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Austria Features Latest 

Heinrich: beautiful naturally inclined wines from Austria’s Burgenland region

December 8, 2025December 8, 2025 jamiegoode 2170 Views Natural wine

Heinrich is one of Austria’s most interesting producers. Based in Burgenland, they successfully negociated a style change in 2014 and

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Features Latest Portugal Regions 

The impressive wines of Herdade do Rocim and its associated projects, among Portugal’s best

December 7, 2025December 7, 2025 jamiegoode 2973 Views Alentejo, Dao

Website: https://rocim.pt/en/ This was a tasting of some of the wines of Herdarde do Rocim and their associated wineries, presented

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Features Latest Slovenia 

Slovenia: Edi Simčič, one of the stars of Brda

December 6, 2025December 6, 2025 jamiegoode 4835 Views

The region is Goriška Brda, and I’m here to visit one of the top producers, Edi Simčič. This was my

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Features Latest Slovenia 

Slovenia: Bjana is an exciting sparkling wine project in Brda

December 5, 2025December 5, 2025 jamiegoode 1904 Views Sparkling wine

Website: https://bjana.si/ Based in Brda, Slovenia, on the border with Italy, Bjana is a very exciting sparkling wine project. It’s

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Features Food and wine Latest Portugal Profiles 

THE STORY OF MADEIRA 

December 3, 2025December 4, 2025 Lisse Garnett 5165 Views

Enthrallingly versatile, everlasting and bomb proof – Madeira is the perfect sup for our uncertain times says Lisse Garnett 400

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As the Michelin Guide turns to wine with its three-grape rating system, here are the big questions

December 3, 2025December 3, 2025 jamiegoode 4036 Views

From 2026 the Michelin Guide will continue its brand expansion by turning to rating wine producers. This will be done

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Features Latest Portugal 

Saravá, innovative low-intervention wines from Vinho Verde and Douro, Portugal

December 2, 2025December 2, 2025 jamiegoode 2266 Views Douro, Natural wine, Vinho Verde

Website: https://www.galactic.wine/ Miguel Viseu is the winemaker at low-intervention wine producer Aphros in Vinho Verde, but he also has his

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Wine marketing: don’t mistake choice for preference

November 30, 2025November 30, 2025 jamiegoode 2642 Views Business of wine

A frequent error made by marketeers is mistaking choice for preference. What do I mean by this? As a consumer,

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Features Germany Latest TOP STORIES 

At Staffelter Hof in the Mosel, Jan-Matthias Klein has taken a bet on resistant varieties, vitisforestry and natural wine, and it’s working out

November 28, 2025January 23, 2026 jamiegoode 4119 Views Agroforestry, Natural wine, Pet Nat

As part of the Porto Protocol Living Vineyards tour 2025, I visited Staffelter Hof, a winery looking to produce a

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Features Latest Portugal Regions 

Amphora wine day, celebrating wines made in clay, part 2

November 26, 2025November 26, 2025 jamiegoode 2690 Views Alentejo

Here I’m writing up all the Portuguese wines tried at the amphora wine day at Rocim, November 2025. Arvad, Algarve,

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Chile Features Latest Regions 

Viña González Bastías, Maule Valley, Chile: exciting naturally made wines from an amazing old vineyard

September 25, 2026 jamiegoode

Website: https://www.vinosgonzalezbastias.com/ Jose Luís Bastías and Daniela Lorenzo are custodians of a remarkable six-hectare vineyard in Chile’s Maule Valley planted

Sicus: distinctive low-intervention wines from Catalunya
Features Latest Spain 

Sicus: distinctive low-intervention wines from Catalunya

September 23, 2026 jamiegoode
Germany’s top Rieslings at the VDP tasting: Mittelrhein, Franken, Sachsen, Nahe and Rheinhessen
Features Germany Latest 

Germany’s top Rieslings at the VDP tasting: Mittelrhein, Franken, Sachsen, Nahe and Rheinhessen

September 23, 2026September 23, 2026 jamiegoode
Notes from a remarkable long lunch at Gaveto in Matosinhos, Portugal, with Niepoort, Transmission and friends, plus some amazing Champagnes
Champagne Features Latest Portugal Regions 

Notes from a remarkable long lunch at Gaveto in Matosinhos, Portugal, with Niepoort, Transmission and friends, plus some amazing Champagnes

September 16, 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.

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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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