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Features New Zealand 

New Zealand adventure, day 1: Waipara, North Canterbury

February 4, 2025September 29, 2025 jamiegoode 2015 Views North Canterbury

I’m back in New Zealand for the first time since 2019, and it feels great, despite the jetlag. I travelled

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Features Italy 

Chianti Classico deep dive (15) Istine with Angela Fronti

February 4, 2025September 29, 2025 jamiegoode 2100 Views Chianti Classico

Website: www.istine.it Angela Fronti is the dynamic personality behind Istine, a Chianti Classico winery based in Radda. She has some

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Features Spain 

Aseginolaza y Leunda, making stunning low-fi wines in Spain’s Navarra

February 2, 2025September 29, 2025 jamiegoode 1652 Views navarra

Website: https://aseginolazayleunda.com/ Pedro Leunda (pictured above) and Jon Aseginolaza are childhood friends from San Sebastien, now making wine from the

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Austria Features 

Claus Preisinger, natural wine hero from Gols in Austria’s Burgenland

January 31, 2025September 28, 2025 jamiegoode 1765 Views Blaufrankisch, Burgen

Claus Preisinger’s began making his own wine in 2002 while working as an assistant winemaker with Hans Nittnaus. His state-of-the-art

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Features South Africa 

Swerwer, an exciting producer from South Africa’s Swartland region

January 30, 2025September 28, 2025 jamiegoode 2683 Views swartland

Jasper Wickens first discovered wine when he was at university in Stellenbosch. To pay the bills while he was studying

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Features New Zealand 

40 years of Cloudy Bay Sauvignon Blanc

January 29, 2025September 28, 2025 jamiegoode 3172 Views Marlborough, Sauvignon Blanc

New Zealand’s most famous wine, the Marlborough icon, hits middle age It was back in 1985 that the first vintage

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England Features 

Taittinger’s foray into England, Domaine Evremond, releases its first wine

January 28, 2025September 28, 2025 jamiegoode 2983 Views Sparkling wine

Back in 2015 I attended a press conference at Westminster Abbey announcing a launch of a new English sparkling wine

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Features Rhone 

Crozes-Hermitage (2) M Chapoutier

January 27, 2025September 28, 2025 jamiegoode 1622 Views crozes-hermitage, Northern Rhone

Chapoutier are one of the major producers in the northern Rhône, and they have 60 hectares in the Crozes-Hermitage appellation,

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Features Rhone 

Crozes-Hermitage (3) Paul Jaboulet-Aîné

January 27, 2025September 28, 2025 jamiegoode 1345 Views crozes-hermitage, Northern Rhone

Paul Jaboulet Aîné is one of the famous names in the northern Rhône. Owners of the famous chapel on the

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Features Rhone 

Crozes-Hermitage (4) Maison and Domaine Les Alexandrins

January 27, 2025September 28, 2025 jamiegoode 2324 Views crozes-hermitage, Northern Rhone

This is a domaine whose name has changed a bit. Domaine Alexandrins was first founded by Alexandre Caso and Guillaume

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Tablas Creek and Château Beaucastel: a Wine Society tasting telling the story of how a leading Rhône domaine fell in love with California
California Features Latest Rhone 

Tablas Creek and Château Beaucastel: a Wine Society tasting telling the story of how a leading Rhône domaine fell in love with California

October 2, 2025October 2, 2025 jamiegoode

Jason Haas of Tablas Creek and Andrew Bayley (GM of Beaucastel’s UK operation) presented this really interesting tasting, telling the

Tasting some wines from Bolivia: Jardín Oculto and Yokich
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Tasting some wines from Bolivia: Jardín Oculto and Yokich

September 28, 2025 jamiegoode
Champagne Salon and Delamotte: the 2015 Salon release, and a look at the current Delamotte range
Champagne Features Latest Regions TOP STORIES 

Champagne Salon and Delamotte: the 2015 Salon release, and a look at the current Delamotte range

September 26, 2025September 27, 2025 jamiegoode
Icelandic pharma-titan, Robert Wessman of Maison Wessman in Bergerac and his Wine Director, Lise Sadirac, fight for a new Issigeac micro-appellation with musical backing from Nora Jones 
Features France France Latest 

Icelandic pharma-titan, Robert Wessman of Maison Wessman in Bergerac and his Wine Director, Lise Sadirac, fight for a new Issigeac micro-appellation with musical backing from Nora Jones 

September 25, 2025September 25, 2025 Lisse Garnett

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About Us

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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