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Features Latest Portugal 

Exploring Vinho Verde: Covela, who helped lead the region’s charge to more serious wine styles

June 5, 2026June 5, 2026 jamiegoode 647 Views Vinho Verde

Website: https://covela.pt/en/ I’m back at Covela, after a 10 year gap. And it’s nice to meet with Rui Cunha, who

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Bordeaux 2025 wines en primeur
Bordeaux Features Latest Regions 

A quick appraisal of the 2025 vintage in Bordeaux

June 3, 2026 jamiegoode 1604 Views

I didn’t get to do primeurs in Bordeaux this spring. In fact I never do primeurs in Bordeaux because it’s

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Features Latest Loire 

Jean Baptiste Hardy, making beautiful wines in Muscadet

June 3, 2026June 3, 2026 jamiegoode 674 Views

As well as doing several vintages overseas, Jean Baptiste Hardy spent some time working with Jean-Marc Roulot in Meursault. In

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Features Latest Portugal Regions 

Exploring Vinho Verde: visiting star producer Anselmo Mendes

June 2, 2026June 2, 2026 jamiegoode 1382 Views Vinho Verde

One of the most important people in the transformation of Vinho Verde from a region of gassy ephemeral wines into

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antonio madeira dao portugal
Features Latest Portugal 

Current releases from Dão legend Antonio Madeira

June 1, 2026June 1, 2026 jamiegoode 889 Views Dao

I’ve reported on Antonio Madeira and his wines before in detail. He’s one of the most important producers in the

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Bordeaux California Features Food and wine Latest Spain 

Restaurants: dinner at La Trompette, Chiswick, with three interesting wines

June 1, 2026 jamiegoode 730 Views Napa, Penedès, Restaurants

Website: https://www.latrompette.co.uk/ La Trompette is one of my favourite restaurants in London. Tucked away in Chiswick, it has an upmarket

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Austria Features Highlights TOP STORIES 

Pannobile – meeting this coalition of amazing Burgenland producers, who are making some of Austria’s most interesting wines

May 31, 2026 jamiegoode 1381 Views

The Pannobile group is now 30 years old. It was John Nittnaus who created the term Pannobile, from Pannonia, the

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Features Hungary Latest 

United States of Blaufränkisch – a deep dive into this amazing red grape variety (1) 25 examples from Hungary

May 30, 2026June 10, 2026 jamiegoode 2821 Views Blaufrankisch

Blaufränkisch is a grape variety on the rise. It has only come to prominence in recent years, for a range

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Features Latest Profiles Regions South Africa 

Vergelegen: the first release of the top wines under new winemaker Luke O’Cuinneagain

May 29, 2026May 29, 2026 jamiegoode 1039 Views Stellenbosch

I visited Vergelegen a while ago, seeing how this celebrated wine estate has emerged from a period of underperformance under

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Ian hongell winemaker at torbreck
Australia Features Latest Profiles 

Torbreck: a deep dive into this important Barossa winery, with winemaker Ian Hongell

May 28, 2026May 28, 2026 jamiegoode 1157 Views Barossa, shiraz

It was back in 1994 that Dave Powell began a winery that was to prove very important for the Barossa

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Excursions off the Riesling trail: what else can the Finger Lakes do?
Features Latest New York State 

Excursions off the Riesling trail: what else can the Finger Lakes do?

July 3, 2026 jamiegoode

This was a seminar at the FLXcursion event that I’ve just come back from. The goal was to explore the

Weingut Frank, one of the stars of Austria’s Weinviertel region
Austria Features Latest 

Weingut Frank, one of the stars of Austria’s Weinviertel region

July 2, 2026 jamiegoode
The wines of Weingut Kurz, Weinviertel, Austria
Austria Features Latest 

The wines of Weingut Kurz, Weinviertel, Austria

July 2, 2026July 2, 2026 jamiegoode
A trio of impressive Pet Nats from UK winery Westwell
England Features Latest 

A trio of impressive Pet Nats from UK winery Westwell

July 2, 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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