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Highlights Latest Portugal 

Highlights : Filipa Pato & William Wouters Flos Castanea 2022, Bairrada, Portugal

January 10, 2024 Treve Ring 2928 Views Bairrada, biodynamic

This experimental project was made with the grandson of Vinho Verde biodynamic pioneer Fernando Paiva, of Quinta da Palmirinha. Paiva

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Highlights: Joshua Cooper Shay’s Flat Cabernet Sauvignon 2021, Pyrenees, Victoria, Australia

November 22, 2023 Treve Ring 2977 Views biodynamic, Pyrenees

Joshua Cooper grew up in the vineyards with parents Alan and Nelly Cooper, and their pioneering biodynamic Cobaw Ridge winery

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Features Italy 

In Montalcino: the Challenging 2023 Vintage

September 18, 2023March 5, 2024 Treve Ring 4050 Views Brunello di Montalcino, Harvest, Toscana

I spent time in Montalcino in end August, the last opportunity to taste with winemakers before they are headstrong into

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In Montalcino: Canalicchio di Sopra

September 13, 2023September 18, 2023 Treve Ring 4284 Views Brunello di Montalcino, Toscana

I knew I would like Francesco Ripaccioli when he professed his deep love for Champagne. Francesco, cellar rat / managing

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Highlights Italy 

Highlights: La Spinetta Timorasso 2021, Piemonte, Italy

September 4, 2023March 5, 2024 Treve Ring 3254 Views Piemonte

Timorasso is an ancient indigenous grape variety of Piemonte, worthy and regarded enough to have its own DOC (!). This

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Highlights South Africa 

Highlights: Swerwer Rooi Groen Skins 2021, Swartland, South Africa

August 1, 2023March 5, 2024 Treve Ring 3090 Views orange wine, Sémillon, swartland

Swerwer (Nomad / Wanderer) is Jasper Wickens project in the Swartland, and this Rooi Groen (red-green) Skins version is an

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Highlights: Sottimano Barbaresco Cottá 2018, Piemonte, Italy

May 9, 2023May 9, 2023 Treve Ring 3521 Views barbaresco, Nebbiolo, Piemonte

Andrea Sottimano and his father Rino produce highly regarded, structural, age worthy wines from their 13 hectares across Barbaresco. This

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Alsace Features Latest 

Focus: Alsace Riesling

May 2, 2023 Treve Ring 5326 Views Riesling

Earlier this year, Conseil Interprofessionnel des Vins d’Alsace (Vins Alsace) held a worldwide Millésimes Alsace DigiTasting, sending out hundreds of

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Canada Features 

The wines of Lock + Worth from Canada’s Okanagan Valley

April 11, 2023April 28, 2023 Treve Ring 4230 Views british columbia, Naramata, Okanagan Valley

Website: Lock + Worth Matt Sherlock and Ross Hackworth make some of the Okanagan’s most interesting wines under their Lock

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Highlights Spain 

Highlights : Borja Pérez Artífice Vidueños 2020, Ycoden Daute Isora, Tenerife, Spain

February 17, 2023April 28, 2023 Treve Ring 3043 Views Canary Islands, Island wine, Tenerife, volcanic

Borja Pérez is an ex-race car driver-turned winemaker based in the northern part of Tenerife. After his previous high octane

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Nigel Greening on navigating the tricky waters wine finds itself in, and the problems with ‘fine wine’: where does Felton Road sit?

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Back in February 2025 I attended the Pinot Noir 2025 conference in Christchurch, New Zealand. As well as some great

The wines of Muxagat, from Portugal’s Douro region
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The wines of Muxagat, from Portugal’s Douro region

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New releases from Savage, one of South Africa’s very top producers
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New releases from Savage, one of South Africa’s very top producers

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Gonçalves Faria: serious, classic Bairrada wines, now under the Niepoort stable
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Gonçalves Faria: serious, classic Bairrada wines, now under the Niepoort stable

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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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