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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 4928 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 3844 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 1757 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 4725 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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Features Japan Regions 

A big tasting of Japanese wines

August 4, 2025July 2, 2026 jamiegoode 13426 Views

I’ve been following Japanese wine for a while, and a while back I attended a large tasting of Japanese wines

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Features 

The disappearing middle

August 3, 2025July 2, 2026 jamiegoode 2863 Views Business of wine

We see lots of cheap wine, lots of expensive wine, but what’s happened to all those mid-priced wines? One of

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Australia Food and wine 

Restaurants: LOC, Adelaide, a small but perfectly formed natural wine bar and restaurant

August 2, 2025July 2, 2026 jamiegoode 2735 Views Natural wine, Restaurants

Website: https://locdotcom.au/ There’s something very special and intimate about dining at LOC, a natural wine bar and restaurant in Adelaide.

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Features 

Rosé roundup: tasting and rating a wide selection of pink wines

August 2, 2025July 2, 2026 jamiegoode 9165 Views

Rosé is an important wine category, but still it struggles to be taken seriously by wine geeks. But it’s commercially

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Features Portugal 

Mouchão: lovely wines from this traditional Alentejo winery

August 1, 2025July 2, 2026 jamiegoode 2964 Views Alentejo

Website: https://mouchao.pt/en/ One of the most highly regarded Alentejo wineries, Mouchão has always been a bit different to its peers.

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California Features 

Books: The New California by Elaine Chukan Brown

July 31, 2025July 21, 2026 jamiegoode 2420 Views Books

Ever since I heard that Elaine Chukan Brown was writing a book on Californian Wine, I was waiting to see

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The Bothey, an interesting wine project from South Africa
Features Latest South Africa 

The Bothey, an interesting wine project from South Africa

October 12, 2026October 12, 2026 jamiegoode

Website: https://www.bothey.co.za/wine/ Katja Leinberger and Marcel Hartman own a luxury accommodation call The Bothey, and they also have a range

Loosen Barry: where the Clare Valley meets the Mosel, a Riesling collaboration
Australia Features Latest 

Loosen Barry: where the Clare Valley meets the Mosel, a Riesling collaboration

October 11, 2026October 11, 2026 jamiegoode
All Good Things: tasting three examples from this new supermarket-targeted brand
Features Latest 

All Good Things: tasting three examples from this new supermarket-targeted brand

October 9, 2026October 9, 2026 jamiegoode
Canadian Sparkling Wine: a rare tasting crossing the country, with 24 different wines
Canada Features Latest Regions 

Canadian Sparkling Wine: a rare tasting crossing the country, with 24 different wines

October 9, 2026October 9, 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.

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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