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2023 Gimblett Gravels Annual Vintage Selection: top reds from Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand

December 1, 2025December 1, 2025 jamiegoode 18850 Views hawkes bay

The Gimblett Gravels is a special sub-region in the Hawke’s Bay region of New Zealand. As the name suggests, the

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Wine marketing: don’t mistake choice for preference

November 30, 2025November 30, 2025 jamiegoode 2241 Views Business of wine

A frequent error made by marketeers is mistaking choice for preference. What do I mean by this? As a consumer,

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At Staffelter Hof in the Mosel, Jan-Matthias Klein has taken a bet on resistant varieties, vitisforestry and natural wine, and it’s working out

November 28, 2025January 23, 2026 jamiegoode 2945 Views Agroforestry, Natural wine, Pet Nat

As part of the Porto Protocol Living Vineyards tour 2025, I visited Staffelter Hof, a winery looking to produce a

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Amphora wine day, celebrating wines made in clay, part 2

November 26, 2025November 26, 2025 jamiegoode 2040 Views Alentejo

Here I’m writing up all the Portuguese wines tried at the amphora wine day at Rocim, November 2025. Arvad, Algarve,

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The amphora wine day at Rocim in Portugal's Alentejo wine region
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Amphora wine day, celebrating wines made in clay, part 1

November 25, 2025November 26, 2025 jamiegoode 2135 Views Bordeaux, Sicily

Each year Herdade do Rocim host an amphora wine day, bringing together wineries from around the world who make wine

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Goode’s Crib Sheets No. 2 – Central Otago Pinot Noir

November 24, 2025January 5, 2026 jamiegoode 1329 Views Central Otago, pinot noir

I remember the first time I tried Pinot Noir from Central Otago. It was at a tasting in London back

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Yarra Valley (8) Luke Lambert

November 23, 2025December 15, 2025 jamiegoode 1287 Views Yarra Valley

Website: https://www.lukelambertwines.com.au/ Luke makes wine from the northern part of the Yarra where the soils are granite with granitic sand.

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Australia Features Latest 

Yarra Valley (7) Timo Meyer

November 23, 2025December 15, 2025 jamiegoode 1283 Views Yarra Valley

Website: https://timomayer.com.au/ Timo Meyer originally came from Germany, but for a long time now he’s been making some of the

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Australia Features Latest 

Yarra Valley (6) Mac Forbes Wines

November 22, 2025December 15, 2025 jamiegoode 1126 Views Yarra Valley

Website: https://macforbes.com/ Mac Forbes made his name as winemaker with the late John Middleton at Mount Mary in the Yarra

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10 Years of Rotters Towers, with food from Vantre (Paris) and lots of Beaujolais

November 21, 2025March 24, 2026 jamiegoode 1108 Views Restaurants

Each year Noble Rot Lambs Conduit Street celebrate Beaujolais Nouveau day in style, inviting a guest chef or restaurant to

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Moreish: elegant wines from Dão and Bairrada, Portugal (and one from Spain, too)
Features Latest Portugal 

Moreish: elegant wines from Dão and Bairrada, Portugal (and one from Spain, too)

May 2, 2026May 2, 2026 jamiegoode

This is the personal project of Luis Lopes, who makes the wines for Dão superstar Dominio de Açor. He began

Smart Swiss wines from Viticoltura Rohner-Erni
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Smart Swiss wines from Viticoltura Rohner-Erni

May 2, 2026 jamiegoode
Nizio Naturals: brilliant low-intervention wines from Poland
Features Latest Poland 

Nizio Naturals: brilliant low-intervention wines from Poland

May 1, 2026May 1, 2026 jamiegoode
Visiting Kracher, one of the world’s great sweet wine producers, in Austria’s Burgenland region
Austria Features Latest Profiles 

Visiting Kracher, one of the world’s great sweet wine producers, in Austria’s Burgenland region

April 30, 2026April 30, 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.

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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