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Features Food and wine Latest Loire 

A night out in Angers: Cercle Rouge and Barco Vino

July 6, 2025 jamiegoode 1580 Views

Websites: https://www.barcovino.com/ | https://www.facebook.com/lecerclerougeangers?locale2=fr_FR# Had a really nice evening with a good crew in Angers. Two excellent drinking spots: Cercle

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Features Italy Latest Wine Science 

Vite Maritata: growing vines on trees, and tasting the Lèmme Lèmme from Buondomo

July 4, 2025July 5, 2025 jamiegoode 2180 Views

It was a real treat to taste this wine while I was in Tuscany, having seen one of the vineyards

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Features Latest Slovenia 

Slovenia: Domaine Slapšak with François Botton, who traded Champagne dreams for Dolejnska

July 4, 2025 jamiegoode 1301 Views Sparkling wine

Website: https://www.domaine-slapsak.com/en/ François Botton is French, and hails from the Champagne region. But he didn’t grow up in a Champagne

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Features Latest Slovenia 

Cviček, a unique lighter red wine style from Slovenia, blending red and white grapes with low alcohol

July 4, 2025July 4, 2025 jamiegoode 1688 Views

This is a really interesting traditional style of wine that is extremely cheap locally, but which I think could have

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England Highlights Latest 

Highlights: Hambledon Classic Cuvée Rosé NV England

July 3, 2025 jamiegoode 929 Views

New release of this impressive rosé from Hambledon, one of the UK’s leading sparkling wine houses. [Aside: keep this out

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Highlights Latest Spain 

Highlights: Bien de Altura Tidao 4 2022 Gran Canaria, Spain

July 3, 2025 jamiegoode 1269 Views

A really impressive single vineyard wine from the talented Carmelo Peña, who also makes wine from Lanzarote. This is from

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Features Latest Slovenia 

Slovenia: Roka, Kog

July 1, 2025July 3, 2025 jamiegoode 1228 Views

Liam and Sinead Cabot are from Ireland, where they currently run a successful wine importing business, Cabot & Co (https://www.cabotandco.com/).

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Features Latest Slovenia 

Slovenia: Marof, Prekmurje

June 30, 2025June 30, 2025 jamiegoode 1264 Views

I visited Marof in May 2023 on my first tour of Slovenia, and was impressed. On this trip, I caught

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Slovenia: visiting Tement and Domaine Ciringa, where Austria and Slovenia meet.

June 30, 2025June 30, 2025 jamiegoode 1974 Views

Website: https://www.tement.at/en/ Tement is an important producer in Austrian Styria, but their cellar in Zierreg is right on the border

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Features Latest Regions Slovenia 

Slovenia: Vino Gross, in Slovenian Styria

June 29, 2025June 29, 2025 jamiegoode 1848 Views

Website: https://www.vinogross.com/ Last time I visited Vino Gross I spent time in the vineyards of Haloze, and then tasted in

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Aldeia de Cima, Alentejo
Features Portugal 

The wines of Aldeia de Cima, an exciting project in Portugal’s Alentejo

December 18, 2025December 18, 2025 jamiegoode

Website: https://www.aldeiadecima.com/en/ Herdade Aldeia de Cima is a large 2400 hectare estate in Vidigueira in the south Alentejo. Here, Luisa

New releases from Radford Dale, South Africa: the over-delivering Vinum wines, plus their new organic wines
Features Profiles South Africa 

New releases from Radford Dale, South Africa: the over-delivering Vinum wines, plus their new organic wines

December 17, 2025December 17, 2025 jamiegoode
Casa Marin, one of Chile’s top boutique wineries making cool climate gems in their own DO, Lo Abarca
Chile Features Latest 

Casa Marin, one of Chile’s top boutique wineries making cool climate gems in their own DO, Lo Abarca

December 16, 2025 jamiegoode
Yarra Valley (11) Giant Steps
Australia Features Latest 

Yarra Valley (11) Giant Steps

December 15, 2025December 15, 2025 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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