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Features Wine Science 

Ageing wines in space? Sending dormant vines into space? Is this at all scientifically interesting?

April 1, 2021April 1, 2021 jamiegoode 8674 Views

Ageing wine in space? It’s all over the news at the moment, courtesy a rather bizarre publicity stunt that’s looking

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Beaujolais Features Regions 

Jean Max: the wines of Maxime Barrot, a new star of natural Beaujolais

March 31, 2021 jamiegoode 9148 Views Gamay, Natural wine

I was blown away when I tasted these wines from new natural wine negociant Jean Max (declaration of interest: they

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A Cabernet Franc study, with UK fine wine merchant Lay & Wheeler

March 29, 2021March 29, 2021 jamiegoode 6135 Views cabernet franc

This was a Zoom tasting with UK fine wine merchant Lay & Wheeler, with wines in small bottles courtesy of

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California Highlights 

Highlights: I Brand & Family Cabernet Franc Bayly Ranch 2017 Paicenes, California

March 28, 2021June 8, 2021 jamiegoode 5828 Views cabernet franc

Website: https://www.ibrandwinery.com/ I don’t know much about winemaker Ian Brand’s project in California, but I saw this wine, bought it,

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Gut Hermannsberg: visiting this Nahe winery, one of Germany’s top estates

March 27, 2021 jamiegoode 10056 Views Nahe

Website: https://gut-hermannsberg.de/en One of my few vineyard visits of 2020 was to Gut Hermannsberg, in Germany’s Nahe region. It was

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Cramele Recas: new releases from this significant Romanian wine producer

March 26, 2021 jamiegoode 6670 Views Romania

Cramele Recas is a large winery in Romania (1250 hectares of estate vineyards, production of 25 million bottles), making modern,

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Highlights Italy 

Highlights: Pietradolce Archineri Etna Rosso 2017 Sicily, Italy

March 25, 2021June 8, 2021 jamiegoode 6295 Views Sicily

Pietradolce was established in 2005 (first vintage 2009), and they have 11 hectares of vines planted in high altitude sites

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Highlights Italy 

Highlights: Querciabella Chianti Classico 2017 Tuscany, Italy

March 24, 2021June 8, 2021 jamiegoode 6542 Views chianti

This is Sangiovese from Greve, Radda and Gaiole, biodynamically farmed, made by Querciabella. The Greve vineyards are sandstone and sand

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Highlights Italy 

Highlights: La Stoppa Trebbiolo Rosso 2018 Vino Rosso, Italy

March 22, 2021June 8, 2021 jamiegoode 6638 Views Natural wine

How do you assess a wine like this Trebbiolo from La Stoppa? If you are a techno winemaker, you reject

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Highlights Spain 

Highlights: Bodega Lanzaga Corriente 2017 Rioja

March 22, 2021 jamiegoode 6528 Views Rioja

Telmo Rodriguez is well known for his wine brand that covers many of Spain’s top regions. He returned to Rioja

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Celebrating 25 years of star Canadian winery Tawse, with Celebrating 25 years of Tawse with two pairs of wines, one current, one archive

June 13, 2026 jamiegoode

Tawse, one of Canada’s top wineries, is 25. And last night, on my arrival into Niagara in advance of justing

Revela, where Mariana Salvador is making some exciting wines in Portugal’s Dão region
Features Latest Portugal 

Revela, where Mariana Salvador is making some exciting wines in Portugal’s Dão region

June 12, 2026 jamiegoode
Canada’s Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys (6) Nk’Mip
Canada Features Latest Regions 

Canada’s Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys (6) Nk’Mip

June 11, 2026 jamiegoode
Canada’s Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys (5) Quails’ Gate
Canada Features Latest Profiles 

Canada’s Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys (5) Quails’ Gate

June 11, 2026June 13, 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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