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Remembering Steven Spurrier

March 9, 2021March 10, 2021 jamiegoode 8396 Views

I was sad to hear that Steven Spurrier passed today at the age of 79, after a struggle with cancer.

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Features Profiles Spain TOP STORIES 

El Marco de Jerez: the terroir revolution in the Sherry Triangle, with Ramiro Ibáñez of Bodega Cota 45 (UBE, Agostado, Pandorga)

March 9, 2021May 15, 2021 jamiegoode 10213 Views sherry

There is a revolution afoot in the Marco de Jerez (the Sherry Triangle that includes Jerez, El Puerto and Sanlúcar).

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New wines from Château Mercian, a leading Japanese winery

March 6, 2021March 9, 2021 jamiegoode 10805 Views

I have visited Château Mercian a couple of times before. They have wineries in both of Japan’s major wine regions,

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Bordeaux Features Regions 

Bordeaux: fine wines for drinking

March 4, 2021 jamiegoode 8415 Views

Jamie Goode tastes through nine red Bordeaux wines ‘for drinking’: these are sub-£30 bottles that UK wine merchant Justerini &

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Do I miss travel?

March 1, 2021March 2, 2021 jamiegoode 4724 Views

Do I miss travel? Ok, good question. For the last four years before 2020 I was spending around 300 days

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Gérard Bertrand’s Virtual Organic French Wine Festival

February 28, 2021March 2, 2021 Treve Ring 7565 Views organic

Gérard Bertrand held a virtual Organic French Wine Festival last week, with invited distributors, media, retailers, and sommeliers tasting through a

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Longaví’s ‘Glup’: superb wines from the south of Chile

February 27, 2021 jamiegoode 11141 Views

Longaví is a collaboration between David Nieuwoudt from South Africa and Julio Bouchon of Chile. The wines come from the

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Should wine critics be declaring ratings from samples taken with Coravin, or from small bottles?

February 21, 2021 jamiegoode 8894 Views

I think wine critics should indicate when the sample they have tasted has been Coravined. As a producer, if I

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Chile Features Italy 

An ode to Carménère, Grande Vidure, Merlot Peumo…

February 19, 2021June 8, 2021 Lisse Garnett 6230 Views carmenere

Lisse Garnett reports on this Coelocanth of grape varieties. Once a major Bordeaux variety, Carménère was wiped out in the

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Gonzalez Byass: 10 years of the Las Palmas Sherries

February 18, 2021February 18, 2021 jamiegoode 7874 Views sherry

Back in 2011, Gonzalez Byass had a great idea. Winemaker Antonio Flores had been reading an old book about sherry,

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Digital aggregation and the quiet restructuring of Europe’s fine wine distribution

March 10, 2026March 10, 2026 jamiegoode

[Please note: this is a sponsored article authored by a third party.] The European wine market has always been fragmented

burgundy tasting with jasper morris
Burgundy Features Latest Regions 

Inside Burgundy: a tasting with Jasper Morris, one of the top experts of the region

March 9, 2026March 9, 2026 jamiegoode
Exploring Bolgheri through the lens of one of its top estates: Ornellaia masterclass with Denise Cosentino
Features Italy Latest Profiles 

Exploring Bolgheri through the lens of one of its top estates: Ornellaia masterclass with Denise Cosentino

March 8, 2026March 8, 2026 jamiegoode
Australia’s old vine heritage – a masterclass showing some Aussie classics
Australia Features Latest Regions 

Australia’s old vine heritage – a masterclass showing some Aussie classics

March 8, 2026March 8, 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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