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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 4465 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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Features Italy Latest 

Chianti Classico deep dive (4) San Felice

January 18, 2024January 18, 2024 jamiegoode 2482 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 7396 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 3673 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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Canada Features Latest 

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

January 16, 2024January 18, 2024 jamiegoode 3526 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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Champagne Highlights Latest 

Highlights: Champagne Taittinger Comtes de Champagne Grand Crus Rosé 2011

January 16, 2024 jamiegoode 2771 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 5032 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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Highlights Latest New Zealand 

Highlights: The Hermit Ram Salty White 2022

January 15, 2024January 15, 2024 jamiegoode 5402 Views North Canterbury

This is a blend of Pinot Blanc, Sauvignon Blanc and Riesling from organic vineyards in North Canterbury. They are fermented

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Features Latest Loire 

A Centre Loire study: seven wines, red and white

January 14, 2024 jamiegoode 2401 Views

Tasted these Centre Loire wines together. It’s an interesting region and there are lots of good terroirs here. I visited

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Food and wine Latest 

Restaurants: Gymkhana, London

January 14, 2024January 14, 2024 jamiegoode 10696 Views Restaurants

Restaurants: Gymkhana Website: https://gymkhanalondon.com/ I first visited Gymkhana back in September 2014, about a year after it opened. This was

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Exploring Vinho Verde: visiting star producer Anselmo Mendes

June 2, 2026June 2, 2026 jamiegoode

One of the most important people in the transformation of Vinho Verde from a region of gassy ephemeral wines into

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Features Latest Portugal 

Current releases from Dão legend Antonio Madeira

June 1, 2026June 1, 2026 jamiegoode
Restaurants: dinner at La Trompette, Chiswick, with three interesting wines
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Restaurants: dinner at La Trompette, Chiswick, with three interesting wines

June 1, 2026 jamiegoode
Pannobile – meeting this coalition of amazing Burgenland producers, who are making some of Austria’s most interesting wines
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Pannobile – meeting this coalition of amazing Burgenland producers, who are making some of Austria’s most interesting wines

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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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