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Exploring the Roussillon (4) Domaine Pertuisane

December 28, 2025December 31, 2025 jamiegoode 1238 Views Roussillon

Website: https://pertuisane.com/ We’re in Maury. It’s beautiful and rugged, and the vineyards are rocky. I’m with Richard Case, who makes

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Camillo Donati, natural sparkling wines from Emilia Romagna

December 26, 2025December 26, 2025 jamiegoode 921 Views

Website: https://www.camillodonati.it/en/ This winery was established in 1930 to make some wine for home consumption, by the grandfather of Camillo

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The problem with rosé, and one retailer’s solution

December 24, 2025February 12, 2026 jamiegoode 552 Views

Rosé is an important category, and everyone loves it. It has grown a lot of late. But it has a

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Exploring the Roussillon (3) Bila-Haut

December 24, 2025January 6, 2026 jamiegoode 1159 Views Roussillon

Website: https://www.chapoutier.com/fr/boutique/nos-domaines-et-maison/domaine-de-bila-haut-38 Bila-Haut is Chapoutier’s Roussillon project, based in Latour De France. Back in 1998 Michel Chapoutier bought 50 hectares

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Exploring the Roussillon (2) Cave Dom Brial

December 24, 2025December 24, 2025 jamiegoode 931 Views Roussillon

Website: https://www.dom-brial.com/ Dom Brial is a quality-focused cooperative based in Baixas, a small village of just 2000 inhabitants. The 200

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Exploring the Roussillon (1) an introduction

December 24, 2025December 31, 2025 jamiegoode 2267 Views Roussillon

Roussillon My exploration of the Roussillon began in Perpignan, which is the largest town in the region, and is located

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Visiting Villa Melnik, one of Bulgaria’s leading wineries, in the Struma Valley

December 22, 2025December 22, 2025 jamiegoode 1917 Views

Villa Melnik is a family-owned winery in Harsovo, in southwest Bulgaria, in the Struma River Valley of the Thracian Valley.

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Kumeu River, New Zealand’s most celebrated Chardonnay producer – comparing 2024 and 2014 vintages

December 21, 2025January 5, 2026 jamiegoode 1756 Views Chardonnay, Hawke's Bay

Website: https://kumeuriver.co.nz/ Michael Brajkovich was in town to show the latest releases of Kumeu River’s Chardonnays, from the 2024 vintage.

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Anthill Farms Winery: Californian elegance

December 20, 2025 jamiegoode 907 Views Chardonnay, pinot noir

Website: https://www.anthillfarms.com/ Anthill Farms began with 8 barrels of wine in 2024, and was started by three winemakers who’d met

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The wine aisles at Lidl are depressing if you care about the wine industry

December 20, 2025 jamiegoode 2039 Views Business of wine

I popped into Lidl today to have a look at their wine offering. Lidl is one of the two German

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New releases from Stellenbosch star Meerlust
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New releases from Stellenbosch star Meerlust

March 23, 2026 jamiegoode

I’ve written up the wines of Meerlust quite extensively here in the past, and most recently from a visit to

The remarkable wines of Anne-Claire Schott, Three Lakes, Switzerland
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The remarkable wines of Anne-Claire Schott, Three Lakes, Switzerland

March 22, 2026 jamiegoode
Visiting Black Chalk, tasting current releases and the exciting 2025 base wine blends, at this superb English sparkling wine producer
England Features Latest Profiles 

Visiting Black Chalk, tasting current releases and the exciting 2025 base wine blends, at this superb English sparkling wine producer

March 20, 2026March 21, 2026 jamiegoode
fryers cove bamboes bay
Features Latest South Africa 

Fryer’s Cove: precise wines from the cool west coast of South Africa

March 20, 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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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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