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Author: Treve Ring

Highlights Portugal 

Highlight: Azores Wine Co. Arinto dos Açores 2018

March 20, 2020March 24, 2020 Treve Ring 5993 Views Azores, volcanic

Winemaker António Maçanita may be best known for his FitaPreta wines in Alentejo, though with this venture he looked to

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Champagne Features Profiles Sparkling wine 

In Champagne: Vilmart et Cie

March 11, 2020April 23, 2020 Treve Ring 12293 Views grower champagne

Continuing their journey through Champagne, Ring and Goode visit Laurent Champs at Vilmart, and discover wines of elegance and purity

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Highlights Jura 

Highlights: a duo from star Jura producer Domaine Labet

March 9, 2020April 23, 2020 Treve Ring 12043 Views Chardonnay, Jura, Natural wine

The Labet family of Rotalier in the area south of Lons-le-Saunier, known as the Sud Revermont, have been making thoughtful

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Highlights Portugal 

Highlight: Luis Seabra Indie Xisto 2016

March 2, 2020March 9, 2020 Treve Ring 7086 Views Douro, Schist

After a successful decade as winemaker and right hand to Dirk at Niepoort, Luis Seabra decided to break out on

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Highlights from Millésime Bio & around Montpellier

February 26, 2020March 5, 2020 Treve Ring 6493 Views biodynamic, Natural wine, Organics, trade

As Goode tidily wrote up, 2020 saw the 27th edition of Millésime Bio, the world’s largest organic wine fair. We crossed

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Highlights Spain 

Highlights: Bodegas Lustau Almacenista José Luis González Obregón Amontillado del Puerto

January 11, 2020September 6, 2020 Treve Ring 6790 Views amontillado, fortified, sherry

The Spanish word almacenista means warehousekeeper or wholesaler. In Sherry-speak, Almacenistas are generally small family businesses that buy or produce

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Champagne Highlights 

Highlights : Champagne Rémi Leroy NV Brut Nature

January 5, 2020January 12, 2020 Treve Ring 9413 Views champagne, grower champagne

Based in the Aube, which shares the same Portlandian and Kimmeridgian limestone soils as Chablis just further south, young Rémi

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Austria Highlights 

Highlights : Hajszan-Neumann 2016 Gemischter Satz Natural, Wiener Gemischter Satz DAC Nussberg, Austria

December 30, 2019January 3, 2020 Treve Ring 7036 Views biodynamic, Demeter, Natural wine

With a name like Fritz Wieninger, you have to trust that wine, and Vienna, is in his blood. Fritz is

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Australia Highlights 

Highlights: Ochota Barrels 2018 Home… Pinot Noir

December 23, 2019January 16, 2020 Treve Ring 5877 Views Adelaide Hills, pinot noir

After making it through the impressive/annoying two layers and colours of wax (so pretty though), this incredibly spicy, tight and

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Highlights 

Highlights : Suertes del Marqués 2017 Vidonia

December 21, 2019 Treve Ring 5386 Views Tenerife

From Tenerife’s volcanic soils, and organically farmed old-vine Listán Blanco at 350-450m, this mineral-driven blend was native fermented in neutral

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Herrenhof Lamprecht: impressive wines from volcanic Styria, with a particular focus on Furmint and field blends
Austria Features Latest 

Herrenhof Lamprecht: impressive wines from volcanic Styria, with a particular focus on Furmint and field blends

October 18, 2026October 18, 2026 jamiegoode

Website: https://www.herrenhof.net/ Back in the day, Herrenhof Lamprecht, now a wine estate in Vulkanland Steiermark (Austria) was a monastery. There’s

Santuvario, a natural wine producer in Alto Piemonte, Italy
Features Italy Latest 

Santuvario, a natural wine producer in Alto Piemonte, Italy

October 16, 2026 jamiegoode
Otrepò Pavese Classese: tasting through a large range of these impressive Pinot Noir-based sparkling wines from northwest Italy
Features Italy Latest Regions Sparkling wine 

Otrepò Pavese Classese: tasting through a large range of these impressive Pinot Noir-based sparkling wines from northwest Italy

October 15, 2026October 15, 2026 jamiegoode
Hazendal, a Stellenbosch wine estate transformed
Features Latest South Africa 

Hazendal, a Stellenbosch wine estate transformed

October 14, 2026October 14, 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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