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Features France 

Exploring the Roussillon (3) Bila-Haut

December 24, 2025September 14, 2026 jamiegoode 2856 Views Roussillon

Website: https://www.chapoutier.com/fr/boutique/nos-domaines-et-maison/domaine-de-bila-haut-38 Bila-Haut is Chapoutier’s Roussillon project, based in Latour De France. Back in 1998 Michel Chapoutier bought 50 hectares

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Features France 

Exploring the Roussillon (2) Cave Dom Brial

December 24, 2025September 14, 2026 jamiegoode 1635 Views Roussillon

Website: https://www.dom-brial.com/ Dom Brial is a quality-focused cooperative based in Baixas, a small village of just 2000 inhabitants. The 200

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Exploring the Roussillon (1) an introduction

December 24, 2025September 14, 2026 jamiegoode 3097 Views Roussillon

Roussillon My exploration of the Roussillon began in Perpignan, which is the largest town in the region, and is located

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Bulgaria Features Regions 

Visiting Villa Melnik, one of Bulgaria’s leading wineries, in the Struma Valley

December 22, 2025September 14, 2026 jamiegoode 3884 Views

Villa Melnik is a family-owned winery in Harsovo, in southwest Bulgaria, in the Struma River Valley of the Thracian Valley.

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Features New Zealand Regions 

Kumeu River, New Zealand’s most celebrated Chardonnay producer – comparing 2024 and 2014 vintages

December 21, 2025October 10, 2026 jamiegoode 3067 Views Chardonnay, Hawke's Bay

Website: https://kumeuriver.co.nz/ Michael Brajkovich was in town to show the latest releases of Kumeu River’s Chardonnays, from the 2024 vintage.

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California Features 

Anthill Farms Winery: Californian elegance

December 20, 2025October 10, 2026 jamiegoode 1880 Views Chardonnay, pinot noir

Website: https://www.anthillfarms.com/ Anthill Farms began with 8 barrels of wine in 2024, and was started by three winemakers who’d met

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Features 

The wine aisles at Lidl are depressing if you care about the wine industry

December 20, 2025October 10, 2026 jamiegoode 4254 Views Business of wine

I popped into Lidl today to have a look at their wine offering. Lidl is one of the two German

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Food and wine 

Restaurants: a near perfect lunch at Chez Bruce, Wandsworth Common, London

December 19, 2025October 10, 2026 jamiegoode 3152 Views Restaurants

Website: https://www.chezbruce.co.uk/ What do you want from a restaurant experience? It really depends. Sometimes you want gastronomic challenge. Sometimes you

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Aldeia de Cima, Alentejo
Features Portugal 

The wines of Aldeia de Cima, an exciting project in Portugal’s Alentejo

December 18, 2025December 18, 2025 jamiegoode 6013 Views Alentejo

Website: https://www.aldeiadecima.com/en/ Herdade Aldeia de Cima is a large 2400 hectare estate in Vidigueira in the south Alentejo. Here, Luisa

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Features Profiles South Africa 

New releases from Radford Dale, South Africa: the over-delivering Vinum wines, plus their new organic wines

December 17, 2025December 17, 2025 jamiegoode 14120 Views

Radford Dale are producing some very smart wines at the moment. They are getting the style right (aiming for freshness

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Vinho Verde: Quinta da Pegadinha
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Vinho Verde: Quinta da Pegadinha

November 1, 2026November 1, 2026 jamiegoode

This is a small family vineyard and farm 15 km from the ocean, in the southern part of Vinho Verde,

Criante, a natural wine producer from Sicily
Features Italy Latest 

Criante, a natural wine producer from Sicily

November 1, 2026November 1, 2026 jamiegoode
Celebrating 25 years of Filipa Pato’s wines with an amazing lunch and tasting
Features Latest Portugal Regions TOP STORIES 

Celebrating 25 years of Filipa Pato’s wines with an amazing lunch and tasting

October 30, 2026October 30, 2026 jamiegoode
Rabasco: beautiful natural wines from Abruzzo, Italy
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Rabasco: beautiful natural wines from Abruzzo, Italy

October 28, 2026October 28, 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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