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Features Latest New Zealand Regions 

New Zealand’s North Canterbury region is making some of the country’s most interesting wines (1) introduction

November 14, 2025February 16, 2026 jamiegoode 2681 Views North Canterbury

https://www.northcanterburywines.co.nz North Canterbury is the region that includes the Waipara Valley, a few isolated vineyards on the Banks Peninsula, and

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Highlights: Angiolino Maule Masieri 2023 Veneto, Italy

November 12, 2025 jamiegoode 1301 Views Natural wine, veneto

From one of Italy’s most important natural wineries. Angiolino Maule and his wife Rosamaria founded this winery in 1988, after

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Chile Features Latest 

Viñedos Herrera Alvarado: a remarkable natural wine project in Chile

November 11, 2025November 11, 2025 jamiegoode 1861 Views Natural wine

Website: There’s natural wine and there’s natural wine. I had a very special visit to Viñedos Herrera Alvarado with Carolina

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Highlights: Champagne Henriot Brut Souverain NV

November 9, 2025November 9, 2025 jamiegoode 1999 Views

Website: https://www.champagne-henriot.com/ Tried this in the lounge en route to Portugal today. Really like it. Henriot was part of Artémis,

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Chile Features Latest Regions 

Visiting Antiyal, with Alvaro Espinoza, the biodynamic pioneer of Chile

November 8, 2025 jamiegoode 2826 Views

Website: https://antiyal.com/ Alvaro Espinoza and his wife Marina had just got back from Costa Rica when I met them at

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Chile Features Latest 

In Chile, day 1, tasting interesting wines with good folk on a Sunday afternoon

November 5, 2025November 5, 2025 jamiegoode 1720 Views Grenache, Mencia

I’m in Chile, and arriving Sunday afternoon I headed off to a very informal Sunday afternoon chill with some local

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Video: Visiting Antiyal, a biodynamic wine estate in Chile’s Alto Maipo, with Alvaro Espinoza

November 5, 2025November 5, 2025 jamiegoode 3116 Views biodynamic

Alvaro Espinoza was the first winegrower to practice biodynamic farming in South America. He consults widely, but with his wife

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Highlights: Clos des Fous Pour Ma Gueule Riesling 2018 Itata, Chile

November 3, 2025November 3, 2025 jamiegoode 1750 Views Itata

So I’ve just arrived in Santiago, Chile, and time for lunch at Hotel Magnolia while they prepare my room. Starting

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Book review: The Science of Fermentation

November 2, 2025 jamiegoode 2359 Views Books

Website: https://www.dk.com/us/book/9798217126477-the-science-of-fermentation/ Robin Sherriff The Science of Fermentation: explore the fascinating alchemy of fermented food and drinkDorling Kindersley This is

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Wine and travel as competitive sports

November 1, 2025November 1, 2025 jamiegoode 1679 Views

Facebook has this thing where it shares with you the content of groups you have never joined. One that I

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Notes from a remarkable long lunch at Gaveto in Matosinhos, Portugal, with Niepoort, Transmission and friends, plus some amazing Champagnes
Champagne Features Latest Portugal Regions 

Notes from a remarkable long lunch at Gaveto in Matosinhos, Portugal, with Niepoort, Transmission and friends, plus some amazing Champagnes

September 16, 2026 jamiegoode

As far as lunches go, this was one of the best I’ve had in recent years, held at the remarkable

Going to the football? Like good wine? A tasting trip through Islington’s wine bars pairs well with tickets for a north London matchday
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Going to the football? Like good wine? A tasting trip through Islington’s wine bars pairs well with tickets for a north London matchday

September 14, 2026 jamiegoode
Pfalz Riesling: tasting through some of the top examples at the VDP tasting 2026
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Pfalz Riesling: tasting through some of the top examples at the VDP tasting 2026

September 14, 2026September 14, 2026 jamiegoode
the central dozen - 12 central otago pinot noirs
Features Latest New Zealand Regions 

The Central Dozen, an important exercise in telling the contemporary story of Central Otago Pinot Noir through a curated selection of 12 bottles

September 12, 2026September 12, 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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