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Features Rhone 

Crozes-Hermitage (4) Maison and Domaine Les Alexandrins

January 27, 2025September 28, 2025 jamiegoode 4187 Views crozes-hermitage, Northern Rhone

This is a domaine whose name has changed a bit. Domaine Alexandrins was first founded by Alexandre Caso and Guillaume

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Features Rhone 

Crozes-Hermitage (7) Yann Chave

January 27, 2025September 28, 2025 jamiegoode 4405 Views crozes-hermitage, Northern Rhone

I met Daphné Chave for lunch at 1906, and we were later joined by her father, Yann Chave. Daphné tells

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Features Rhone 

Crozes-Hermitage (6) Delas Frères

January 27, 2025September 28, 2025 jamiegoode 3153 Views crozes-hermitage, Northern Rhone

Website: https://www.delas.com/en/ Marco Beckman, cellar master, gave us a tour of the beautiful new winery, and then we tasted with

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Features Rhone 

Crozes-Hermitage (5) Cave de Tain

January 27, 2025September 28, 2025 jamiegoode 3594 Views crozes-hermitage, Northern Rhone

Cave de Tain is one of the leading players in the northern Rhône. I remember visiting back in 1998 as

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Features Regions Rhone 

Crozes-Hermitage and its new generation: exploring the largest of the appellations in the northern Rhône

January 27, 2025September 28, 2025 jamiegoode 4511 Views Northern Rhone, syrah

Early on in my journey into wine I fell in love with Syrah from the northern Rhône. The problem was

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Australia Features Regions 

Australia Day Lunch 2025: celebrating Australian wine with some fine older bottles

January 27, 2025December 20, 2025 jamiegoode 5022 Views

As is the tradition (well, for the last four years) a group of jolly wine folk gathered to celebrate Australia

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Features Portugal TOP STORIES 

The remarkable wines of Barbeito, the leading producer from Madeira

January 24, 2025September 28, 2025 jamiegoode 5509 Views Madeira

Ricardo Freitas is a third generation Madeira producer, and his family firm Barbeito is widely regarded as the top producer

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Features South Africa TOP STORIES 

Vergelegen rebooted: visiting this important South African winery and meeting the man tasked with fulfilling the potential of an amazing set of vineyards

January 21, 2025September 28, 2025 jamiegoode 6057 Views

Website: https://vergelegen.co.za/ Vergelegen is one of the great wine projects of South Africa, and it has now been rebooted after

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Features Poland 

Polish wine: a study

January 20, 2025May 10, 2026 jamiegoode 8811 Views

This Polish wine seminar was presented by Adam Michocki at the Cool Climate Wine Summit in Copenhagen, January 2025. Adam

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Features 

Published today: my UK Sparkling Wine Guide 2025

January 19, 2025September 28, 2025 jamiegoode 4561 Views Sparkling wine

Normally things move slowly in the traditional world of wine. But around the fringes, things can move fast, and that’s

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Island Wines Summit: Sea Wines Without Borders, a brilliant tasting with Josep Roca
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Island Wines Summit: Sea Wines Without Borders, a brilliant tasting with Josep Roca

June 21, 2026 jamiegoode

I’m at the Island Wines Summit in Tenerife. The first tasting, with Josep Roca, of El Cellar de Can Roca,

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Features Latest Portugal 

New releases from new-wave Vinho Verde star Constantino Ramos

June 19, 2026June 19, 2026 jamiegoode
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Canada Features Latest Profiles 

Canada’s Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys (9) Kismet Estate Winery

June 19, 2026June 19, 2026 jamiegoode
Canada’s Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys (8) Burrowing Owl
Canada Features Latest Regions 

Canada’s Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys (8) Burrowing Owl

June 17, 2026June 17, 2026 jamiegoode

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About Us

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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