting of Tejo wines, many of which had scored highly at a large competition in the

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Exploring Portugal’s Tejo wine region (2) Pedro Sereno and Marquês de Tomar

June 2, 2023July 6, 2023 jamiegoode 7641 Views Tejo

Pedro Sereno represents the new face of Tejo. He’s making relatively small quantities of terroir-focused wines from the Tomar in

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Exploring Portugal’s Tejo wine region (3) Casal de Coelheira

June 2, 2023June 2, 2023 jamiegoode 6636 Views Tejo

Nuno Falcão Rodrigues’ parents bought Casal de Coelheira in 1986, and he started working here in 1992. It’s the last

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Features Portugal Sponsored content 

Exploring Portugal’s Tejo wine region (4) Quinta do Casal Monteiro

June 2, 2023June 2, 2023 jamiegoode 6570 Views Tejo

Casal Monteiro is a relatively large vineyard that is purely on the Campo terroir of the Tejo. They are just

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Features Portugal Sponsored content 

Exploring Portugal’s Tejo wine region (1) an introduction

June 2, 2023June 5, 2023 jamiegoode 6363 Views

In this series of articles, published together, I’m going to be exploring the Tejo wine region in Portugal, which has

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Features Wine Science 

Grafted versus ungrafted vines: Francs de Pied re-open the debate

June 1, 2023June 1, 2023 jamiegoode 16144 Views

There’s a new organization in the world of fine wine. It looks a bit like an elite members club from

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Features Spain 

Cava discovery (2) Parés Baltà

May 30, 2023November 9, 2023 jamiegoode 5107 Views cava, Penedès

Website: https://paresbalta.com/en/ Part one of this exploration of Cava begins with Parés Baltà. They are one of the most exciting

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Exploring Vinho Verde: visiting star producer Anselmo Mendes

June 2, 2026June 2, 2026 jamiegoode

One of the most important people in the transformation of Vinho Verde from a region of gassy ephemeral wines into

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Features Latest Portugal 

Current releases from Dão legend Antonio Madeira

June 1, 2026June 1, 2026 jamiegoode
Restaurants: dinner at La Trompette, Chiswick, with three interesting wines
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Restaurants: dinner at La Trompette, Chiswick, with three interesting wines

June 1, 2026 jamiegoode
Pannobile – meeting this coalition of amazing Burgenland producers, who are making some of Austria’s most interesting wines
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Pannobile – meeting this coalition of amazing Burgenland producers, who are making some of Austria’s most interesting wines

May 31, 2026 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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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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