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Highlights Rhone 

Highlights: Domaine Richaud Les Galets 2023 Côtes du Rhône, France

August 9, 2025July 2, 2026 jamiegoode 1944 Views

This is a really impressive southern Rhône red from Richaud, a top producer in Cairanne. Domaine Richaud Les Galets 2023

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Burgundy Features 

Discovering the Mâconnais (12) Les Vignerons de Mancey

August 8, 2025July 2, 2026 jamiegoode 2970 Views Maconnais

Website: https://www.lesvigneronsdemancey.fr/en/ Les Vignerons de Mancey is, as the name suggests, a cooperative cellar. But it’s a small cooperative, around

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Burgundy Features 

Discovering the Mâconnais (11) Domaine Eric et Catherine Giroud

August 7, 2025July 2, 2026 jamiegoode 2702 Views Chardonnay, Maconnais

Website: https://www.domainegiroud.fr/ I met with Eric and Catherine on a lovely July day in one of their vineyards, along with

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Highlights Japan 

Highlights: Niki Hills Winery Zweigeltrebe 2022 Hokkaido, Japan

August 7, 2025July 2, 2026 jamiegoode 1759 Views

Niki Hills is an interesting winery based in Hokkaido, the northernmost island of Japan, which is turning out to be

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Australia Features TOP STORIES 

Visiting the Macedon Ranges, a cool-climate Australian wine region making some exciting wines (1) introduction

August 6, 2025July 2, 2026 jamiegoode 3864 Views macedon ranges

Website: https://www.macedonrangeswine.com.au/ Macedon Ranges is a small, cool-climate region in Victoria, about an hour’s drive north of Melbourne. At altitudes

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Australia Features 

Exploring the Macedon Ranges (3) Cobaw Ridge and Joshua Cooper Wines

August 6, 2025July 2, 2026 jamiegoode 4156 Views macedon ranges

Cobaw Ridge is a really interesting producer, based on the north side of the Macedon Ranges in Victoria, Australia. When

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Australia Features Regions 

Exploring the Macedon Ranges (2): Place of Changing Winds, a remarkable project focusing on Pinot Noir and Chardonnay

August 5, 2025July 2, 2026 jamiegoode 4797 Views macedon ranges

Website: https://www.placeofchangingwinds.com.au/ This is a remarkable project from Robert Walters, who for over 15 years has been wine buyer for

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Australia Features 

Exploring the Macedon Ranges (4): Bindi, one of Australia’s leading wineries

August 5, 2025July 2, 2026 jamiegoode 3699 Views macedon ranges

Website: https://bindiwines.com.au/ In the Macedon ranges, a short drive from Melbourne, Michael Dhillon (pictured above) is currently making some of

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Highlights Latest Uruguay 

Highlights: Pablo Fallabrino Sagitta Nebbiolo Grand Reserve 2020 Uruguay

August 5, 2025August 5, 2025 jamiegoode 1694 Views Nebbiolo

Popped into the Good Wine Shop in Kew today and was recommended this wine: a Nebbiolo from Uruguay! Drank it

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Food and wine 

Restaurants: Urchin, Holland Park, London

August 5, 2025July 2, 2026 jamiegoode 4585 Views Restaurants

Website: https://urchinjapanese.com/ Urchin is unusual but brilliant. It’s a Japanese restaurant that’s a sister to Dorian, and technically it’s a

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