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Highlights Latest New Zealand 

Highlights: Prophet’s Rock Home Vineyard Pinot Noir 2021 Central Otago, New Zealand

March 26, 2024 jamiegoode 5202 Views pinot noir

Website: https://www.prophetsrock.co.nz/ Prophet’s Rock Home Vineyard Pinot Noir 2021 Central Otago, New Zealand13.5% alcohol. Since 2005, Paul Pujol has been

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England Features 

The debut releases from Walgate & Co, some of England’s most interesting still wines

March 24, 2024May 21, 2024 jamiegoode 8545 Views

Website: https://walgate.eco/ This was a chance to taste the debut release from Ben Walgate’s new venture, post leaving Tillingham. ‘In

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Features Italy Latest 

Etna, Sicily: Torre Mora

March 23, 2024March 23, 2024 jamiegoode 3953 Views etna, Sicily

One of the estates owned by Piccini, Torre Mora has 13 hectares of vines at altitudes between 600 and 700

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Features Rhone 

Rhône discovery (1) Les Chancel, Ventoux

March 23, 2024June 18, 2024 jamiegoode 4322 Views Ventoux

Website: https://www.leschancel.com/ Pierre Chancel was working for Sanofi, a drug company, in his previous life. At one point he was

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Features Regions South Africa 

Restless River, one of South Africa’s most singular and interesting wine projects

March 21, 2024May 21, 2024 jamiegoode 11213 Views

Treve Ring and I visited Restless River for the second time in October 2022, on a sunny but cool and

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Features Italy 

Etna, Sicily: Palmento Constanza

March 19, 2024May 21, 2024 jamiegoode 3694 Views etna, Sicily

Website: https://www.palmentocostanzo.com/en/ I’m very excited by this producer, currently making some of the best wines on the island. Organic with

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Features Italy 

Etna, Sicily: Tenuta Boccarossa

March 19, 2024May 21, 2024 jamiegoode 5287 Views etna, Sicily

Website: http://www.tenutaboccarossa.it/ Michele Calabretta was working in the car industry, and it led him to Germany where he met his

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Features Portugal 

Arribas Wine Co: exciting low-intervention wines from Trás-os-Montes, Portugal

March 18, 2024May 21, 2024 jamiegoode 5998 Views

Website: https://arribaswine.com/ Ricardo Alves and Frederico Machado (pictured above) began the Arribas Wine Company in 2017. They are based in

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France Highlights Romania 

Highlights: two affordable orange wines from Bertrand and Cramele Recas

March 18, 2024May 21, 2024 jamiegoode 4201 Views Languedoc, orange wine

Tried these two orange wines side by side. It’s interesting to see this category of skin-fermented whites (often called orange

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Features Videos Wine Science 

Video and gallery: Festival del Potatare, the Simonit & Sirch pruning festival 2024

March 16, 2024May 21, 2024 jamiegoode 6099 Views

I’m just back from the Festival del Potatare, the second edition of the pruning festival organized by industry leading pruning

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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?
Features Italy Latest 

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.

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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