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Austria Features Latest 

Heinrich: beautiful naturally inclined wines from Austria’s Burgenland region

December 8, 2025December 8, 2025 jamiegoode 745 Views Natural wine

Heinrich is one of Austria’s most interesting producers. Based in Burgenland, they successfully negociated a style change in 2014 and

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The impressive wines of Herdade do Rocim and its associated projects, among Portugal’s best

December 7, 2025December 7, 2025 jamiegoode 1263 Views Alentejo, Dao

Website: https://rocim.pt/en/ This was a tasting of some of the wines of Herdarde do Rocim and their associated wineries, presented

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Features Latest Slovenia 

Slovenia: Edi Simčič, one of the stars of Brda

December 6, 2025December 6, 2025 jamiegoode 1239 Views

The region is Goriška Brda, and I’m here to visit one of the top producers, Edi Simčič. This was my

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Features Latest Slovenia 

Slovenia: Bjana is an exciting sparkling wine project in Brda

December 5, 2025December 5, 2025 jamiegoode 686 Views Sparkling wine

Website: https://bjana.si/ Based in Brda, Slovenia, on the border with Italy, Bjana is a very exciting sparkling wine project. It’s

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As the Michelin Guide turns to wine with its three-grape rating system, here are the big questions

December 3, 2025December 3, 2025 jamiegoode 2454 Views

From 2026 the Michelin Guide will continue its brand expansion by turning to rating wine producers. This will be done

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Features Latest Portugal 

Saravá, innovative low-intervention wines from Vinho Verde and Douro, Portugal

December 2, 2025December 2, 2025 jamiegoode 657 Views Douro, Natural wine, Vinho Verde

Website: https://www.galactic.wine/ Miguel Viseu is the winemaker at low-intervention wine producer Aphros in Vinho Verde, but he also has his

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2023 Gimblett Gravels Annual Vintage Selection: top reds from Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand

December 1, 2025December 1, 2025 jamiegoode 17259 Views hawkes bay

The Gimblett Gravels is a special sub-region in the Hawke’s Bay region of New Zealand. As the name suggests, the

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Wine marketing: don’t mistake choice for preference

November 30, 2025November 30, 2025 jamiegoode 1888 Views Business of wine

A frequent error made by marketeers is mistaking choice for preference. What do I mean by this? As a consumer,

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At Staffelter Hof in the Mosel, Jan-Matthias Klein has taken a bet on resistant varieties, vitisforestry and natural wine, and it’s working out

November 28, 2025November 29, 2025 jamiegoode 1921 Views Natural wine, Pet Nat

As part of the Porto Protocol Living Vineyards tour 2025, I visited Staffelter Hof, a winery looking to produce a

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Features Latest Portugal Regions 

Amphora wine day, celebrating wines made in clay, part 2

November 26, 2025November 26, 2025 jamiegoode 1401 Views Alentejo

Here I’m writing up all the Portuguese wines tried at the amphora wine day at Rocim, November 2025. Arvad, Algarve,

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2016, looking back a decade from 2026
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2016, looking back a decade from 2026

January 18, 2026 jamiegoode

2016 was quite a year for me. A transition year with a lot of travel.

Gallo, the world’s largest wine company, has three insanely large wineries in California
California Features Latest 

Gallo, the world’s largest wine company, has three insanely large wineries in California

January 17, 2026January 17, 2026 jamiegoode
Bianka and Daniel Schmitt, making impressive natural wines in Rheinhessen, Germany
Features Germany Latest Profiles 

Bianka and Daniel Schmitt, making impressive natural wines in Rheinhessen, Germany

January 15, 2026January 15, 2026 jamiegoode
Another impressive Swiss producer: Domaine de Montbenay from the Vaud
Features Latest Switzerland 

Another impressive Swiss producer: Domaine de Montbenay from the Vaud

January 13, 2026January 13, 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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