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Burgundy Features 

Exploring the Mâconnais (7) Domaine Sylvaine & Alain Normand

March 30, 2025September 29, 2025 jamiegoode 2669 Views Maconnais

Website: https://domaine-normand.com/en/home/ Sylvaine and Alain Normand is an impressive Mâcon producer with a winery and cellar door that has a

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Bulgaria Features 

Exploring Bulgarian wine (3) The Jolly Vintners

March 28, 2025September 29, 2025 jamiegoode 2273 Views

Website: https://thejollyvintners.com/en/home-en/ The second visit of the Bulgarian trip was an interesting one, and we tasted beside the Iscar river,

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Bulgaria Features 

Exploring Bulgarian wine (4) Château Burgozone

March 28, 2025September 29, 2025 jamiegoode 2840 Views

Website: https://www.burgozone.bg/en/ Burgozone is a family-owned winery that began in 2000. They have a sizeable 100 hectares of vines looking

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Bulgaria Features 

Exploring Bulgarian Wine (5) Bononia Estate

March 28, 2025September 29, 2025 jamiegoode 2593 Views

Bononia is an impressive operation located at the biggest turn in the Danube. It’s owned by the Yotov family, and

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Bulgaria Features 

Exploring Bulgarian Wine (2) Tipchenitza Winery

March 28, 2025September 29, 2025 jamiegoode 2334 Views

Website: https://tipchenitza.bg/en/ Tipchenitza was the first stop on our exploration of Buglarian wine. This is based in the hilly northwest

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Bulgaria Features 

Exploring Bulgarian wine (1) Introduction

March 28, 2025September 29, 2025 jamiegoode 4871 Views

If you look at the map, Bulgaria is one of those countries that seems to be an ideal place for

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Features Food and wine 

Restaurants: Trishna, London, one of London’s top Indian restaurants with a great wine list

March 27, 2025September 29, 2025 jamiegoode 5894 Views

Website: https://www.trishnalondon.com/ Had a brilliant lunch at Trishna today. It’s one of the restaurants that form the JKS group, including

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Features 

Why AI is a big problem for professional content producers, and why you will not see articles with any AI-generated content on this site

March 26, 2025September 29, 2025 jamiegoode 2004 Views

AI is now everywhere. Start writing an article using Microsoft Word, and it will encourage you to use its AI

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Champagne Highlights 

Highlights: Champagne Jerome Blin Les Ports Zero Dosage

March 24, 2025September 29, 2025 jamiegoode 2965 Views

Champagne Jérôme Blin Les Ports Complantation Zero Dosage 2020 FranceFrom an organically farmed parcel called Vincelles, planted in 1986, and

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Features TOP STORIES 

Filming the science of wine

March 23, 2025September 29, 2025 jamiegoode 2849 Views

One of the most fun things I did last year was spend three weeks filming a TV series titled ‘The

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Minimalist Wines, the exciting South African Syrah-focused winery of Sam Lambson
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Minimalist Wines, the exciting South African Syrah-focused winery of Sam Lambson

August 8, 2026 jamiegoode

Website: https://www.minimalistwines.com/ I popped into Flint Wines to meet a South African winemaker that everyone is talking about. Sam Lambson

Bordeaux Claret: the new AOC Bordeaux Claret Controllée is an interesting move, broadening the appeal of Bordeaux reds
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Bordeaux Claret: the new AOC Bordeaux Claret Controllée is an interesting move, broadening the appeal of Bordeaux reds

August 6, 2026August 6, 2026 jamiegoode
Beaumes-de-Venise exploration: Domaine Saint Amant
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Beaumes-de-Venise exploration: Domaine Saint Amant

August 4, 2026 jamiegoode
Beaumes-de-Venise exploration: a big tasting of the reds and the Muscats
Features Latest Rhone 

Beaumes-de-Venise exploration: a big tasting of the reds and the Muscats

August 4, 2026August 4, 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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