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Burgundy Features Latest 

A vertical of Domaine Chevrot’s Aligoté Tilleul with Pablo Chevrot

May 28, 2025May 28, 2025 jamiegoode 438 Views Aligote

Website: https://www.chevrot.fr/ Pablo Chevrot (above) is the vice president of a group called Les Aligoteurs, focusing on the grape variety

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Quinta do Noval deep dive: latest releases and more from this important Douro estate

May 27, 2025May 27, 2025 jamiegoode 1312 Views Douro, Port

Head to the Douro and then make your way to Vale Mendiz in the Pinhão Valley, you’ll find one of

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A blind tasting of 10 assorted whites

May 25, 2025 jamiegoode 635 Views

This was a blind tasting of 10 assorted white wines. Notes and scores as written, supplemented with some information after

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Denmark Features Latest 

The wines of Hideaway Vingård, Denmark

May 25, 2025May 25, 2025 jamiegoode 638 Views

Website: www.hideawayvingaard.dk  Hideaway is a 2.2 hectare property with 1.3 hectares of vines. They also grow figs, apricots and peaches

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Features Latest Profiles Spain 

MacRobert & Canals, new wave Rioja with a terroir focus

May 23, 2025May 24, 2025 jamiegoode 6958 Views Rioja

What happens when a winemaker from the Swartland marries a winemaker from Rioja? Well, he moves there and starts making

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Highlights Latest Portugal 

Highlights: Filipa Pato and William Wouters Post Quer..s Baga 2023 Bairrada, Portugal

May 22, 2025May 22, 2025 jamiegoode 477 Views Baga

Love this wine, which I bought from a wine shop in Lisbon. The mastery of Baga, maturing it in amphorae

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Burgundy Features Latest TOP STORIES 

Aligoté: how a lesser-known variety from Bourgogne is suddenly hitting the big time, with a bright future ahead of it

May 22, 2025May 22, 2025 jamiegoode 2437 Views Aligote

Website: https://aligoteurs.wordpress.com/ Tucked away in a wood, in Flagey-Échezeaux – at the heart of the Route des Grands Crus in

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Features Profiles Regions Spain 

Terroir al Límit and Terroir Sense Fronteres: stunning, brave wines from Priorat and Montsant by Dominik and Tatjana (updated 2025)

May 21, 2025May 22, 2025 jamiegoode 7535 Views montsant, Priorat

Websites: https://terroir-sense-fronteres.com/ and https://terroir-al-limit.com/ Terroir al Límit is one of Priorat’s most highly acclaimed wineries, established by Dominik Huber and

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Five from important Tuscan producer Frescobaldi

May 21, 2025 jamiegoode 441 Views Chianti Classico, Tuscany

Website: https://www.frescobaldi.com/en/ Frescobaldi is a noted Tuscan producer with nine wineries in the province, making a wide range of wines.

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Tasting top South African Chardonnay
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South African Chardonnay: how does it stack up internationally? A tasting with the South African Chardonnay Association in London

May 20, 2025May 20, 2025 jamiegoode 4397 Views Chardonnay

Website: https://chardonnayassociationsouthafrica.com/ The Chardonnay Association of South Africa is a re-born organisation with the aim to market Chardonnay internationally, and

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Zinfandel: California’s own grape, tasting 59 top examples
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Zinfandel: California’s own grape, tasting 59 top examples

June 18, 2025June 18, 2025 jamiegoode

My first real encounter with Zinfandel was reading an excellent book by US author David Darlington, titled Angels’ Visits, and

The wines of Quinta de Tourais, Douro, Portugal
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The wines of Quinta de Tourais, Douro, Portugal

June 15, 2025 jamiegoode
Visiting Folias de Baco, a Douro winery making compelling natural wines under the Uivo brand (updated June 2025)
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Visiting Folias de Baco, a Douro winery making compelling natural wines under the Uivo brand (updated June 2025)

June 14, 2025June 15, 2025 jamiegoode
Nigel Greening on navigating the tricky waters wine finds itself in, and the problems with ‘fine wine’: where does Felton Road sit?
Features Latest TOP STORIES 

Nigel Greening on navigating the tricky waters wine finds itself in, and the problems with ‘fine wine’: where does Felton Road sit?

June 12, 2025June 12, 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.

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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