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Bulgaria Features Latest 

Exploring Bulgarian Wine (8) Villa Melnik

April 14, 2025 jamiegoode 1416 Views

Villa Melnik is a family-owned winery in Harsovo, in southwest Bulgaria, in the Struma River Valley of the Thracian Valley.

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Bulgaria Features Latest 

Exploring Bulgarian Wine (7) Katarzyna Wine

April 14, 2025May 5, 2025 jamiegoode 2280 Views

I tried the wines of Katarzyna at their wine shop and bar in Sofia. The winery itself is located in

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Features Italy Latest 

The wines of Gian Luca Colombo, Piemonte, Italy

April 14, 2025 jamiegoode 1596 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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Features Latest Poland Regions 

The wines of Kamil Barczentewicz, a leading light from Poland

April 10, 2025 jamiegoode 2402 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 1813 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 1356 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 1591 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 1270 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 1689 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 1309 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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Book review: The Science of Fermentation
Features Latest 

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
Features Latest 

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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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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