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Highlights New York State 

Highlights: Red Tail Ridge ‘Frost Smoke’ Blau Franc Blend 2021 Finger Lakes

March 30, 2023April 23, 2023 jamiegoode 5420 Views Blaufrankisch, cabernet franc

I’m in Syracuse at a wine conference (Bev NY 2023) and I had a free night, so I went into

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Features Greece Profiles 

Exploring Greece (2) Rouvalis Winery, Aigialeia

March 29, 2023April 28, 2023 jamiegoode 7053 Views

Website: https://www.rouvaliswinery.gr/en/ This was a great visit to a winery making excellent wines from some spectacular terroirs. We are in

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Features 

A global Chenin mini-study

March 26, 2023April 28, 2023 jamiegoode 4758 Views Chenin Blanc

There’s some interest in Chenin Blanc in California. I was at the Jackson Family Wines annual winegrowing summit in Santa

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California Features 

A blind tasting of California Cabernet Sauvignon, including some of the best-sellers in the USA

March 23, 2023April 28, 2023 jamiegoode 12231 Views Cabernet Sauvignon

This was a chance to taste 8 Cabernet Sauvignon wines blind, which is always fun. Below are my notes and

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All things about French wine from Taste France magazine

March 23, 2023March 23, 2023 jamiegoode 4363 Views

Taste France Magazine is a global-facing online magazine with a goal to share engaging content on French food and drinks,

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Features Profiles Regions South Africa 

Savage Wines: one of South Africa’s top producers, making balanced, elegant wines

March 20, 2023April 28, 2023 jamiegoode 25515 Views

Duncan Savage’s first solo vintage was as long ago as 2011, but he still seems to be a fresh face

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Features 

Candour wine: taking canned wine seriously

March 19, 2023April 28, 2023 jamiegoode 4974 Views

Website: https://candourwine.com/ Candour wines is a new venture trying to do something a bit different with canned wine. Instead of

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Features 

AI will be terrible for media, and it may already be too late to stop

March 18, 2023April 28, 2023 jamiegoode 6321 Views

Just what we need: another article about the rapid rise to prominence of artificial intelligence, and the content it is

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Features France Profiles 

Domaine Capmartin, naturally made wines from southwest France

March 16, 2023April 28, 2023 jamiegoode 6437 Views

Website: Domaine Capmartin, southwest France This is a family winery, now run by Simon Capmartin. His father created the domaine

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Features New Zealand Wine Science 

Marlborough at 50: a new project to safeguard the vineyard of the future, using accelerated clonal selection

March 15, 2023May 13, 2023 jamiegoode 9415 Views

So the Marlborough wine region turns 50 this year. With its continued growth and success, you could forgive the region

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Notes from a remarkable long lunch at Gaveto in Matosinhos, Portugal, with Niepoort, Transmission and friends, plus some amazing Champagnes
Champagne Features Latest Portugal Regions 

Notes from a remarkable long lunch at Gaveto in Matosinhos, Portugal, with Niepoort, Transmission and friends, plus some amazing Champagnes

September 16, 2026 jamiegoode

As far as lunches go, this was one of the best I’ve had in recent years, held at the remarkable

Going to the football? Like good wine? A tasting trip through Islington’s wine bars pairs well with tickets for a north London matchday
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Going to the football? Like good wine? A tasting trip through Islington’s wine bars pairs well with tickets for a north London matchday

September 14, 2026 jamiegoode
Pfalz Riesling: tasting through some of the top examples at the VDP tasting 2026
Features Germany Latest 

Pfalz Riesling: tasting through some of the top examples at the VDP tasting 2026

September 14, 2026September 14, 2026 jamiegoode
the central dozen - 12 central otago pinot noirs
Features Latest New Zealand Regions 

The Central Dozen, an important exercise in telling the contemporary story of Central Otago Pinot Noir through a curated selection of 12 bottles

September 12, 2026September 12, 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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