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Highlights: Yalumba Samuel’s Collection Bush Vine Grenache 2022

August 25, 2025 jamiegoode 977 Views Barossa, Grenache

Impressed by this Barossa Grenache. It’s a variety that a lot of people are doing very good work with in

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Samuel Billaud, making some of the best wines in Chablis

August 23, 2025August 25, 2025 jamiegoode 2001 Views Chablis

Samuel Billaud was working for his family domaine, Billaud-Simon, a member of the sixth generation of the family to grow

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Highlights: Pinea Korde, a serious rosé from Ribera del Duero

August 23, 2025 jamiegoode 914 Views Rose

Pinea Korde Rosé 2023 Ribera del Duero, Spain14% alcohol. This is a brave new project from Vicente Pliego, who came

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Video: visiting the innovative regenerative block at Greystone Wines in North Canterbury, NZ

August 20, 2025August 22, 2025 jamiegoode 2457 Views

Jamie Goode visits Greystone Wines in New Zealand’s North Canterbury wine region, where he meets Liam Burgess and Dom Maxwell,

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Highlights: Alice et Olivier De Moor Bourgogne Chitry 2023

August 20, 2025 jamiegoode 1106 Views Chablis, chitry, Natural wine

De Moor, based in Chablis, are one of my favourite producers. Everything they make is just so good. Had this

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New Zealand is making some of the world’s best Pinot Noir, and this is my roll-call of the best

August 18, 2025August 18, 2025 jamiegoode 3749 Views pinot noir

Back in February I attended Pinot Noir 2025 in Christchurch, New Zealand. It was quite a special event. One of

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Two truths of wine marketing not widely acknowledged

August 17, 2025August 17, 2025 jamiegoode 1465 Views Business of wine

I recent read an excellent post telling winery owners what they could do more effectively in selling their wine. It

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Apehelion: Grenache specialists from Australia’s McLaren Vale

August 17, 2025 jamiegoode 1085 Views Grenache

Website: https://aphelionwine.com.au/ Based in McLaren Vale, Aphelion is a Grenache specialist micro-negociant. It was started by Rob and Lou Mack,

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Highlights: two wines from Frederick Stevenson in South Australia

August 16, 2025August 16, 2025 jamiegoode 1005 Views

Frederick Stevenson is a naturally oriented winegrower in South Australia, and I tried these two wines from him. Frederick Stevenson

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Food and wine TOP STORIES 

Restaurants: Eleven Madison Park, New York – three-star vegan goodness that’s close to perfection

August 14, 2025August 14, 2025 jamiegoode 3330 Views Restaurants

Website: https://www.elevenmadisonpark.com/ Back in 2014, Betina Piqueras-Fiszman and Charles Spence published an intriguing book, called ‘The Perfect Meal’ (I wrote

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Tablas Creek and Château Beaucastel: a Wine Society tasting telling the story of how a leading Rhône domaine fell in love with California
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Tablas Creek and Château Beaucastel: a Wine Society tasting telling the story of how a leading Rhône domaine fell in love with California

October 2, 2025October 2, 2025 jamiegoode

Jason Haas of Tablas Creek and Andrew Bayley (GM of Beaucastel’s UK operation) presented this really interesting tasting, telling the

Tasting some wines from Bolivia: Jardín Oculto and Yokich
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Tasting some wines from Bolivia: Jardín Oculto and Yokich

September 28, 2025 jamiegoode
Champagne Salon and Delamotte: the 2015 Salon release, and a look at the current Delamotte range
Champagne Features Latest Regions TOP STORIES 

Champagne Salon and Delamotte: the 2015 Salon release, and a look at the current Delamotte range

September 26, 2025September 27, 2025 jamiegoode
Icelandic pharma-titan, Robert Wessman of Maison Wessman in Bergerac and his Wine Director, Lise Sadirac, fight for a new Issigeac micro-appellation with musical backing from Nora Jones 
Features France France Latest 

Icelandic pharma-titan, Robert Wessman of Maison Wessman in Bergerac and his Wine Director, Lise Sadirac, fight for a new Issigeac micro-appellation with musical backing from Nora Jones 

September 25, 2025September 25, 2025 Lisse Garnett

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About Us

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.

This is an explanation of what an anorak is.

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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You can contact Jamie at drjamiegoode@gmail.com Also, through my accounts at Twitter, Instagram and Mastodon

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