In Georgia, on the qvevri trail, experiencing the living fossil of wine
Jamie Goode travels east, 8000 years back in time, to visit Georgia and experience wine as it would have been
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Features
Top wines of 2019 (that I paid for)
As an emerging wine journalist with an OK-ish reputation, many of the wines I try or drink aren’t paid for
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Visiting Georgia: an ancient wine culture, and a country of contrasts
Georgia is a country of contrasts. In September I made my first visit: I discovered a lot, and I also
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Bordeaux 2017 in bottle, part 2: the right bank
Now the 2017 vintage from Bordeaux is in bottle, the October Union des Grand Crus tasting was a good chance
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Glou Glou wines: a tasting and some commentary
There’s a category of wines that goes unofficially by the name of Glou Glou. It’s a French term that was
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Beyond grower Champagne: where have all the growers gone?
In March 2019 Ring and Goode visited Champagne, to taste, visit and taste some more. In the recent past, the
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Roussillon
Treve Ring visits windswept, wild French Catalonia When you are neighbouring the single biggest wine producing region in the world,
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The best wines from Franschhoek
Jamie Goode and Treve Ring choose their favourite WO Franschhoek wines During our week in the Franschhoek region we met
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Bordeaux 2017: the whites
Notes on 13 white Bordeaux wines from the 2017 vintage This was a nice chance to look at the 2017
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Dom Maxwell of Greystone, the vineyard ferment guy
Jamie Goode catches up with Dom Maxwell, winemaker at Greystone in New Zealand’s Waipara wine region, to taste his wines
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