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Features Wine Science 

Wine just tastes of wine: on objects and perception, part 1

December 29, 2020February 2, 2021 jamiegoode 8354 Views

How do we perceive wine? How do we make sense of the world around us? Is there such a thing

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Highlights Spain 

Highlights:Familia Nin-Ortiz Selma de Nin Finca La Sinia 2016 Vi de Tabula, Spain

December 28, 2020February 17, 2021 jamiegoode 6174 Views

Nin-Ortiz is Ester Nin (viticulturist for Daphne Glorian’s Clos Erasmus) and Carles Ortiz (grape grower), who met and merged there

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A Rueda study: exploring this important Spanish white wine region

December 28, 2020December 28, 2020 jamiegoode 8227 Views Rueda, Verdejo

Rueda is unusual in Spain for being a white wine region. It’s also unusual in that it’s almost, but not

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Features New Zealand 

Hawke’s Bay Chardonnay (2) six more top wines tasted

December 27, 2020February 17, 2021 jamiegoode 5900 Views Chardonnay, hawkes bay

A few days ago I reported on six of the twelve Chardonnays (and Ring added her notes, after tasting through

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Bordeaux Features Hungary 

Christmas wines 2020

December 26, 2020December 26, 2020 jamiegoode 6006 Views

Some wines tasted over the holiday period, with an emphasis on sweet and Bordeaux. Champagne Ruinart Blanc de Blancs Non

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Features New Zealand 

Hawke’s Bay Chardonnay (1) six top wines tasted

December 25, 2020February 17, 2021 jamiegoode 7875 Views champagne

January 6, 2021 – I received the same wines as Goode, a few weeks later, and thought it would be

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Champagne Highlights Latest 

Highlights: Champagne Robert Moncuit Blanc de Blancs Le Mesnil Sur Oger Grand Cru 2012

December 23, 2020 jamiegoode 6510 Views

Moncuit farm without herbicides and pesticides, and are organic but not certified. The base wine for this vintage 2012 is

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Features Portugal 

PORT.CLUB by Churchill’s

December 22, 2020 jamiegoode 7434 Views Douro, Port

Port.Club is a new membership retail platform by the Port House Churchill’s. For a drink that has laboured under a

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Features TOP STORIES 

The triune brain, and thinking of a triune wine tasting approach

December 21, 2020 jamiegoode 8582 Views

In our heads, we have a remarkable organ. The brain. It’s mushy and jelly-like, and it weighs around 1.4 kilograms.

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Highlights South Africa 

Highlights: Charla Haasbroek Cabernet Sauvignon 2017 Malgas, South Africa

December 20, 2020February 17, 2021 jamiegoode 6185 Views Cabernet Sauvignon

Charla Haasbroek is the winemaker at Sijnn in the Cape South Coast region of Malgas. It’s a special place, pioneered

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Canada Features Latest 

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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About Us

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.

This is an explanation of what an anorak is.

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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