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Bendito Destino: a brilliant new project in Spain’s Ribero del Duero

June 8, 2025June 8, 2025 jamiegoode 1417 Views Ribera del Duero

Website: https://www.benditodestino.wine/ Terry Kandylis was head sommelier at 67 Pall Mall, and then spent a year working for Caprice Holdings,

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Quinta da Vacariça, a French sommelier making biodynamic wines in Portugal’s Bairrada region (updated with new notes, June 2025)

June 8, 2025June 9, 2025 jamiegoode 2875 Views Baga, Bairrada

François Chasans was a sommelier in France, and he first came to Portugal in 1998. He came for an agricultural

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Visiting the Kernel brewery in Bermondsey, the Grand Cru of the UK beer scene

June 7, 2025June 8, 2025 jamiegoode 538 Views beer

Website: https://www.thekernelbrewery.com/index.php For a while, I ran a beer blog, with Daniel Primack. It was quite fun, even if it

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The new wines from the Marco de Jerez: Sherry and Manzanilla reinvented, by going back to the past

June 6, 2025 jamiegoode 1403 Views manzanilla, palomino, sherry

In 2008 Niepoort collaborated with Equipo Navazos to make a special wine: an unfortified flor-aged table wine. This was to

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Restaurants: Nopalito, San Francisco

June 6, 2025June 6, 2025 jamiegoode 413 Views Restaurants

Website: https://www.nopalitosf.com/ One great advantage that San Francisco (and the rest of California) has over London is the availability of

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Photos from a day in the vineyards of Roussillon

June 4, 2025June 4, 2025 jamiegoode 795 Views Roussillon

Amazing landscapes, varied terroirs, more than half of its 19 000 hectares are old vines (50 years plus). More to

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Dinner with friends including three interesting Chinese wines

June 2, 2025 jamiegoode 581 Views

Eddie McDougall was in town so a gathering of the new Canary Wharf Wine Club was convened to welcome him

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Video: Just Another Wine Podcast at the Sublime natural wine festival, Berlin

June 2, 2025 jamiegoode 800 Views

Emily Harman, Doug Wregg and Jamie Goode, the team behind Just Another Wine Podcast, teamed up at the Sublime Wine

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Lounge raid, BA terminal 5, including Mullineux, Henriot and Greywacke

May 31, 2025May 31, 2025 jamiegoode 551 Views

A quick stop in the First Class lounge at Heathrow Terminal Five gave me a chance to do some tasting.

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Australia Features Latest TOP STORIES 

The wines of Wynns, Coonawarra – interviewing Sue Hodder, chief winemaker of Australia’s leading producers, updated with new release notes (May 2025)

May 31, 2025May 31, 2025 jamiegoode 3228 Views Coonawarra

Coonawarra is a celebrated wine region in South Australia, and Wynns are one of the most important players here. It

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Clos d’Entre des Murs: a remarkable walled vineyard in the Loire, full of walls inside!
Features Latest Loire 

Clos d’Entre des Murs: a remarkable walled vineyard in the Loire, full of walls inside!

July 9, 2025 jamiegoode

In Saumur there is a very distinctive vineyard, called Clos d’Entre des Murs. I’ve come across walled vineyards before, but

Modest success is the enemy of true success
Features Latest 

Modest success is the enemy of true success

July 8, 2025July 8, 2025 jamiegoode
A night out in Angers: Cercle Rouge and Barco Vino
Features Food and wine Latest Loire 

A night out in Angers: Cercle Rouge and Barco Vino

July 6, 2025 jamiegoode
Vite Maritata: growing vines on trees, and tasting the Lèmme Lèmme from Buondomo
Features Italy Latest Wine Science 

Vite Maritata: growing vines on trees, and tasting the Lèmme Lèmme from Buondomo

July 4, 2025July 5, 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.

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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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