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Fifty years of Lytton Springs, the famous Zinfandel-based wine from star California producer Ridge

March 12, 2025 jamiegoode 3554 Views

Website: https://www.ridgewine.com/ The current release of Lytton Springs, the 2022, celebrates 50 years since this single-vineyard wine was first launched

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Features Spain 

The wines of Numanthia, from Spain’s Toro wine region: how they’ve tried to shift from the Parker-style to something more expressive of place

March 11, 2025September 29, 2025 jamiegoode 3933 Views Toro

Website: https://www.numanthia.com/en-ww Numanthia hit gold with the release of their 2004 Termanthia, which was among a group of five wines

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England Features 

Whitewolfe Estates: an exciting new Chardonnay-based project in Kent, England

March 11, 2025September 29, 2025 jamiegoode 2602 Views Chardonnay

Website: https://whitewolfe-estates.co.uk/ Whitewolfe Estates is a still Chardonnay project founded in 2019 by Clare Whitehead and Luke Wolfe, and the

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Canada Features 

The wines of 40 Knots, Vancouver Island, Canada

March 10, 2025September 29, 2025 jamiegoode 3100 Views Vancouver Island

Website: https://www.40knotswinery.com Vancouver Island is one of Canada’s lesser known wine regions, but it is gaining traction. It hit the

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Bordeaux Features 

Château Pavie deep dive, with Jane Anson and João Pires

March 9, 2025September 29, 2025 jamiegoode 3691 Views

As part of the Wynn Signature Chinese wine awards 2025 there was a series of seminars, and this was was

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China Features 

Waking the Sleeping Grape: the birth of the next wine superpower?

March 6, 2025September 29, 2025 jamiegoode 4470 Views

Straight from Macau, where I just spent five days judging at the Wynn Signature Chinese Wine Awards 2025, I caught

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China Features 

Marselan is turning out to become China’s key grape variety: a seminar with Marselan expert and Chinese resident Julien Boulard

March 5, 2025September 29, 2025 jamiegoode 3545 Views Marselan

Julien Boulard (pictured above) presented this session on Marselan. He’s a master of wine based in China, and he did

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China Features 

Ningxia and Xinjiang, China’s two main wine regions, a seminar with Xing Wei

March 3, 2025September 29, 2025 jamiegoode 5521 Views

As part of the 2025 Edition of the Wynn Signature Chinese Wine Awards the judges have some education in the

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Books Features Food and wine 

Wine and Asian food: a masterclass with Richard Hemming of 67 Pall Mall

March 2, 2025September 29, 2025 jamiegoode 3940 Views

Jamie Goode attends a seminar in Macao where Richard Hemming presents his book looking at matching wine with Asian food,

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Burgundy Features 

Meet Raphaëlle Guyot, who is recovering lost terroirs in interesting parts of Bourgogne

March 1, 2025September 29, 2025 jamiegoode 3623 Views Natural wine

UK agent: Newcomer Wines Raphaëlle Guyot studied winegrowing and winemaking at Beaune, graduating in 2015. This was followed up with

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Notes from a remarkable long lunch at Gaveto in Matosinhos, Portugal, with Niepoort, Transmission and friends, plus some amazing Champagnes
Champagne Features Latest Portugal Regions 

Notes from a remarkable long lunch at Gaveto in Matosinhos, Portugal, with Niepoort, Transmission and friends, plus some amazing Champagnes

September 16, 2026 jamiegoode

As far as lunches go, this was one of the best I’ve had in recent years, held at the remarkable

Going to the football? Like good wine? A tasting trip through Islington’s wine bars pairs well with tickets for a north London matchday
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Going to the football? Like good wine? A tasting trip through Islington’s wine bars pairs well with tickets for a north London matchday

September 14, 2026 jamiegoode
Pfalz Riesling: tasting through some of the top examples at the VDP tasting 2026
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Pfalz Riesling: tasting through some of the top examples at the VDP tasting 2026

September 14, 2026September 14, 2026 jamiegoode
the central dozen - 12 central otago pinot noirs
Features Latest New Zealand Regions 

The Central Dozen, an important exercise in telling the contemporary story of Central Otago Pinot Noir through a curated selection of 12 bottles

September 12, 2026September 12, 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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