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Features 

Do I miss travel?

March 1, 2021March 2, 2021 jamiegoode 5057 Views

Do I miss travel? Ok, good question. For the last four years before 2020 I was spending around 300 days

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New to wine Videos 

Video: how wine is made

February 28, 2021 jamiegoode 25282 Views

Jamie Goode explains how wine is made, with clips of the process in action from around the wine world.

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Longaví’s ‘Glup’: superb wines from the south of Chile

February 27, 2021 jamiegoode 12008 Views

Longaví is a collaboration between David Nieuwoudt from South Africa and Julio Bouchon of Chile. The wines come from the

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England Profiles 

Langham Wine Estate: sparkling wines from Dorset, England

February 25, 2021June 8, 2021 jamiegoode 7162 Views

Langham Wine Estate are based in Dorset, part of the Langham Agricultural Enterprise which covers over 1000 hectares. A while

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Highlights South Africa 

Highlights: Nero, South Africa’s first Nero d’Avola

February 24, 2021February 24, 2021 jamiegoode 10056 Views

Bosman Family Vineyards have just launched South Africa’s first Nero d’Avola. The wine is a collaboration with actor/filmmaker Thapelo Mokoena,

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Features Wine Science 

Should wine critics be declaring ratings from samples taken with Coravin, or from small bottles?

February 21, 2021 jamiegoode 9263 Views

I think wine critics should indicate when the sample they have tasted has been Coravined. As a producer, if I

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Gonzalez Byass: 10 years of the Las Palmas Sherries

February 18, 2021February 18, 2021 jamiegoode 8352 Views sherry

Back in 2011, Gonzalez Byass had a great idea. Winemaker Antonio Flores had been reading an old book about sherry,

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Furmint study: investigating the dry wines from Hungary’s famous white grape

February 16, 2021February 17, 2021 jamiegoode 14364 Views Furmint, tokaji

Hungary used to be the third biggest wine producing country in the world, says Caroline Gilby who was leading this

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Spain Videos 

Video: with Ramiro Ibáñez of Bodega Cota 45 (UBE, Pangorda, Agostado)

February 14, 2021February 14, 2021 jamiegoode 7408 Views sherry

There is a revolution afoot in the Marco de Jerez (the Sherry Triangle that includes Jerez, El Puerto and Sanlúcar).

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Videos 

My sake journey

February 12, 2021March 4, 2021 jamiegoode 6305 Views

I’ve decided that it’s time for me to start studying sake formally. I’ve been to Japan several times, and even

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Sicus: distinctive low-intervention wines from Catalunya
Features Latest Spain 

Sicus: distinctive low-intervention wines from Catalunya

September 23, 2026 jamiegoode

Website: https://www.dynamicvines.com/producers/sicus I popped into Dynamic Vines in Bermondsey on a Saturday morning and they were showing the wines of

Germany’s top Rieslings at the VDP tasting: Mittelrhein, Franken, Sachsen, Nahe and Rheinhessen
Features Germany Latest 

Germany’s top Rieslings at the VDP tasting: Mittelrhein, Franken, Sachsen, Nahe and Rheinhessen

September 23, 2026September 23, 2026 jamiegoode
Notes from a remarkable long lunch at Gaveto in Matosinhos, Portugal, with Niepoort, Transmission and friends, plus some amazing Champagnes
Champagne Features Latest Portugal Regions 

Notes from a remarkable long lunch at Gaveto in Matosinhos, Portugal, with Niepoort, Transmission and friends, plus some amazing Champagnes

September 16, 2026 jamiegoode
Going to the football? Like good wine? A tasting trip through Islington’s wine bars pairs well with tickets for a north London matchday
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Going to the football? Like good wine? A tasting trip through Islington’s wine bars pairs well with tickets for a north London matchday

September 14, 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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