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Features Loire Regions 

Loire red review: 9 wines from Chinon

April 14, 2021April 18, 2021 jamiegoode 19769 Views cabernet franc, Chinon

This is the third part of my series on the red wines of the Loire. These wines – all from

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Chile Highlights 

Highlights: Viña Leyda Syrah Reserva 2019 Leyda, Chile

April 13, 2021August 1, 2021 jamiegoode 6899 Views syrah

I visited Viña Leyda back in 2010, and at the time I described them as one of Chile’s most exciting

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Features Loire Regions 

Red wines from the Loire – a spotlight on an exciting category

April 12, 2021April 18, 2021 jamiegoode 14982 Views

I’ve recently been tasting through red wines from the Loire, and I’ve been really excited by what I found. In

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Latest Loire Regions 

Loire red review: Touraine, with notes on 22 wines

April 12, 2021June 8, 2021 jamiegoode 9810 Views

This is the second part in my series on the red wines from the Loire. From this tasting, there’s no

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Features Portugal Regions TOP STORIES 

Niepoort launch their amazing 2019 Vintage Port

April 10, 2021June 8, 2021 jamiegoode 12900 Views Douro, Port

Niepoort have launched their 2019 Vintage Port, in a tasting beamed live from the Niepoort Lodge in Vila Nova de

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Features South Africa 

Symmetry: amazing South African tonic essences from Tista Cristini

April 9, 2021April 9, 2021 jamiegoode 11547 Views soft drinks, tonics

Tista Cristini is the dude behind Symmetry Tonic Essences. He left South Africa for 15 years, and spent a decade

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Alsace Features 

Vivant: a new interactive online wine experience

April 8, 2021 jamiegoode 6880 Views

Michael Baum, Silicon Valley entrepreneur, entered the wine world in 2014 when he bought Château de Pommard in Burgundy. As

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Highlights South Africa 

Highlights: Mullineux Iron Syrah 2018 Swartland, South Africa

April 8, 2021June 8, 2021 jamiegoode 6501 Views swartland, syrah

Mullineux is one of the Swartland’s most important wineries. In 2011 they launched two terroir-specific Syrahs: Schist and Granite. In

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Profiles Regions Uruguay 

Discovering the wines of Uruguay: Cerro Chapeu/Castel Pujol, the wines of the Carrau family

April 7, 2021 jamiegoode 9438 Views tannat

I met with owner/winemaker Dr Francisco Carrau and his daughter Pia Carrau to taste these wines. The name of the

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Burgundy Highlights 

Highlights: Domaine Dureuil-Janthial Rully 2018 Bourgogne, France

April 7, 2021June 8, 2021 jamiegoode 7659 Views Chardonnay

So impressed by this. One of the few benefits from rising prices in Burgundy is that people are beginning to

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Santuvario, a natural wine producer in Alto Piemonte, Italy
Features Italy Latest 

Santuvario, a natural wine producer in Alto Piemonte, Italy

October 16, 2026 jamiegoode

Santuvario is a small natural wine producer based in the town of Borgomanero in Alto Piemonte, at the foot of

Otrepò Pavese Classese: tasting through a large range of these impressive Pinot Noir-based sparkling wines from northwest Italy
Features Italy Latest Regions Sparkling wine 

Otrepò Pavese Classese: tasting through a large range of these impressive Pinot Noir-based sparkling wines from northwest Italy

October 15, 2026October 15, 2026 jamiegoode
Hazendal, a Stellenbosch wine estate transformed
Features Latest South Africa 

Hazendal, a Stellenbosch wine estate transformed

October 14, 2026October 14, 2026 jamiegoode
Galiza: a seminar focusing on the wines of Galicia, Spain
Features Latest Spain 

Galiza: a seminar focusing on the wines of Galicia, Spain

October 12, 2026October 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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