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Highlights: Thierry Germain Clos de L’Echelier 2019 Saumur Champigny

March 7, 2022May 15, 2022 jamiegoode 5812 Views

This is impressive: it’s a varietal Cabernet Franc from a 2.5 hectare clos, surrounded by a 300 year old wall.

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Champagne Regions 

Sip Champagnes: 10 top wines from this new UK importer

March 6, 2022May 15, 2022 jamiegoode 7249 Views

Sip Champagnes is a specialist Champagne importer established by Peter Crawford in 2020. Peter has been travelling to the region

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Profiles Regions Spain 

Lalomba: an exciting new project from Rioja

March 6, 2022May 15, 2022 jamiegoode 7893 Views Rioja

[Original article from October 2020, updated March 2022] Lalomba is an exciting new project from Ramón Bilbao, one of Spain’s

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Red Newt: tasting some of the Finger Lakes’ best wines with winemaker Kelby Russell

March 5, 2022March 5, 2022 jamiegoode 6081 Views Finger Lakes

Kelby Russell was in town, so I caught up with him at his importers, The Wine Treasury, to taste through

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Features Italy Profiles 

The wines of Giulia Negri, Barolo

March 3, 2022May 15, 2022 jamiegoode 21508 Views barolo

Guilia Negri is emerging as an exciting star in Barolo, but her journey isn’t a typical one. She was born

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Features Spain 

Spain’s reinvention: how new wines and new styles have made Spain one of the world’s most exciting wine countries

March 2, 2022May 15, 2022 jamiegoode 9238 Views

Each new year, I go through all the notes I’ve taken on wines that I’ve drunk over the previous 365

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The most famous Italian red wines and their pairings

March 1, 2022March 2, 2022 jamiegoode 8189 Views

Italy is one of the world’s leading wine countries. From the relatively cool mountainous north, down to the hot southerly

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Beaujolais Features TOP STORIES 

A natural Beaujolais fest at Soif

February 28, 2022 jamiegoode 5974 Views

Les Caves de Pyrene are a UK wine importer who have shown a big commitment to Beaujolais over the years.

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Wine Science 

The closest we’ve come to GM vines: the Colmar trials looking to defeat fanleaf virus

February 26, 2022May 15, 2022 jamiegoode 6419 Views

There are currently no genetically modified vines, but the closest we have come is transgenic rootstocks resistant to a major

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Profiles Spain TOP STORIES 

Muchada-Léclapart: amazing unfortified white wines from Sanlúcar

February 26, 2022February 27, 2022 jamiegoode 14750 Views palomino, sherry

Muchada-Léclapart is an exciting new project based in Sanlúcar de Barrameda in the Marco de Jerez (the wider Sherry region),

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The new releases from Radford Dale, including Elgin and Vinum bottlings from 2025
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The new releases from Radford Dale, including Elgin and Vinum bottlings from 2025

August 10, 2026August 10, 2026 jamiegoode

Website: https://www.radforddale.com/ I have been following the wines of Radford Dale with some interest over the last three years. The

Unusual grape varieties: a tasting at Shrine to the Vine
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Unusual grape varieties: a tasting at Shrine to the Vine

August 9, 2026August 11, 2026 jamiegoode
Minimalist Wines, the exciting South African Syrah-focused winery of Sam Lambson
Features Latest Regions South Africa 

Minimalist Wines, the exciting South African Syrah-focused winery of Sam Lambson

August 8, 2026 jamiegoode
Bordeaux Claret: the new AOC Bordeaux Claret Controllée is an interesting move, broadening the appeal of Bordeaux reds
Bordeaux Features Latest 

Bordeaux Claret: the new AOC Bordeaux Claret Controllée is an interesting move, broadening the appeal of Bordeaux reds

August 6, 2026August 6, 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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