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Crozes-Hermitage (2) M Chapoutier

January 27, 2025September 28, 2025 jamiegoode 3301 Views crozes-hermitage, Northern Rhone

Chapoutier are one of the major producers in the northern Rhône, and they have 60 hectares in the Crozes-Hermitage appellation,

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Features Rhone 

Crozes-Hermitage (3) Paul Jaboulet-Aîné

January 27, 2025September 28, 2025 jamiegoode 2839 Views crozes-hermitage, Northern Rhone

Paul Jaboulet Aîné is one of the famous names in the northern Rhône. Owners of the famous chapel on the

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Crozes-Hermitage (4) Maison and Domaine Les Alexandrins

January 27, 2025September 28, 2025 jamiegoode 4801 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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Crozes-Hermitage (7) Yann Chave

January 27, 2025September 28, 2025 jamiegoode 4668 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 3494 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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Crozes-Hermitage (5) Cave de Tain

January 27, 2025September 28, 2025 jamiegoode 3958 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 5016 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 Day Lunch 2025: celebrating Australian wine with some fine older bottles

January 27, 2025December 20, 2025 jamiegoode 5481 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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The remarkable wines of Barbeito, the leading producer from Madeira

January 24, 2025September 28, 2025 jamiegoode 5862 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 6211 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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Biofiltro: cleaning up winery waste water with worm power, creating high-quality compost at the same time
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Biofiltro: cleaning up winery waste water with worm power, creating high-quality compost at the same time

July 27, 2026July 27, 2026 jamiegoode

Website: https://biofiltro.be/ Biofiltro is an innovative way of dealing with winery waste water. And the bonus is that because it

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Revisiting the wines of Doran Vineyards, Voor Paardeberg, South Africa

July 26, 2026 jamiegoode
Mclaren vale by Fabiano wines
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Tenuta Minchella’s ‘By Fabiano’ wines: Italian-inspiration hits the McLaren Vale, Australia

July 24, 2026July 24, 2026 jamiegoode
A vertical of Vega Sicilia: taking a deep dive into Spain’s most celebrated wine producer
Features Latest Profiles Spain TOP STORIES 

A vertical of Vega Sicilia: taking a deep dive into Spain’s most celebrated wine producer

July 24, 2026July 24, 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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