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Features Portugal 

Quinta de Baixo, where Niepoort are making increasingly compelling wines in Bairrada, Portugal

July 31, 2023March 5, 2024 jamiegoode 4321 Views Baga, Bairrada

Dirk Niepoort has long been interested in the terroirs of Bairrada. He thinks that the combination of the chalky clay

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Beaujolais Features Wine Science 

Beaujolais adventures (4) Château de Javernand, Chiroubles

July 28, 2023January 16, 2024 jamiegoode 4970 Views

Pierre Prost (pictured above) is an articulate advocate of agroecology, something that he’s implementing in the vineyards of Château de

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Bordeaux Features Regions 

Château Haut-Bailly: one of the star properties of Bordeaux

July 25, 2023January 16, 2024 jamiegoode 6953 Views

Website: https://www.haut-bailly.com/en/home.html Haut-Bailly is consistently one of my favourite Bordeaux Châteaux, and so it was nice to taste through some

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Features South Africa TOP STORIES 

50 years of Kanonkop, one of South Africa’s leading wineries

July 24, 2023July 24, 2023 jamiegoode 9689 Views

Johann Krige (proprietor) was in town with Abrie Beeslaar (winemaker) in a tasting that celebrated 50 years of Kanonkop, one

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Burgundy Features 

Exploring Bourgogne (1) Domaine Verret, Saint-Bris

July 22, 2023January 16, 2024 jamiegoode 4829 Views

Domaine Verret14 route de Champs – 89530 Saint-Bris-Le-VineuxTel. +33 (0)3 86 53 31 81www.domaineverret.com The Verret family have been winegrowers

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Australia Features 

Penfolds Collection 2023, including the new 2019 Grange

July 19, 2023January 16, 2024 jamiegoode 5407 Views

Peter Gago was in London to introduce the 2023 Penfolds Collection. This iconic Australian producer has been busy adding wines

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Features Spain 

Cava discovery (4) Vilarnau

July 17, 2023January 16, 2024 jamiegoode 4589 Views cava

Website: https://www.vilarnau.es/en Vilarnau is a medium-sized Cava house owned by González Byass since 1982. In the 1980s they wanted to

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Beaujolais Features 

Beaujolais adventures (3) Domaine Les Garçons, an exciting newcomer

July 16, 2023January 16, 2024 jamiegoode 5231 Views

This is a very exciting new project in Beaujolais. First vintage of this domaine was 2020, and it is run

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Features Spain Videos 

Video: In Rioja, visiting 10 wineries with World’s Best Vineyards

July 16, 2023January 16, 2024 jamiegoode 3426 Views Rioja

In July 2023 Jamie Goode joined a trip with World’s Best Vineyards competition to Rioja, visiting 10 leading wineries in

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England Features 

New Hall Wine Estate: 2021 releases from this Crouch Valley (Essex, England) winery

July 15, 2023January 16, 2024 jamiegoode 4202 Views

Website: www.newhallwines.com One of England’s oldest commercial vineyards, planted in 1969 by Bill and Sheila Greenwood. That year they began

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Bonhams is auctioning off the cellar of Locanda Locatelli, and a few of us get to try some of the gems over lunch
Features Italy Latest 

Bonhams is auctioning off the cellar of Locanda Locatelli, and a few of us get to try some of the gems over lunch

October 6, 2025October 6, 2025 jamiegoode

Back in January 2025 well known Italian chef Giorgio Locatelli closed the doors on his London restaurant Locanda Locatelli rather

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

October 5, 2025October 6, 2025 jamiegoode
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
Tasting some wines from Bolivia: Jardín Oculto and Yokich
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Tasting some wines from Bolivia: Jardín Oculto and Yokich

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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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