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Do I miss travel?

March 1, 2021March 2, 2021 jamiegoode 5008 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 8252 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 11958 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 9229 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 6680 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 8325 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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Features Hungary Regions 

Furmint study: investigating the dry wines from Hungary’s famous white grape

February 16, 2021February 17, 2021 jamiegoode 14300 Views Furmint, tokaji

Hungary used to be the third biggest wine producing country in the world, says Caroline Gilby who was leading this

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An ode to Carignan, Carineña, Mazuelo…

February 12, 2021February 19, 2021 Lisse Garnett 8770 Views Carignan

Lisse Garnett spells an ode to Carignan, a variety that never seems to get any credit. And Jamie Goode taste

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Champagne Features Sponsored content 

The ‘traditional method’, and how it has enabled Champagne to shed the complication of vintage variation

February 11, 2021 jamiegoode 8656 Views

Champagne is rare in the wine world, in that it’s a wine region that is incredibly consumer-facing. Whereas many of

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Features New Zealand Profiles 

Neudorf, one of New Zealand’s top small wineries, with Rosie Finn

February 10, 2021 jamiegoode 11090 Views Nelson

On Instagram Live, I caught up with Rosie Finn, who since 2016 has been back in New Zealand working at

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A big tasting of Tenerife wines, with some nice surprises
Features Latest Spain 

A big tasting of Tenerife wines, with some nice surprises

September 10, 2026September 10, 2026 jamiegoode

As part of the recent Island Wines Summit in Tenerife we had a chance to taste through a range of

Canada’s Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys (15) Meyer Family Vineyards
Canada Features Latest Profiles 

Canada’s Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys (15) Meyer Family Vineyards

September 9, 2026September 9, 2026 jamiegoode
Rheingau riesling tasting
Features Germany Latest Regions 

Rheingau Riesling: tasting through some of the best examples at the VDP tasting 2026

September 8, 2026September 8, 2026 jamiegoode
Canada’s Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys (14) Nostalgia
Canada Features Latest Regions 

Canada’s Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys (14) Nostalgia

September 5, 2026September 5, 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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