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Highlights Spain 

Highlights: Tio Pepe Fino En Rama (2024 release)

May 20, 2024July 20, 2024 jamiegoode 4478 Views Jerez, sherry

The new release of the Tio Pepe Fino En Rama is out! And it’s a really good one. This Gonzalez

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Highlights Italy 

Highlights: Isole e Olena Cepparello 2021 IGT Toscana, Italy

May 18, 2024July 20, 2024 jamiegoode 3340 Views Chianti Classico, Sangiovese

Isole e Olena Cepparello 2021 IGT Toscana, Italy15% alcohol. This is 100% Sangiovese from Chianti Classico. First released in 1980,

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Food and wine 

Restaurants: Hunan, London

May 17, 2024July 20, 2024 jamiegoode 5628 Views Restaurants

Hunan is a remarkable restaurant. It’s been a Pimlico institution since 1982, and is widely regarded to be one of

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Features Italy TOP STORIES 

Emidio Pepe at 60: Chiara Pepe presents the past, present and future of this Abruzzo star

May 16, 2024July 20, 2024 jamiegoode 6622 Views Abruzzo

Website: https://www.emidiopepe.com/en/ Emidio Pepe is 60! This celebrated winery from the Abruzzo region in Italy has been on a celebratory

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Champagne Highlights 

Highlights: Champagne Louis Roederer Collection 244 MV

May 15, 2024July 20, 2024 jamiegoode 3913 Views

You have to love Roederer. Of all the Champagne houses, they are the ones making the coolest moves at the

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Beaujolais Features 

Jean Loron: a quality focused negociant and vineyard owner in Beaujolais and the Mâconnais

May 14, 2024July 20, 2024 jamiegoode 4431 Views

Website: https://www.loron.fr/en/domaine/chateau-bellevue-en-2/ Maison Jean Loron have 150 hectares (owned or managed) in Beaujolais and Bourgogne (Maconnais), with vineyards in seven

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Features Spain 

The remarkable wines of Álvaro Palacios: Rioja, Bierzo and Priorat

May 13, 2024July 20, 2024 jamiegoode 7500 Views Bierzo, Priorat, Rioja

Álvaro Palacios was in town with his daughter Lola, showing off his impressive portolio, which includes Palacios Remondo (Alfaro, Rioja),

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Features South Africa 

Smiley/Silwervis/Terracura are back! One of South Africa’s most interesting wine projects returns

May 8, 2024July 20, 2024 jamiegoode 8668 Views

One of South Africa’s quirkiest and most interesting wine projects was Silwervis and Terracura, a two-branded winery born in the

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Features 

Some wines are beyond criticism

May 7, 2024July 20, 2024 jamiegoode 15178 Views

I’m not primarily a wine critic. What I mean is, I don’t see my primary role as a wine communicator

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England Features 

Paragon and Inversion: two stunning prestige cuvées from English sparkling wine produced Black Chalk

May 4, 2024July 20, 2024 jamiegoode 4068 Views Sparkling wine

These two prestige cuvées from Black Chalk have both spent 26 months on lees, which is relatively short for such

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Brunello di Montalcino is unashamedly a wine that takes time to mature, and time feels noticeably short for us all. In a world that values fast trends, fashion and instant gratification, might patience be rewarded?
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Brunello di Montalcino is unashamedly a wine that takes time to mature, and time feels noticeably short for us all. In a world that values fast trends, fashion and instant gratification, might patience be rewarded?

March 28, 2026March 29, 2026 Lisse Garnett

Lisse Garnett investigates… The Libération Tardive Foundation is a UK-based non-profit that champions the late release of fine wine to

Winter Vine Burial in China, a seminar from Professor Huiqin Ma, China Agricultural University
China Features Latest Wine Science 

Winter Vine Burial in China, a seminar from Professor Huiqin Ma, China Agricultural University

March 28, 2026March 28, 2026 jamiegoode
The wines of Courelas da Torre, Alentejo, Portugal
Features Latest Portugal 

The wines of Courelas da Torre, Alentejo, Portugal

March 27, 2026March 27, 2026 jamiegoode
I visit Champagne Drappier who have just released a remarkable new prestige cuvée aged in wooden eggs called Éclose
Champagne Features Latest Regions TOP STORIES 

I visit Champagne Drappier who have just released a remarkable new prestige cuvée aged in wooden eggs called Éclose

March 27, 2026March 28, 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.

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