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Burgundy Features Latest 

Discovering the Mâconnais (2) Terres Secrètes

July 19, 2024August 11, 2025 jamiegoode 3055 Views Maconnais

Website: https://terres-secretes.com/en/ The wine world needs good, affordable wine, and when cooperatives are well run, they can help provide it.

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Burgundy Features Latest 

The wines of Dugat Py, a leading domaine in Gevrey-Chambertin, Bourgogne

July 17, 2024 jamiegoode 4248 Views

Website: http://www.dugat-py.com Things are changing in Burgundy (or Bourgogne, as the region now likes to be called). A new generation

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Alsace Features Latest 

Alsace adventure (5) heading north to see Mochel, Pfister and Loew

July 15, 2024July 15, 2024 jamiegoode 2480 Views

On a rainy October day in Alsace, Lars Daniels and I headed up to meet three producers working in the

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Alsace adventure (4) the wines of domaine Justin Boxler

July 14, 2024July 14, 2024 jamiegoode 3765 Views

Website: www.vinsboxler.fr We visited Domaine Justin Boxler with Charlotte Boxler (pictured above), who now runs the domaine with her cousin

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Burgundy Features Latest 

Discovering the Mâconnais (1) the southern outpost of Bourgogne

July 13, 2024August 11, 2025 jamiegoode 3685 Views Maconnais

I’ve spent the last few days in the Mâconnais, the southern outpost of Bourgogne (or Burgundy as it is known

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Canada Features Latest 

In Niagara (10) York Vineyards, an exciting new sparkling wine specialist

July 12, 2024July 12, 2024 jamiegoode 3882 Views Sparkling wine

It’s often said that if you want to make traditional-method sparkling wine well, you have to specialise in it. And

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Features Latest Rhone 

Exploring Cairanne (2) tasting with the youngsters – Serre-Blanc, Rabasse Charavin, Alary, Grands Serres and Berthet-Rayne

July 11, 2024July 12, 2024 jamiegoode 3570 Views

Tasting with the young vignerons of Cairanne Cairanne is a dynamic appellation and there are quite a few young winegrowers

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Features Latest Rhone 

Exploring Cairanne (5) Boutinot

July 11, 2024July 11, 2024 jamiegoode 2862 Views Cairanne

Boutinot are a major UK wine importer and wholesaler, but they also own vineyards in South Africa, England and France.

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Features Latest Rhone 

Exploring Cairanne (6) Domaine Brusset

July 11, 2024July 12, 2024 jamiegoode 2384 Views Cairanne

Website: https://www.domainebrusset.fr/en/ This domaine dates back to 1947, and was based on a small 3 hectare vineyard in Cairanne. It

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Features Latest Rhone 

Exploring Cairanne (3) Domaine Boisson, with Bruno Boisson and a terroir tour

July 11, 2024July 12, 2024 jamiegoode 2412 Views

I took a tour of some of the Cairanne terroirs with Bruno Boisson. He explained that Cairanne has freshness 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
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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