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Australia Day Tasting 2024: some amazing pre-2020 Aussie wines

January 31, 2024 jamiegoode 4687 Views

For the third year in a row a group of Aussie-wine-loving folk have met on Australia day to taste great

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Burgundy Features Latest 

Exploring Bourgogne (5) Domaine Fabien Coche, Meursault

January 30, 2024January 30, 2024 jamiegoode 4839 Views

Domaine Fabien Coche5 rue de Mazeray – 21190 MeursaultTel. +33 (0)3 80 21 28 41https://fabiencoche.com/ Fabien Coche is based in

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The Petit-Boxler family and their new Champagne-Alsace venture: Domaine La Rogerie

January 29, 2024January 29, 2024 jamiegoode 6489 Views

This is a remarkable project from a young couple who span two wine regions. The Petit-Boxler family brings together François

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Exploring Japanese Wine (7) visiting Kawachi Wine Company, Osaka

January 26, 2024 jamiegoode 4552 Views

Kawachi Wine Company is based in Habikino City, on the border of Osaka and Nara prefectures. The vineyard grows grapes

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Bourgogne (Burgundy) 2022: a surprising and beautiful vintage

January 25, 2024 jamiegoode 11022 Views Chardonnay, pinot noir

Each year in January, the UK wine trade has a Bourgogne week. Except, we still call it Burgundy week. The

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The wines of Cayuse revisited: stunning wines from Walla Walla

January 24, 2024January 24, 2024 jamiegoode 2995 Views

I caught up with Christoph Baron of Cayuse at the 2023 TexSom conference to taste through some of his wines.

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Canada Features Latest 

In Niagara, Canada (12) Southbrook Vineyards

January 23, 2024January 23, 2024 jamiegoode 2503 Views Niagara

Website: https://www.southbrook.com/ The Redelmeier family have been farmers in Ontario since the 1940s. Current proprietor Bill Redelmeier proved to be

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Austria Features Latest TOP STORIES 

The remarkable wines of Werlitsch, Styria, Austria

January 22, 2024 jamiegoode 5513 Views Natural wine

Website: http://www.werlitsch.com/ Ewald and Brigitte Tscheppe (above) are the couple behind one of Austria’s most interesting wine projects: the Werlitsch

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Why should we care about the age of the vine that made our wine?

January 21, 2024January 23, 2024 Lisse Garnett 7614 Views Campania, Old vines

Man’s history with the vine predates the written word. Old vines map man’s passage to the new world and our

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Beaujolais adventures (7) Clos du Mez, Fleurie

January 20, 2024 jamiegoode 3346 Views Gamay

Website: https://www.closdemez.com/ Marie-Élodie Zighera-Confuron (hence MEZ, with Confuron her added-on married name) is on a mission to make great, ageworthy

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A quick guide to New Zealand wine
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A quick guide to New Zealand wine

October 5, 2025October 5, 2025 jamiegoode

New Zealand is a relative newcomer in the roll call of significant wine-producing countries. It wasn’t until the mid-1980s that

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
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

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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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