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Features Latest New Zealand Regions 

Kumeu River, New Zealand’s most celebrated Chardonnay producer – comparing 2024 and 2014 vintages

December 21, 2025December 21, 2025 jamiegoode 758 Views Chardonnay, Hawke's Bay

Website: https://kumeuriver.co.nz/ Michael Brajkovic was in town to show the latest releases of Kumeu River’s Chardonnays, from the 2024 vintage.

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California Features Latest 

Anthill Farms Winery: Californian elegance

December 20, 2025 jamiegoode 453 Views Chardonnay, pinot noir

Website: https://www.anthillfarms.com/ Anthill Farms began with 8 barrels of wine in 2024, and was started by three winemakers who’d met

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The wine aisles at Lidl are depressing if you care about the wine industry

December 20, 2025 jamiegoode 843 Views Business of wine

I popped into Lidl today to have a look at their wine offering. Lidl is one of the two German

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Food and wine Latest 

Restaurants: a near perfect lunch at Chez Bruce, Wandsworth Common, London

December 19, 2025 jamiegoode 482 Views Restaurants

Website: https://www.chezbruce.co.uk/ What do you want from a restaurant experience? It really depends. Sometimes you want gastronomic challenge. Sometimes you

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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 4484 Views Alentejo

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

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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 11292 Views

Radford Dale are producing some very smart wines at the moment. They are getting the style right (aiming for freshness

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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 607 Views

Website: https://www.casamarin.cl/ Casa Marin is one of Chile’s success stories. It’s a boutique winery based in Lo Abarca, which is

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Australia Features Latest 

Yarra Valley (11) Giant Steps

December 15, 2025December 15, 2025 jamiegoode 563 Views Yarra Valley

Giant Steps winery was started in the Yarra Valley by Phil Sexton in the late 1990s. He is a serial

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Australia Features Latest 

Yarra Valley (10) Bobar

December 15, 2025December 15, 2025 jamiegoode 469 Views Yarra Valley

Sally and Tom Belford met at wine school, and in 2010 began making wine together in the Yarra Valley. I

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Features Latest TOP STORIES Wine Science 

Launched today: Regenerative Viticulture, Second Edition

December 15, 2025December 15, 2025 jamiegoode 1203 Views Books

Anyone who has written a book knows the amount of planning, researching, thought and effort that goes into bringing it

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Failla Wines: beautiful site-specific wines from some of northern California’s best vineyards
California Features Latest 

Failla Wines: beautiful site-specific wines from some of northern California’s best vineyards

December 29, 2025 jamiegoode

Website: https://www.faillawines.com/ Ehren Jordan is the winemaker and owner at Failla, and he’s quite a dude. He got his first

Exploring the Roussillon (4) Domaine Pertuisane
Features France Latest 

Exploring the Roussillon (4) Domaine Pertuisane

December 28, 2025December 28, 2025 jamiegoode
Camillo Donati, natural sparkling wines from Emilia Romagna
Features Italy Latest 

Camillo Donati, natural sparkling wines from Emilia Romagna

December 26, 2025December 26, 2025 jamiegoode
Exploring the Roussillon (3) Bila-Haut
Features France Latest 

Exploring the Roussillon (3) Bila-Haut

December 24, 2025December 24, 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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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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