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Burgundy Highlights Videos 

Highlights: Chavy-Chouet Bourgogne Les Femelottes 2018

April 25, 2020April 26, 2020 jamiegoode 8720 Views Chardonnay

This is an impressive wine from the newly-exciting Meursault-based Domaine Chavy Chouet. Femelottes is a 3 hectare parcel on clay/sand

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Features TOP STORIES Wine Science 

The latest on mouse, the wine taint of our times

April 24, 2020April 24, 2020 jamiegoode 40873 Views

Mouse taint (mousiness) is a wine fault that I’d not experienced until a few years ago. Now it seems to

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China Features 

Lenz Moser and his Chinese dream: Changyu Moser XV

April 23, 2020April 23, 2020 jamiegoode 11838 Views

Isolation means no travel, but thanks to Zoom, Instagram and various other video-capable apps, that doesn’t stop wine journalists like

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Highlights South of France Videos 

Highlights: Domaine Jones Fitou Vieilles Vignes 2017

April 23, 2020April 29, 2020 jamiegoode 7742 Views Fitou

Fitou is an appellation in France’s Languedoc region, where red blends dominate, and Carignan is a major player in these

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Canada Videos 

Video: In Québec, visiting top producer Les Pervenches

April 22, 2020April 27, 2020 jamiegoode 6244 Views

Jamie Goode heads to Québec, in Canada. Here, winegrowers face significant challenges if they are to grow Vitis vinifera varieties,

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Beaujolais Videos 

Highlights: Domaine Chapel Beaujolais Villages 2018

April 21, 2020May 15, 2020 jamiegoode 7532 Views Gamay

I visited David Chapel and Michel-Smith Chapel in their new winery in 2018. They’d only recently started out: 2016 was

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Features South Africa TOP STORIES 

In the Swartland with Eben Sadie (2) in the cellar, and tasting the wines

April 20, 2020April 23, 2020 jamiegoode 16557 Views swartland

Jamie Goode and Treve Ring taste with Eben Sadie, and visit the winery where some of South Africa’s most sought-after

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England Videos 

Highlights: Simpsons Gravel Castle Chardonnay 2019 England

April 20, 2020April 20, 2020 jamiegoode 5558 Views Chardonnay

The future for English sparkling wine is bright. Still wines? I’ve been a bit sceptical of these, although of late

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Burgundy Highlights Videos 

Highlights: Domaine Rougeot ‘Les Plumes’ Bourgogne Aligoté 2018

April 19, 2020 jamiegoode 7874 Views

This is from a 1.5 hectare vineyard next to Meursault, planted in 1974. Pierre-Henri Rougeot bottles the whole lot without

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Wine Science 

Ropiness in wine, a new fault for me

April 19, 2020April 20, 2020 jamiegoode 30841 Views wine fault

There are faults you read about but you’ve never experienced. Here I experience ropiness for the first time, in a

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Features

Sicus: distinctive low-intervention wines from Catalunya
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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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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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