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Highlights Italy Latest 

Highlights: Luigi Giordano Langhe Freisa 2022

September 8, 2025 jamiegoode 1180 Views freisa, Piemonte

Luigi Giordano Langhe Freisa 2022 Valle dei Salici, Piemonte, Italy13% alcohol. This is from Barbaresco, from the Cars MGA, and

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Burgundy Features Latest 

Wines from Emmanuel Giboulot, Bourgogne, tasted at Dynamic Vines

September 7, 2025 jamiegoode 1631 Views

Website: https://www.dynamicvines.com/ Dynamic Vines is a respected importer of biodynamic, organic and low-intervention wines based in Bermondsey, London. On Saturday

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Features Greece Latest 

Greek wines from female winemakers at Maltby and Greek

September 7, 2025September 7, 2025 jamiegoode 1424 Views

Website: https://www.maltbyandgreek.com/ A chance encounter led to a great tasting. I was in Bermondsey exploring Spa Terminus, where many wholesale

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Champagne Highlights Latest 

Highlights: Champagne Billecart-Salmon Le Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru

September 6, 2025 jamiegoode 520 Views

I like that Billecart-Salmon now have ‘my origin’ on their website, where if you are so inclined you can find

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Features France Italy Latest Spain 

Nice wines at the 67 Sessions: Le Moine, Brocard, Scala Dei, San Leonardo

September 5, 2025 jamiegoode 1572 Views Chablis, champagne, Priorat

The evening before the 67 Pall Mall Global Wine Communicator Awards, there was a new event. The 67 Sessions, an

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Highlights Latest South Africa 

Highlights: Veiled Vineyards Old Vine Semillon 2016 Franschhoek, South Africa

September 4, 2025 jamiegoode 1181 Views Franschhoek, Semillon

Veiled Vineyards Old Vine Semillon 2016 Franschhoek, South Africa13.5% alcohol. This may be almost 9 years old, but it’s a

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England Highlights Latest 

Highlights: Roebuck Estates Rare Expressions Ninety-Six 2014 Sussex, England

September 3, 2025September 3, 2025 jamiegoode 1222 Views

Website: https://www.roebuckestates.co.uk/wine/rare-expressions-no-96/ Roebuck Estates Rare Expressions Ninety-Six 2014 Sussex, EnglandThis is the second release of the Roebuck’s luxury Rare Expressions

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Highlights Latest Portugal 

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

September 2, 2025 jamiegoode 1185 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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Features Latest 

Origin roasters, Cape Town – an amazing coffee experience

September 2, 2025 jamiegoode 1273 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 1835 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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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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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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