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Austria Features Latest TOP STORIES 

The remarkable wines of Werlitsch, Styria, Austria

January 22, 2024 jamiegoode 6415 Views Natural wine

Website: http://www.werlitsch.com/ Ewald and Brigitte Tscheppe (above) are the couple behind one of Austria’s most interesting wine projects: the Werlitsch

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Beaujolais adventures (7) Clos du Mez, Fleurie

January 20, 2024 jamiegoode 3947 Views Gamay

Website: https://www.closdemez.com/ Marie-Élodie Zighera-Confuron (hence MEZ, with Confuron her added-on married name) is on a mission to make great, ageworthy

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Chianti Classico deep dive (5) dinner at Salefino Vino & Cucina in Siena

January 19, 2024January 19, 2024 jamiegoode 3762 Views Chianti Classico, Restaurants

Website: https://salefino-siena.com/vino-e-cucina/ This was my first time in Siena, which is simply stunning. It’s almost entirely unspoiled, and is very

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Features Latest South Africa 

The wines of Bosman, Wellington and Hemel-en-Aarde, South Africa

January 19, 2024January 19, 2024 jamiegoode 4142 Views

Website: https://bosmanwines.com/ Wellington-based producer Bosman have quietly become one of the most interesting of all South African producers. They don’t

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Chianti Classico deep dive (4) San Felice

January 18, 2024January 18, 2024 jamiegoode 2163 Views Chianti Classico

Website: https://www.sanfelice.com/en San Felice is another wine estate with a lot of properties. These in the past were accommodation for

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Latest Portugal Videos 

Video: reviving the tradition of making wines in amphora in the Alentejo, Portugal

January 18, 2024 jamiegoode 7019 Views Alentejo, Amphora

The south of the Alentejo wine region has a tradition of making wine in large clay amphorae known as talhas.

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Canada Features Latest 

In Niagara, Canada (11) The Organized Crime Winery

January 17, 2024January 18, 2024 jamiegoode 3349 Views Niagara

Website: https://www.organizedcrimewinery.com/ The Organized Crime is a slightly unusual name for a winery, but they are making some really lovely

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In Niagara, Canada (10) Malivoire, now a Gamay specialist

January 16, 2024January 18, 2024 jamiegoode 3292 Views Niagara

Website: www.malivoire.com Martin Malivoire’s background is in film special effects, so during his career he saw a lot of change,

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Highlights: Champagne Taittinger Comtes de Champagne Grand Crus Rosé 2011

January 16, 2024 jamiegoode 2527 Views

2011 was a very tricky vintage in Champagne, but I really liked the Comtes Blanc de Blanc, and here’s the

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Food and wine South Africa 

Restaurants: Post and Pepper, Stellenbosch

January 15, 2024January 15, 2024 jamiegoode 4512 Views Restaurants

Website: https://postandpepper.co.za/ This was one of the gastronomic highlights of a recent trip to South Africa, where we spent a

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Another airline lounge raid, 12 wines tried
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Another airline lounge raid, 12 wines tried

March 4, 2026March 4, 2026 jamiegoode

Flying out to Hong Kong today so I did a lounge raid (T5 BA first class lounge – because of

Apollo’s Praise: an exciting new producer in New York’s Finger Lakes wine region
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Apollo’s Praise: an exciting new producer in New York’s Finger Lakes wine region

March 3, 2026 jamiegoode
Porto in pictures, with a short film
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Porto in pictures, with a short film

March 2, 2026March 2, 2026 jamiegoode
Augalevada, a star from Spain’s Ribeiro
Features Latest Spain 

Augalevada, a star from Spain’s Ribeiro

March 1, 2026March 1, 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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