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The wine critics

October 20, 2019January 25, 2021 jamiegoode 12478 Views

A comic novel by Jamie Goode This is my first foray into fiction! Written entirely on aeroplanes, it is a

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Features Wine Science 

Ripeness in wine, part 1

October 20, 2019October 30, 2019 jamiegoode 14517 Views

In the first of a three-part series Jamie Goode explores one of the most pressing questions in the world of

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Burgundy Profiles 

Thibault Liger-Belair, a new classic Burgundy domaine

October 19, 2019December 29, 2019 jamiegoode 14614 Views pinot noir

Visiting Thibault Liger-Belair’s green winery to taste his sought-after wines Thibault took over the 8 hectare Liger-Belair vineyard in 2001,

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Features Oregon Profiles 

Nicolas Jay, a new Oregon star

October 18, 2019December 29, 2019 jamiegoode 10640 Views oregon, pinot noir

Jay Boberg and Jean-Nicolas Méo’s collaboration has already established itself among the Willamette Valley’s finest Nicolas Jay is a collaborative

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The grapes and the geography

October 17, 2019October 17, 2019 jamiegoode 9627 Views

There are two rather different ways to approach wine. Both are needed. Continuing in my somewhat meandering journey into wine,

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Thorne & Daughters, some of South Africa’s finest whites

October 17, 2019October 18, 2019 jamiegoode 10018 Views

John Seccombe’s Thorne & Daughters wines draw on some top Cape vineyards and show amazing finesse John Seccombe is the

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Big can be good: visiting Trapiche, Argentina’s largest producer

October 16, 2019October 26, 2019 jamiegoode 11815 Views mendoza

Trapiche, part of the Peñaflor group, was founded in 1883 and is now Argentina’s largest producer. Often with wine, small

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A wine matching dinner with Mercian wines at the Saito Hotel

October 16, 2019December 29, 2019 jamiegoode 7582 Views Japan

Dinner in Nagano, Japan, matched with wines from Château Mercian One of the many good experiences from my recent Japan

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Cayuse: discovering the stones

October 15, 2019October 15, 2019 jamiegoode 9521 Views washington state

Meeting Christophe Baron to taste his sought-after Rhone-style wines made from a distinctive terroir on the Washington State/Oregon boundary ‘Don’t

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Videos 

Video: the Douro Valley – from Port to world-class table wines

October 15, 2019October 15, 2019 jamiegoode 6125 Views Douro

This is a film I made with David Fuller a few years back. It’s about the Douro Valley in Portugal

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Viña González Bastías, Maule Valley, Chile: exciting naturally made wines from an amazing old vineyard

September 25, 2026 jamiegoode

Website: https://www.vinosgonzalezbastias.com/ Jose Luís Bastías and Daniela Lorenzo are custodians of a remarkable six-hectare vineyard in Chile’s Maule Valley planted

Sicus: distinctive low-intervention wines from Catalunya
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Sicus: distinctive low-intervention wines from Catalunya

September 23, 2026 jamiegoode
Germany’s top Rieslings at the VDP tasting: Mittelrhein, Franken, Sachsen, Nahe and Rheinhessen
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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

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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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