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Video: Wynn Signature Chinese Wine Awards 2025

March 16, 2025 jamiegoode 2573 Views

Jamie Goode travels to Macau in China to take part as a judge in the Wynn Signature Chinese Wine Awards

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Beaujolais Features 

Jean-Paul et Charly Thévenet, natural wine stars in Beaujolais

March 15, 2025September 29, 2025 jamiegoode 1936 Views Gamay

Jean-Paul Thévenet was one of the pioneering band of naturally inclined Beaujolais producers (the gang of four, or sometimes five

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California Features Highlights Regions 

Fifty years of Lytton Springs, the famous Zinfandel-based wine from star California producer Ridge

March 12, 2025 jamiegoode 2523 Views

Website: https://www.ridgewine.com/ The current release of Lytton Springs, the 2022, celebrates 50 years since this single-vineyard wine was first launched

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Features Spain 

The wines of Numanthia, from Spain’s Toro wine region: how they’ve tried to shift from the Parker-style to something more expressive of place

March 11, 2025September 29, 2025 jamiegoode 2685 Views Toro

Website: https://www.numanthia.com/en-ww Numanthia hit gold with the release of their 2004 Termanthia, which was among a group of five wines

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England Features 

Whitewolfe Estates: an exciting new Chardonnay-based project in Kent, England

March 11, 2025September 29, 2025 jamiegoode 1881 Views Chardonnay

Website: https://whitewolfe-estates.co.uk/ Whitewolfe Estates is a still Chardonnay project founded in 2019 by Clare Whitehead and Luke Wolfe, and the

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Canada Features 

The wines of 40 Knots, Vancouver Island, Canada

March 10, 2025September 29, 2025 jamiegoode 2248 Views Vancouver Island

Website: https://www.40knotswinery.com Vancouver Island is one of Canada’s lesser known wine regions, but it is gaining traction. It hit the

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Bordeaux Features 

Château Pavie deep dive, with Jane Anson and João Pires

March 9, 2025September 29, 2025 jamiegoode 2653 Views

As part of the Wynn Signature Chinese wine awards 2025 there was a series of seminars, and this was was

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China Features 

Waking the Sleeping Grape: the birth of the next wine superpower?

March 6, 2025September 29, 2025 jamiegoode 3164 Views

Straight from Macau, where I just spent five days judging at the Wynn Signature Chinese Wine Awards 2025, I caught

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China Features 

Marselan is turning out to become China’s key grape variety: a seminar with Marselan expert and Chinese resident Julien Boulard

March 5, 2025September 29, 2025 jamiegoode 2216 Views Marselan

Julien Boulard (pictured above) presented this session on Marselan. He’s a master of wine based in China, and he did

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China Features 

Ningxia and Xinjiang, China’s two main wine regions, a seminar with Xing Wei

March 3, 2025September 29, 2025 jamiegoode 3351 Views

As part of the 2025 Edition of the Wynn Signature Chinese Wine Awards the judges have some education in the

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Impressive, well priced wines from Grochau Cellars/GC Wines from Oregon’s Willamette Valley
Features Latest Oregon 

Impressive, well priced wines from Grochau Cellars/GC Wines from Oregon’s Willamette Valley

February 8, 2026February 8, 2026 jamiegoode

Website: https://www.grochaucellars.com/ John Grochau started his winery in 2002, initially using his own name, but later switching it to GC

Boekenhoutskloof: a vertical of Semillon, and the 2023 new releases from this top South African winery
Features Latest South Africa 

Boekenhoutskloof: a vertical of Semillon, and the 2023 new releases from this top South African winery

February 6, 2026February 6, 2026 jamiegoode
Adelsheim, one of the pioneering Oregon wineries
Features Latest Oregon 

Adelsheim, one of the pioneering Oregon wineries

February 5, 2026February 5, 2026 jamiegoode
Visiting Emiliana, an important organic Chilean winery
Chile Features Latest Profiles 

Visiting Emiliana, an important organic Chilean winery

February 4, 2026February 4, 2026 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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