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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 3809 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 3598 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 6939 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 5137 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 19421 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 3057 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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Features South Africa 

South African Sauvignon Blanc at 10 years old: does it age?

October 5, 2022November 1, 2022 Treve Ring 4469 Views Aged Wine, Blind Tasting, Sauvignon Blanc

What do travelling wine writer geeks do on a day free from events? Taste more wines of course. South African

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Australia Features France Latest South Africa Spain 

Grenache : a Study

September 8, 2022September 13, 2022 Treve Ring 5252 Views Garnacha, Grenache

(/ɡrəˈnæʃ/) Grenache is one of the most widely planted red wine grapes planted on the globe, which would explain the

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Highlights Latest Spain 

Highlight : Las Moradas de San Martin Libro Once Las Luces 2011, Sierra de Gredos, Spain

August 19, 2022August 25, 2022 Treve Ring 3806 Views Garnacha, granite, Gredos, Grenache, old vine

Las Moradas de San Martin sits at a height of 870m above sea level, on the fringes of the Sierra

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Features Latest 

Arneis: a study

August 19, 2022August 22, 2022 Treve Ring 4455 Views arneis

{ahr NAYZ} Piemonte’s ‘Little Rascal’, so named for its tricky nature in the vineyard, Arneis has been rooted in Roero,

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Clos d’Entre des Murs: a remarkable walled vineyard in the Loire, full of walls inside!
Features Latest Loire 

Clos d’Entre des Murs: a remarkable walled vineyard in the Loire, full of walls inside!

July 9, 2025 jamiegoode

In Saumur there is a very distinctive vineyard, called Clos d’Entre des Murs. I’ve come across walled vineyards before, but

Modest success is the enemy of true success
Features Latest 

Modest success is the enemy of true success

July 8, 2025July 8, 2025 jamiegoode
A night out in Angers: Cercle Rouge and Barco Vino
Features Food and wine Latest Loire 

A night out in Angers: Cercle Rouge and Barco Vino

July 6, 2025 jamiegoode
Vite Maritata: growing vines on trees, and tasting the Lèmme Lèmme from Buondomo
Features Italy Latest Wine Science 

Vite Maritata: growing vines on trees, and tasting the Lèmme Lèmme from Buondomo

July 4, 2025July 5, 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.

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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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