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Champagne Profiles Regions 

Champagne Ulysse Collin: visiting and tasting with one of the region’s new stars

March 24, 2015October 4, 2019 jamiegoode 7429 Views

Visiting the Champagne region: a conversation and tasting with Olivier Collin This was a brilliant visit with the dramatic, expressive

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Jura Profiles Regions 

Visiting Ganevat in the Jura: a sort of pilgrimage

March 24, 2015October 4, 2019 jamiegoode 8927 Views

The wines of Jean-François Ganevat   Visiting one of the Jura’s star producers  We arrived in the small hamlet of La

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Profiles Regions South Africa 

Craven Wines: making the most of exceptional Stellenboch vineyards

March 24, 2015November 30, 2019 jamiegoode 5588 Views

Craven Wines: of South Africa’s most interesting producers, making balanced single-site wines from Stellenbosch, report by Jamie Goode and Treve

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New to wine 

Different levels of appreciating wine

March 24, 2015September 29, 2019 jamiegoode 5083 Views

One of the keys to being able to make sense of wine is understanding that there are two different ways

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Australia Regions 

The wines of Giaconda, Beechworth, Victoria

March 24, 2015October 4, 2019 jamiegoode 5272 Views

Rick Kinzbrunner’s amazing wines are some of Australia’s most sought-after bottles Website: www.giaconda.com.au Giaconda is one of Australia’s star boutique wineries.

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Profiles 

Domaine Marcel Lapierre: natural pioneer in the Beaujolais

March 24, 2015August 31, 2019 jamiegoode 5700 Views Beaujolais, Gamay

I visited with Camille Lapierre, of domaine Marcel Lapierre, which she runs with her brother Mathieu. Of all the domaines

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Features 

Developing appellations in emerging wine regions

March 24, 2015September 29, 2019 jamiegoode 6125 Views

Jamie Goode discusses the thorny issue of the creation of appellations, GIs and AVAs in new world wine countries I

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Food and wine 

All about coffee

March 24, 2015September 29, 2019 jamiegoode 4562 Views

Although I’m a wine geek, I’m obsessed by all kinds of flavour, and while I don’t have a great deal

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Profiles Provence Regions 

Château Gassier, Provence star

March 24, 2015October 4, 2019 jamiegoode 5518 Views

Gassier is a historical Provence family business that dates back to the 15th century. We visited the location that Gassier

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Germany Profiles Regions 

Jean Stodden, Ahr, Germany

March 20, 2015October 4, 2019 jamiegoode 6016 Views

Visiting the most northerly of Germany’s wine regions, where Pinot Noir is king Jean Stodden, run by Alexander Stodden, is

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Chile Features Latest Regions 

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
Features Latest Spain 

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
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

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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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