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Highlights Italy Latest 

Highlights: Sottimano Barbaresco Cottá 2018, Piemonte, Italy

May 9, 2023May 9, 2023 Treve Ring 4209 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 6009 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 4919 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 3574 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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Argentina Highlights 

Highlights : Bodega y Viñedos Nicolas Catena La Marchigiana Criolla Vino Natural Ancestral 2019, Mendoza, Argentina

February 15, 2023April 28, 2023 Treve Ring 4412 Views Amphora, Natural wine

La Marchigiana is Catina’s respectful look to the past, fermenting indigenous Criolla in clay pots. Though the amphora here was

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California Highlights 

Highlights: Jolie Laide Dans le Vide 2021, California, USA

January 28, 2023March 7, 2023 Treve Ring 4156 Views

Jolie-Laide is a one-man operation based in the Sebastopol winery of Pax Mahle, where winemaker Scott Schultz (Pax’s cellar master),

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Features Regions South Africa 

Cap Classique, an exciting category for South African wine

January 25, 2023March 7, 2023 Treve Ring 8774 Views

Last fall in Franschhoek, Goode and I spent a morning tasting through 50+ Cap Classique, together with a handful of

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Champagne France Highlights Latest Sparkling wine 

Memorable Champagnes of 2022

January 3, 2023January 3, 2023 Treve Ring 5812 Views

Treve Ring and Jamie Goode pick their memorable Champagnes of 2022. First up, it’s Ring’s selections, and then Goode’s. It

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Austria Beaujolais Canada Features France Italy New to wine 

Pét-Nat: A Primer

December 22, 2022January 23, 2023 Treve Ring 23074 Views pet-nat

You’ve see them on the shelves of hip wine shops and on the lists of hot wine bars. They’re the

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Highlights Oregon 

Highlights: Brooks Wines Ara Riesling 2021, Willamette Valley, Oregon, USA

November 15, 2022March 7, 2023 Treve Ring 3492 Views Riesling, Willamette

One of the many highlights of the Brooks Wines portfolio, Ara was one of the first Rieslings founder/winemaker Jimi Brooks

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2025, a wine year in pictures
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2025, a wine year in pictures

January 1, 2026January 1, 2026 jamiegoode

Here’s a selection of pictures from 2025. Quite a year.

A mini-Champagne study: Ayala, Bollinger, Albert Lebrun, Forget Brimont
Champagne Features Latest 

A mini-Champagne study: Ayala, Bollinger, Albert Lebrun, Forget Brimont

January 1, 2026January 1, 2026 jamiegoode
Exploring the Roussillon (5) Torredemer Mangin
Features France Latest 

Exploring the Roussillon (5) Torredemer Mangin

December 31, 2025December 31, 2025 jamiegoode
Failla Wines: beautiful site-specific wines from some of northern California’s best vineyards
California Features Latest 

Failla Wines: beautiful site-specific wines from some of northern California’s best vineyards

December 29, 2025 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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