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Features Profiles Spain 

Bodegas Arautava, Tenerife: wines marked by Spanish and Portuguese invaders, volcanic eruptions and a vine training system more crazy than Colares

June 28, 2021June 28, 2021 Lisse Garnett 8319 Views

Volcanic soils, the idiosyncratic cordón trenzado system and the mighty Atlantic make for a maverick terroir on the Island of

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Features Moldova Regions 

Moldova’s best wines: part 5, wineries P-V

June 27, 2021June 27, 2021 jamiegoode 9811 Views

Podgoria Vin https://www.podgoriavin.md/ Podgoria Vin Genesis Viorica 202013% alcohol. Fermented in stainless steel. Highly aromatic with table grapes and green

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Features Moldova Regions 

Moldova’s best wines: part 4, wineries I-N

June 27, 2021June 27, 2021 jamiegoode 7521 Views

Vinuri laloveni Vinuri Ialoveni was first founded in 1857. The company makes a range of different wines as well as

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Features Moldova Regions 

Moldova’s best wines, part 3: wineries D-G

June 27, 2021June 27, 2021 jamiegoode 7515 Views

Vinăria DAC DAC Balada Duro 201913% alcohol. 50% Sauvignon Blanc, 35% Fetească Regală, 15% Chardonnay. This is fruity and lively

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Features Moldova Regions 

Moldova’s best wines, part 1, introduction

June 24, 2021June 28, 2021 jamiegoode 11075 Views

Jamie Goode tastes some of the top wines from Moldova, a country where wine is integral to the way of

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Features Moldova Regions 

Moldova’s best wines, part 2 – wineries A-C

June 24, 2021June 27, 2021 jamiegoode 11105 Views

Agrici Winery Founded in 1958 and then modernized in 2000 with state-of-the-art equipment. This is the winemaking arm of the

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Features Italy Profiles 

Pio Cesare: 140 years of benchmark Barolo and Barbaresco

June 23, 2021May 14, 2022 jamiegoode 9557 Views barbaresco, barolo, Nebbiolo, piedmont

This was a tasting to celebrate 140 years of this important Piedmont producer, whose production is split almost equally between

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País, Mission, Criolla Chica: the Beaujolais of the Americas?

June 18, 2021August 1, 2021 Lisse Garnett 12061 Views Mission, Pais

Much like the Gamay of Beaujolais, twenty years ago País was seen as fit for only commonplace, lowly table wine.

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Austria Features 

Grüner Veltliner study, and a remarkable story about the discovery of its parentage

June 17, 2021February 5, 2024 jamiegoode 6886 Views gruner veltliner

Grüner Veltliner is Austria’s most important grape variety, and it’s one that is growing in popularity elsewhere. With almost 14

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Features South Africa 

The different faces of South African Chenin Blanc

June 15, 2021June 15, 2021 jamiegoode 14379 Views Chenin Blanc

Of all the grape varieties grown in the Cape, it’s Chenin Blanc that perhaps has the strongest claim to be

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Canada’s Okanagan and Similkameen valleys (2) Spearhead
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Canada’s Okanagan and Similkameen valleys (2) Spearhead

January 25, 2026January 25, 2026 jamiegoode

Website: https://www.spearheadwinery.com/ Spearhead is a boutique winery based on the South East Kelowna slopes, which is a recently established Okanagan

Goode’s Crib Sheets No 4 – South African Chardonnay
Features Latest South Africa 

Goode’s Crib Sheets No 4 – South African Chardonnay

January 23, 2026January 24, 2026 jamiegoode
Canada’s Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys: an overview
Canada Features Latest Regions 

Canada’s Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys: an overview

January 23, 2026January 23, 2026 jamiegoode
Appellation Marlborough Wine: the 2025 selection of Sauvignon Blanc
Features Latest New Zealand 

Appellation Marlborough Wine: the 2025 selection of Sauvignon Blanc

January 22, 2026January 22, 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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