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Burgundy Features Latest 

Discovering the Mâconnais (4) Cave d’Azé

July 27, 2024August 11, 2025 jamiegoode 4403 Views Maconnais

Website: www.caveaze.com Cave D’Azé is another of the cooperative wineries in the Mâconnais. They have 60 partner growers farming 280

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Highlights: Riverview Pinot Noir 2021 Crouch Valley, Essex

July 23, 2024July 23, 2024 jamiegoode 3424 Views pinot noir

Website: https://riverviewcrouchvalley.com/ It’s an interesting time for English still wines at the moment, and the Crouch Valley in Essex is

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California Highlights Latest 

Highlights: Cruse Wine Co Sparkling White Zinfandel

July 22, 2024July 22, 2024 jamiegoode 3602 Views Zinfandel

White Zinfandel is a category that rarely makes it to these pages (although it does get a mention in this

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Highlights: Weyborne, a new-ish English sparkling wine producer tilting at the top

July 20, 2024July 20, 2024 jamiegoode 4151 Views Sparkling wine

Owner Nick Clarke to purchased the historic Blackdown Park estate in 2010 (near Haslemere, Surrey), and has planted 25 acres

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California Features Latest 

Russian River Valley, Sonoma, California (2) Beyond Pinot Noir

July 20, 2024November 4, 2024 jamiegoode 4182 Views Russian River Valley

The Russian River Valley’s fame is largely due to its excellence with Pinot Noir, but there is more to this

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Russian River Valley, Sonoma, California (1): exploring the neighbourhoods through the lens of Pinot Noir

July 20, 2024November 4, 2024 jamiegoode 11845 Views pinot noir, Russian River Valley, Sonoma

Back in 2003 the Russian River Pinot Forum was first established. The goal was to educate wine buyers about what

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Burgundy Features Latest Uncategorized 

Discovering the Mâconnais (3) Château de la Greffière

July 19, 2024August 11, 2025 jamiegoode 6344 Views Maconnais

Website: https://chateaudelagreffiere.com/en/ Greffière is an exciting producer in the Mâconnais, based in La Roche Vineuse, and they also have a

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Burgundy Features Latest 

Discovering the Mâconnais (2) Terres Secrètes

July 19, 2024August 11, 2025 jamiegoode 4813 Views Maconnais

Website: https://terres-secretes.com/en/ The wine world needs good, affordable wine, and when cooperatives are well run, they can help provide it.

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Burgundy Features Latest 

The wines of Dugat Py, a leading domaine in Gevrey-Chambertin, Bourgogne

July 17, 2024July 10, 2026 jamiegoode 8081 Views

Website: http://www.dugat-py.com Things are changing in Burgundy (or Bourgogne, as the region now likes to be called). A new generation

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Alsace Features Latest 

Alsace adventure (5) heading north to see Mochel, Pfister and Loew

July 15, 2024July 15, 2024 jamiegoode 3882 Views

On a rainy October day in Alsace, Lars Daniels and I headed up to meet three producers working in the

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Galiza: a seminar focusing on the wines of Galicia, Spain
Features Latest Spain 

Galiza: a seminar focusing on the wines of Galicia, Spain

October 12, 2026October 12, 2026 jamiegoode

For the 2026 edition of Simplesmente Vinho the guest region was Galiza (Galicia) in Spain, and there were nine visiting

The Bothey, an interesting wine project from South Africa
Features Latest South Africa 

The Bothey, an interesting wine project from South Africa

October 12, 2026October 12, 2026 jamiegoode
Loosen Barry: where the Clare Valley meets the Mosel, a Riesling collaboration
Australia Features Latest 

Loosen Barry: where the Clare Valley meets the Mosel, a Riesling collaboration

October 11, 2026October 11, 2026 jamiegoode
All Good Things: tasting three examples from this new supermarket-targeted brand
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All Good Things: tasting three examples from this new supermarket-targeted brand

October 9, 2026October 9, 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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