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Features Loire Regions 

Red wines from the Loire – a spotlight on an exciting category

April 12, 2021April 18, 2021 jamiegoode 12200 Views

I’ve recently been tasting through red wines from the Loire, and I’ve been really excited by what I found. In

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Niepoort launch their amazing 2019 Vintage Port

April 10, 2021June 8, 2021 jamiegoode 11782 Views Douro, Port

Niepoort have launched their 2019 Vintage Port, in a tasting beamed live from the Niepoort Lodge in Vila Nova de

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Features South Africa 

Symmetry: amazing South African tonic essences from Tista Cristini

April 9, 2021April 9, 2021 jamiegoode 10876 Views soft drinks, tonics

Tista Cristini is the dude behind Symmetry Tonic Essences. He left South Africa for 15 years, and spent a decade

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Alsace Features 

Vivant: a new interactive online wine experience

April 8, 2021 jamiegoode 6317 Views

Michael Baum, Silicon Valley entrepreneur, entered the wine world in 2014 when he bought Château de Pommard in Burgundy. As

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Mediadoping: how some social media influencers aren’t playing fair

April 4, 2021June 8, 2021 jamiegoode 10296 Views

I love Instagram. I spend a lot of time there, and I make some money from paid partnerships. It’s one

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Oeno at home: tasting wines from this high-end wine company

April 2, 2021 jamiegoode 4886 Views

This time last year I went to an amazing tasting at Landing 42 of the Leadenhall Building in London. It

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Features Wine Science 

Ageing wines in space? Sending dormant vines into space? Is this at all scientifically interesting?

April 1, 2021April 1, 2021 jamiegoode 8113 Views

Ageing wine in space? It’s all over the news at the moment, courtesy a rather bizarre publicity stunt that’s looking

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Beaujolais Features Regions 

Jean Max: the wines of Maxime Barrot, a new star of natural Beaujolais

March 31, 2021 jamiegoode 8598 Views Gamay, Natural wine

I was blown away when I tasted these wines from new natural wine negociant Jean Max (declaration of interest: they

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A Cabernet Franc study, with UK fine wine merchant Lay & Wheeler

March 29, 2021March 29, 2021 jamiegoode 5772 Views cabernet franc

This was a Zoom tasting with UK fine wine merchant Lay & Wheeler, with wines in small bottles courtesy of

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Cramele Recas: new releases from this significant Romanian wine producer

March 26, 2021 jamiegoode 6225 Views Romania

Cramele Recas is a large winery in Romania (1250 hectares of estate vineyards, production of 25 million bottles), making modern,

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Canada’s Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys: (3) Martin’s Lane
Canada Features Latest 

Canada’s Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys: (3) Martin’s Lane

January 26, 2026January 26, 2026 jamiegoode

Website: https://www.martinslanewinery.com/ One of the leading Okanagan wineries is Martin’s Lane. This is one of the wineries that’s part of

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

Canada’s Okanagan and Similkameen valleys (2) Spearhead

January 25, 2026January 26, 2026 jamiegoode
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

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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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