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Highlights Portugal 

Highlights: Herdade do Rocim Clay Aged Tinto 2018 Alentejo, Portugal

August 31, 2020November 14, 2025 jamiegoode 4715 Views Alentejo, Amphora

Rocim, the Alentejo winery based between Cuba and Vidigueira in the south of the region, are famous for their hosting

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Champagne Highlights 

Highlights: Champagne Dom Pérignon Rosé 2006 France

August 30, 2020October 9, 2020 jamiegoode 7389 Views

Sometimes when a wine is really expensive, you almost don’t want it to be too good. This, the pink version

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Features Wine Science 

Introducing TDN, a compound responsible for petrol aromas in Riesling and other white wines

August 29, 2020August 29, 2020 jamiegoode 29887 Views Riesling

If you are a Riesling fan, then there’s one wine flavour compound you’ll be well acquainted with, even if you

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Portugal Profiles 

Quinta da Pedra Alta, Douro

August 28, 2020August 28, 2020 jamiegoode 9590 Views Douro

Website: https://www.qpa.pt/ Based in the Cima Corgo of the Douro region in Portugal, Pedra Alta is a new quinta for

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Highlights Savoie 

Highlights: Domaine Jean Perrier Altus ‘Le Vin Des Sommets’ Apremont 2019

August 27, 2020September 18, 2020 jamiegoode 8103 Views

What’s good about this wine? First, it’s a really delicious alpine wine from a producer with a sizeable 62 hectares

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Profiles Washington State 

Three from Kiona Vineyards, Red Mountain, Washington State

August 27, 2020August 27, 2020 jamiegoode 5996 Views

I enjoyed these three wines from Kiona Vineyards. They’re in the Red Mountain AVA of Washington State, which is well

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Germany Videos 

Video: at the VDP Grosses Gewächs tasting 2020

August 26, 2020August 26, 2020 jamiegoode 7659 Views

On Wednesday I was in Wiesbaden, Germany, for a very special tasting. It was the 2020 Grosses Gewächs tasting, featuring

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Greece Highlights 

Highlights: Artemis Karamolegos Santorini Ancestral Vines ‘34’ 2018 Greece

August 25, 2020September 3, 2020 jamiegoode 6362 Views Assyrtiko, Santorini

Artemis Karamolegos Santorini Ancestral Vines ‘34’ 2018 Greece14% alcohol. This is a 100% Assyrtiko from the island of Santorini. This

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Highlights New Zealand 

Highlights: Damned Mountain Sauvignon Blanc 2019 Marlborough

August 24, 2020August 24, 2020 jamiegoode 4926 Views Sauvignon Blanc

Damned Mountain Sauvignon Blanc 2019 Marlborough, New Zealand12.5% alcohol. This is a joint venture between Indigo Wine and an unnamed

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Videos 

Goode Guide to Wine: a Manifesto of Sorts

August 22, 2020 jamiegoode 5865 Views

Here’s my latest book, which will be launched next week. In this short film, I explain what it’s about. Buying

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Features Latest Portugal 

New releases from new-wave Vinho Verde star Constantino Ramos

June 19, 2026June 19, 2026 jamiegoode

I’ve written about Constantino Ramos and his wines in depth before on this site. I caught up with him at

kismet winery okanagan
Canada Features Latest Profiles 

Canada’s Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys (9) Kismet Estate Winery

June 19, 2026June 19, 2026 jamiegoode
Canada’s Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys (8) Burrowing Owl
Canada Features Latest Regions 

Canada’s Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys (8) Burrowing Owl

June 17, 2026June 17, 2026 jamiegoode
Katharina Gessl, an exciting producer in Austria’s Wienvertel
Austria Features Latest 

Katharina Gessl, an exciting producer in Austria’s Wienvertel

June 16, 2026June 16, 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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