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Highlights Latest South Africa 

Highlights: three stunning Chenins from Alheit

July 7, 2025 jamiegoode 1009 Views

Chris Alheit was presenting at the Chenin Congress 2025 in the Loire Valley, and he showed three recent releases. These

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Features Food and wine Latest Loire 

A night out in Angers: Cercle Rouge and Barco Vino

July 6, 2025 jamiegoode 1294 Views

Websites: https://www.barcovino.com/ | https://www.facebook.com/lecerclerougeangers?locale2=fr_FR# Had a really nice evening with a good crew in Angers. Two excellent drinking spots: Cercle

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Features Italy Latest Wine Science 

Vite Maritata: growing vines on trees, and tasting the Lèmme Lèmme from Buondomo

July 4, 2025July 5, 2025 jamiegoode 1920 Views

It was a real treat to taste this wine while I was in Tuscany, having seen one of the vineyards

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Features Latest Slovenia 

Slovenia: Domaine Slapšak with François Botton, who traded Champagne dreams for Dolejnska

July 4, 2025 jamiegoode 991 Views Sparkling wine

Website: https://www.domaine-slapsak.com/en/ François Botton is French, and hails from the Champagne region. But he didn’t grow up in a Champagne

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Features Latest Slovenia 

Cviček, a unique lighter red wine style from Slovenia, blending red and white grapes with low alcohol

July 4, 2025July 4, 2025 jamiegoode 1266 Views

This is a really interesting traditional style of wine that is extremely cheap locally, but which I think could have

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England Highlights Latest 

Highlights: Hambledon Classic Cuvée Rosé NV England

July 3, 2025 jamiegoode 743 Views

New release of this impressive rosé from Hambledon, one of the UK’s leading sparkling wine houses. [Aside: keep this out

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Highlights Latest Spain 

Highlights: Bien de Altura Tidao 4 2022 Gran Canaria, Spain

July 3, 2025 jamiegoode 1046 Views

A really impressive single vineyard wine from the talented Carmelo Peña, who also makes wine from Lanzarote. This is from

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Features Latest Slovenia 

Slovenia: Roka, Kog

July 1, 2025July 3, 2025 jamiegoode 966 Views

Liam and Sinead Cabot are from Ireland, where they currently run a successful wine importing business, Cabot & Co (https://www.cabotandco.com/).

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Features Latest Slovenia 

Slovenia: Marof, Prekmurje

June 30, 2025June 30, 2025 jamiegoode 1022 Views

I visited Marof in May 2023 on my first tour of Slovenia, and was impressed. On this trip, I caught

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Austria Features Latest Regions Slovenia 

Slovenia: visiting Tement and Domaine Ciringa, where Austria and Slovenia meet.

June 30, 2025June 30, 2025 jamiegoode 1746 Views

Website: https://www.tement.at/en/ Tement is an important producer in Austrian Styria, but their cellar in Zierreg is right on the border

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Cruse x Hirsch, tasting some Californian gems from this star partnership
California Features Latest 

Cruse x Hirsch, tasting some Californian gems from this star partnership

October 28, 2025October 29, 2025 jamiegoode

Californians Jasmine Hirsch and Michael Cruse are partners in life and wine, and they came to London to share their

Hatzidakis: a deep dive into these top Santorini wines
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Hatzidakis: a deep dive into these top Santorini wines

October 27, 2025 jamiegoode
Yarra Valley (5) Yarra Yering
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Yarra Valley (5) Yarra Yering

October 25, 2025October 26, 2025 jamiegoode
Tarrawarra winery, Yarra Valley
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Yarra (3) Tarrawarra

October 25, 2025October 26, 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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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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