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Features Regions Rhone 

Beaumes de Venise, the Rhône cru with two faces

April 23, 2025December 20, 2025 jamiegoode 2343 Views

Website: https://www.beaumesdevenise-aoc.fr/ Beaumes de Venise is a small cru in the southern Rhône that describes itself as a terroir with

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Features Poland 

Polish wine exploration: Winnica Silesian

April 23, 2025December 20, 2025 jamiegoode 1948 Views

Winnica Silesian is a winery in lower Silesian, Poland, and it’s run by Ebsen Madsen (pictured above), a climate scientist

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Highlights: a 21 year old Mondeuse from Louis Magnin in the Savoie

April 22, 2025December 20, 2025 jamiegoode 1145 Views mondeuse

Domaine Louis Magnin Savoie Arbin Mondeuse Vielles Vignes 2003 Savoie, France12.5% alcohol. This Mondeuse was raised in stainless steel. It

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Australia Features 

Some affordable Australian wines from Yalumba and Oxford Landing

April 22, 2025December 20, 2025 jamiegoode 1321 Views

Website: https://www.oxfordlanding.com/en/story/ https://www.yalumba.com/ Yalumba are an important winery for Australia. Based in the Barossa they make some impressive high end

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Highlights: Little Pomona Ripple Egremont Russet Unoaked Still Cider 2022 England

April 20, 2025December 20, 2025 jamiegoode 987 Views cider

I know this is a cider, but it’s just so good, and so vinous, that I had to include it.

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England Highlights 

Highlights: Danbury Ridge Chardonnay 2022 at Le Vignoble, Plymouth

April 20, 2025December 20, 2025 jamiegoode 1290 Views

After a nice walk along the Cornish coast from Plymouth (there’s a ferry going to Mount Edgecumbe in Cornwall), we

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Features Germany 

Krone Assmannshausen, Rheingau: some of Germany’s best Spätburgunders

April 19, 2025December 2, 2025 jamiegoode 1446 Views pinot noir, Rheingau

Website: www.weingut-krone.de    Weingut Krone Assmannshausen is a small Pinot-only winery made from a 3.7 hectare vineyard that used to

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Features Poland 

Polish wine exploration: Winnica Moderna

April 17, 2025December 2, 2025 jamiegoode 2039 Views

Website: https://www.winnicamoderna.pl/ Winnica Moderna is based in Poland’s Lower Silesian region, which is one of the warmest parts of the

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Austria Features 

Umathum: serious wines from Austria’s Burgenland region

April 15, 2025December 2, 2025 jamiegoode 2253 Views Burgenland

Website: https://www.umathum.at/en/ Umathum is based in the Burgenland region of Austria. They are located on the east side of Lake

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Burgundy Features 

Discovering the Mâconnais (10) Domaine du Bicheron

April 15, 2025December 2, 2025 jamiegoode 1350 Views Maconnais

Website: https://www.domainedubicheron.com/en/ Bicheron is quite a big producer based in the in the Mâconnais, making 170 000 bottles under their

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Anthill Farms Winery: Californian elegance
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Anthill Farms Winery: Californian elegance

December 20, 2025 jamiegoode

Website: https://www.anthillfarms.com/ Anthill Farms began with 8 barrels of wine in 2024, and was started by three winemakers who’d met

The wine aisles at Lidl are depressing if you care about the wine industry
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The wine aisles at Lidl are depressing if you care about the wine industry

December 20, 2025 jamiegoode
Aldeia de Cima, Alentejo
Features Portugal 

The wines of Aldeia de Cima, an exciting project in Portugal’s Alentejo

December 18, 2025December 18, 2025 jamiegoode
New releases from Radford Dale, South Africa: the over-delivering Vinum wines, plus their new organic wines
Features Profiles South Africa 

New releases from Radford Dale, South Africa: the over-delivering Vinum wines, plus their new organic wines

December 17, 2025December 17, 2025 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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