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California Features 

California Exploration: Âmevive Wines with Alice Anderson

December 10, 2024March 16, 2025 jamiegoode 1695 Views

Website: https://amevivewine.com/ Alice Anderson is making some beautiful, and beautifully labelled wines under her Âmevive label. I caught up with

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California Features 

California Exploration: Outward wines, Central Coast

December 9, 2024March 16, 2025 jamiegoode 1356 Views

Website: https://outwardwines.com/ Outward Wines is a partnership between Ryan Pace and Natalie Siddique, and I caught up with them to

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Champagne Highlights 

Highlights: Champagne Henriot Blanc de Blancs NV

December 9, 2024July 4, 2025 jamiegoode 1276 Views

Champagne Henriot Blanc de Blancs NV France12% alcohol£46 The Finest Bubble, Hedonism, Loki WineThis is based on 2017, and Henriot

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California Videos 

Video: visiting Raj Parr at Phelan Farms in Cambria, California

December 8, 2024December 8, 2024 jamiegoode 2368 Views

Such an interesting project! See this link for full details.

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California exploration: visiting Rajat Parr at Phelan Farm and Stolo Vineyards, Cambria

December 8, 2024March 16, 2025 jamiegoode 18671 Views Natural wine

Website: https://phelanfarm.com/ The pandemic had a big impact on a lot of people. It turned Rajat Parr into a farmer.

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Highlights Japan 

Highlights: Niki Hills Winery Hatsuyuki Kerner 2022 Hokkaido, Japan

December 6, 2024July 4, 2025 jamiegoode 1953 Views

Hokkaido is a very interesting wine region in Japan, with a particular emphasis on low-intervention wines, and as well as

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Highlights: Nyetimber Tillington Single Vineyard 2016 Sussex, England

December 6, 2024September 28, 2025 jamiegoode 1077 Views

This is one of the best English sparkling wines I’ve tasted – an elegant single-site Pinot Noir-led wine. Nyetimber Tillington

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Features Italy 

Chianti Classico deep dive (13) Fattoria Le Masse

December 4, 2024July 4, 2025 jamiegoode 1444 Views Chianti Classico

Website: https://www.fattorialemasse.com/en/ This was an interesting stop in Chianti Classico. Fattoria Le Masse is young by Chianti Classico standards and

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Features Italy 

Lorenzo Vignoli, artist and amphora maker

December 4, 2024July 4, 2025 jamiegoode 1332 Views

Website: https://www.vignolisculture.com/ While I was visiting Fattoria Le Masse in Chianti Classico I caught up with artist Lorenzo Vignoli, who

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Champagne Highlights 

Highlights: Champagne Alfred Gratien NV

December 3, 2024July 4, 2025 jamiegoode 1146 Views

Champagne Alfred Gratien NV France12.5% alcohol. Gratien is a small house of around 300 000 bottles a year, and is

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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
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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

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
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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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