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Features Spain 

The wines of Numanthia, from Spain’s Toro wine region: how they’ve tried to shift from the Parker-style to something more expressive of place

March 11, 2025September 29, 2025 jamiegoode 1867 Views Toro

Website: https://www.numanthia.com/en-ww Numanthia hit gold with the release of their 2004 Termanthia, which was among a group of five wines

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England Features 

Whitewolfe Estates: an exciting new Chardonnay-based project in Kent, England

March 11, 2025September 29, 2025 jamiegoode 1337 Views Chardonnay

Website: https://whitewolfe-estates.co.uk/ Whitewolfe Estates is a still Chardonnay project founded in 2019 by Clare Whitehead and Luke Wolfe, and the

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Canada Features 

The wines of 40 Knots, Vancouver Island, Canada

March 10, 2025September 29, 2025 jamiegoode 1583 Views Vancouver Island

Website: https://www.40knotswinery.com Vancouver Island is one of Canada’s lesser known wine regions, but it is gaining traction. It hit the

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Bordeaux Features 

Château Pavie deep dive, with Jane Anson and João Pires

March 9, 2025September 29, 2025 jamiegoode 2149 Views

As part of the Wynn Signature Chinese wine awards 2025 there was a series of seminars, and this was was

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China Features 

Waking the Sleeping Grape: the birth of the next wine superpower?

March 6, 2025September 29, 2025 jamiegoode 2185 Views

Straight from Macau, where I just spent five days judging at the Wynn Signature Chinese Wine Awards 2025, I caught

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China Features 

Marselan is turning out to become China’s key grape variety: a seminar with Marselan expert and Chinese resident Julien Boulard

March 5, 2025September 29, 2025 jamiegoode 1535 Views Marselan

Julien Boulard (pictured above) presented this session on Marselan. He’s a master of wine based in China, and he did

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China Features 

Ningxia and Xinjiang, China’s two main wine regions, a seminar with Xing Wei

March 3, 2025September 29, 2025 jamiegoode 2098 Views

As part of the 2025 Edition of the Wynn Signature Chinese Wine Awards the judges have some education in the

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Features Regions South Africa TOP STORIES 

SOUTH AFRICA LAGS BEHIND EUROPE WHEN IT COMES TO ORGANIC VITICULTURE – 12 PRODUCERS UNITE TO SEEK CHANGE

March 2, 2025September 29, 2025 Lisse Garnett 5920 Views organic

Organic wine movement spearheaded by Radford Dale in South Africa

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Books Features Food and wine 

Wine and Asian food: a masterclass with Richard Hemming of 67 Pall Mall

March 2, 2025September 29, 2025 jamiegoode 1687 Views

Jamie Goode attends a seminar in Macao where Richard Hemming presents his book looking at matching wine with Asian food,

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Burgundy Features 

Meet Raphaëlle Guyot, who is recovering lost terroirs in interesting parts of Bourgogne

March 1, 2025September 29, 2025 jamiegoode 1733 Views Natural wine

UK agent: Newcomer Wines Raphaëlle Guyot studied winegrowing and winemaking at Beaune, graduating in 2015. This was followed up with

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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
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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

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.

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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