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Nigel Greening on navigating the tricky waters wine finds itself in, and the problems with ‘fine wine’: where does Felton Road sit?

June 12, 2025January 15, 2026 jamiegoode 6447 Views

Back in February 2025 I attended the Pinot Noir 2025 conference in Christchurch, New Zealand. As well as some great

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Features Portugal 

The wines of Muxagat, from Portugal’s Douro region

June 12, 2025January 15, 2026 jamiegoode 2521 Views Douro

It was back in 2002 that João Nicolau de Almeida and Eduardo Lopes began Muxagat, a terroir project based the

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Features Regions South Africa 

New releases from Savage, one of South Africa’s very top producers

June 11, 2025January 15, 2026 jamiegoode 4236 Views

Website: https://www.savagewines.com/ Duncan Savage has established himself as one of South Africa’s top producers, and each year he seems to

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Highlights: Champagne Alfred Gratien Cuvée Paradis 2015

June 9, 2025January 15, 2026 jamiegoode 3338 Views

Website: https://www.alfredgratien.com/en/home/ This is the prestige cuvée from Alfred Gratien, who do a lot of barrel work with their base

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Features Portugal 

Gonçalves Faria: serious, classic Bairrada wines, now under the Niepoort stable

June 9, 2025January 15, 2026 jamiegoode 2287 Views Bairrada

António Maia Ferreira Faria was a celebrated producer of classic, long-lived Bairrada under the Gonçalves Faria label, working with some

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

June 8, 2025January 15, 2026 jamiegoode 4875 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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Features Portugal 

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 5287 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, 2025January 15, 2026 jamiegoode 4116 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, 2025January 15, 2026 jamiegoode 4443 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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Food and wine 

Restaurants: Nopalito, San Francisco

June 6, 2025January 15, 2026 jamiegoode 2086 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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Galiza: a seminar focusing on the wines of Galicia, Spain
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Galiza: a seminar focusing on the wines of Galicia, Spain

October 12, 2026October 12, 2026 jamiegoode

For the 2026 edition of Simplesmente Vinho the guest region was Galiza (Galicia) in Spain, and there were nine visiting

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
Loosen Barry: where the Clare Valley meets the Mosel, a Riesling collaboration
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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
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All Good Things: tasting three examples from this new supermarket-targeted brand

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.

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