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Features Italy Latest 

The wines of Gian Luca Colombo, Piemonte, Italy

April 14, 2025 jamiegoode 1381 Views Nebbiolo, Piemonte

Website: https://gianlucacolombovini.it/en/ Gian Luca Colombo is well known as a leading consultant in Piemonte, but he also has his own

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The wines of Kamil Barczentewicz, a leading light from Poland

April 10, 2025 jamiegoode 2067 Views

Kamil Barczentweicz is making some stunning wines from central southeast Poland. He’s planted 11.5 hectares in stages, beginning in 2017,

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Features Latest New Zealand 

New Zealand Pinot Gris – a mini-study with Rockburn, Isabel, Ata Rangi and Greywacke

April 7, 2025April 7, 2025 jamiegoode 1585 Views pinot gris

These are four interesting, and contrasting examples of Kiwi Pinot Gris. It’s one of those grapes that professionals don’t seem

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Bulgaria Features Latest 

Exploring Bulgarian Wine (6) Magura

April 6, 2025May 5, 2025 jamiegoode 1114 Views

Magura is a large winery with a capacity to make 2 million litres of wine, established in 1967. It changed

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Features Latest Portugal 

The wines of Quinta dos Currais, Beira Interior, Portugal

April 5, 2025April 5, 2025 jamiegoode 1409 Views

The Beira Interior is a lesser-known but really interesting wine region nestled on the eastern side of Portugal, just below

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Features Latest New Zealand 

Nautilus, a deep dive into this Marlborough producer with winemaker Clive Jones

April 5, 2025 jamiegoode 1109 Views Marlborough

A few years back I spent a lot of time in Marlborough, New Zealand’s largest wine region. Most people are

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Features Latest Regions Rhone 

La Nouvelle Garde is an organization that brings together the next generation of Crozes-Hermitage, and they threw a party

April 3, 2025April 4, 2025 jamiegoode 1520 Views crozes-hermitage

In 2023 a new association emerged in the northern Rhône, called La Nouvelle Garde de Crozes-Hermitage. This is the biggest

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Burgundy Features Latest 

Discovering the Mâconnais (9) Domaine Joseph Lafarge

April 3, 2025August 11, 2025 jamiegoode 1189 Views Maconnais

Website: https://www.josephlafarge.com/en Domaine Joseph Lafarge is a winery and hospitality operation in the Mâconnais. I visited with Anthony, who’s 10th

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A rosé mini study: Ksara, Simpsons, Lalomba, Leoube

April 3, 2025April 3, 2025 jamiegoode 774 Views Rose

Tried these four rosés together. Four countries, all quite high-end, all nicely packaged. Two cork sealed, two sealed with Vino-Lok.

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Features Latest Rhone 

Cairanne, another rising star cru in the Rhône

April 1, 2025 jamiegoode 1816 Views Cairanne

There’s been a lot of interest in the Rhône cru of Cairanne recently. It’s one of the crus capable of

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Tablas Creek and Château Beaucastel: a Wine Society tasting telling the story of how a leading Rhône domaine fell in love with California
California Features Latest Rhone 

Tablas Creek and Château Beaucastel: a Wine Society tasting telling the story of how a leading Rhône domaine fell in love with California

October 2, 2025October 2, 2025 jamiegoode

Jason Haas of Tablas Creek and Andrew Bayley (GM of Beaucastel’s UK operation) presented this really interesting tasting, telling the

Tasting some wines from Bolivia: Jardín Oculto and Yokich
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Tasting some wines from Bolivia: Jardín Oculto and Yokich

September 28, 2025 jamiegoode
Champagne Salon and Delamotte: the 2015 Salon release, and a look at the current Delamotte range
Champagne Features Latest Regions TOP STORIES 

Champagne Salon and Delamotte: the 2015 Salon release, and a look at the current Delamotte range

September 26, 2025September 27, 2025 jamiegoode
Icelandic pharma-titan, Robert Wessman of Maison Wessman in Bergerac and his Wine Director, Lise Sadirac, fight for a new Issigeac micro-appellation with musical backing from Nora Jones 
Features France France Latest 

Icelandic pharma-titan, Robert Wessman of Maison Wessman in Bergerac and his Wine Director, Lise Sadirac, fight for a new Issigeac micro-appellation with musical backing from Nora Jones 

September 25, 2025September 25, 2025 Lisse Garnett

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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.

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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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