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Highlights Latest Portugal 

Highlights: Herdade do Rocim Vinha da Micaela 2021 Alentejo Vidigueira, Portugal

September 2, 2025November 14, 2025 jamiegoode 1828 Views Alentejo

This is an interesting wine from Rocim. It’s from a single high-altitide vineyard that Rocim purchased from a lady called

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Origin roasters, Cape Town – an amazing coffee experience

September 2, 2025 jamiegoode 1971 Views coffee

Website: https://originroasting.co.za/ On my last visit to Cape Town we stopped off at Origin, which is a coffee roaster and

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Latest Portugal Regions 

Gallery: the Douro in black and white

September 1, 2025 jamiegoode 2287 Views Douro

Some images from the Douro, captured in black and white. Sometimes restricting creative options helps you to look more carefully.

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Alsace Features Latest 

Alsace Pinot Noir, a mini study

September 1, 2025September 1, 2025 jamiegoode 2135 Views pinot noir

I tasted quite a bit of Pinot Noir when I last visited Alsace in autumn 2023, and came away impressed.

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Let’s look at the coffee market, and see what this can tell us about wine

August 31, 2025August 31, 2025 jamiegoode 1675 Views Business of wine, coffee

People in wine talking about ‘the wine industry’ often get themselves in a stew. As I’ve said before often, and

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Features Latest Spain 

Highlights: Bodegas Cota 45 Ube Miraflores 2022 Spain

August 30, 2025 jamiegoode 1752 Views manzanilla, palomino, sherry

Another beauty from Ramiro Ibáñez. Bodegas Cota 45 Ube Miraflores 2022 Spain11.5% alcohol. This is Palomino from a collection of

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Champagne Features Latest 

Watching the Aldeburgh moonrise with Champagne: Lanson Le Black and Heidsieck & Co Monopole

August 29, 2025 jamiegoode 1555 Views

On a recent trip to the Norfolk and Suffolk coasts we sat on the beach at Aldeburgh as the sun

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Burgundy Features Gallery Latest 

Maison Arnaud Boué, making some excellent negociant wines in Bourgogne

August 28, 2025August 28, 2025 jamiegoode 1988 Views Aligote, Gamay

Arnaud Boué comes from Bourgogne, but didn’t come from a wine family. He did, however, get a degree in enology,

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England Highlights Latest 

Highlights: Bluestone Premier Rosé 2021 England

August 28, 2025 jamiegoode 1512 Views

Website: https://bluestonevineyards.co.uk/ Bluestone are a relative newcomer to the English wine scene, though such is the pace of change here

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France Highlights Latest 

Highlights: Famille Fabre Gasparets Le Camin 2022 Vin de France

August 27, 2025 jamiegoode 1555 Views Corbieres, Languedoc, orange wine

Website: https://www.famillefabre.com/details-vin/chateau-fabre-gasparets-camin-82A35E/ A remarkable orange wine from Corbières Boutenac in the Languedoc. Famille Fabre Gasparets Le Camin 2022 Vin de

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Ca’Marcanda: 30 years of Gaja’s Tuscan outpost
Features Italy Latest Profiles 

Ca’Marcanda: 30 years of Gaja’s Tuscan outpost

March 24, 2026March 24, 2026 jamiegoode

Bolgheri’s natural beauty drew the 57 year old Angelo Gaja to spread his winemaking wings out from Piemonte in 1996,

New releases from Stellenbosch star Meerlust
Features Latest South Africa 

New releases from Stellenbosch star Meerlust

March 23, 2026 jamiegoode
The remarkable wines of Anne-Claire Schott, Three Lakes, Switzerland
Features Latest Profiles Switzerland 

The remarkable wines of Anne-Claire Schott, Three Lakes, Switzerland

March 22, 2026 jamiegoode
Visiting Black Chalk, tasting current releases and the exciting 2025 base wine blends, at this superb English sparkling wine producer
England Features Latest Profiles 

Visiting Black Chalk, tasting current releases and the exciting 2025 base wine blends, at this superb English sparkling wine producer

March 20, 2026March 21, 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.

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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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