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Burgundy Features Latest TOP STORIES 

Aligoté: how a lesser-known variety from Bourgogne is suddenly hitting the big time, with a bright future ahead of it

May 22, 2025May 22, 2025 jamiegoode 5941 Views Aligote

Website: https://aligoteurs.wordpress.com/ Tucked away in a wood, in Flagey-Échezeaux – at the heart of the Route des Grands Crus in

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Features Profiles Regions Spain 

Terroir al Límit and Terroir Sense Fronteres: stunning, brave wines from Priorat and Montsant by Dominik and Tatjana (updated 2025)

May 21, 2025May 22, 2025 jamiegoode 8851 Views montsant, Priorat

Websites: https://terroir-sense-fronteres.com/ and https://terroir-al-limit.com/ Terroir al Límit is one of Priorat’s most highly acclaimed wineries, established by Dominik Huber and

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Features Italy Latest 

Five from important Tuscan producer Frescobaldi

May 21, 2025 jamiegoode 1160 Views Chianti Classico, Tuscany

Website: https://www.frescobaldi.com/en/ Frescobaldi is a noted Tuscan producer with nine wineries in the province, making a wide range of wines.

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Tasting top South African Chardonnay
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South African Chardonnay: how does it stack up internationally? A tasting with the South African Chardonnay Association in London

May 20, 2025May 20, 2025 jamiegoode 7928 Views Chardonnay

Website: https://chardonnayassociationsouthafrica.com/ The Chardonnay Association of South Africa is a re-born organisation with the aim to market Chardonnay internationally, and

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Restaurants: Bubala, Soho, London

May 19, 2025June 11, 2025 jamiegoode 1781 Views

Bubala is a small London chain of three vegetarian restaurants (in Kings Cross, Spitafield and Soho) focusing on middle-eastern food.

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Features Latest Portugal 

Around Portugal in seven fine wines: a seminar at Vinho da Casa in Lisbon

May 18, 2025May 18, 2025 jamiegoode 1304 Views

Website: https://vinhodacasa.pt/home-2025-en/ A tour through Portugal in seven wines. This was a masterclass I did at Vinho da Casa in

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Canada Features Latest 

In Niagara: Catching up with Thomas Bachelder

May 15, 2025May 16, 2025 Treve Ring 2274 Views Chardonnay, Gamay, Niagara, pinot noir

Thomas Bachelder is one of Canada’s beacon winemakers, championing Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and in the last years Gamay, though a

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Chianti Classico deep dive (16) Principe Corsini’s Villa Le Corti

May 15, 2025May 15, 2025 jamiegoode 1235 Views Chianti Classico

Website: https://principecorsini.com/en/villa-le-corti/ We are in the northern and eastern part of Chianti Classico here, in San Casciano. San Casciano is

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Features Latest Regions South Africa 

Meerlust: visiting this important Stellenbosch winery, and tasting right back to the beginning

May 15, 2025May 27, 2025 jamiegoode 2177 Views Stellenbosch

Website: https://www.meerlust.co.za/ Jamie Goode visits Meerlust, one of South Africa’s leading wineries, and then catches up with the team in

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Isole e Olena and Cepparello: new releases from this important Chianti Classico estate

May 13, 2025May 13, 2025 jamiegoode 2445 Views Chianti Classico, Sangiovese

Back in 1956, just as sharecropping was ending, the De Marchi family of Piedmont bought two estates in San Donato,

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Book review: The Science of Fermentation
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Book review: The Science of Fermentation

November 2, 2025 jamiegoode

Website: https://www.dk.com/us/book/9798217126477-the-science-of-fermentation/ Robin Sherriff The Science of Fermentation: explore the fascinating alchemy of fermented food and drinkDorling Kindersley This is

Wine and travel as competitive sports
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Wine and travel as competitive sports

November 1, 2025November 1, 2025 jamiegoode
Book review: Izabela Kamińska Wild yeast – stories about wine
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Book review: Izabela Kamińska Wild yeast – stories about wine

October 30, 2025 jamiegoode
Cruse x Hirsch, tasting some Californian gems from this star partnership
California Features Latest 

Cruse x Hirsch, tasting some Californian gems from this star partnership

October 28, 2025October 29, 2025 jamiegoode

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About Us

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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