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Features Wine Science 

Alcohol, health, the social licence of drinking and neo-prohibitionism – an important topic for the wine trade to engage with

November 12, 2024April 25, 2025 jamiegoode 5778 Views

How much can you drink without damaging your health? Is there a safe level of drinking? Are government guidelines on

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Tasting interesting wines in Stockholm, generating word cloud tasting notes with an expert group

November 8, 2024April 25, 2025 jamiegoode 3038 Views

I recently did a seminar in for wine folk in Stockholm – at Vinkällan, the Scanadnavian Wine Academy – which

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Bordeaux 2022: tasting the wines from this much-hyped vintage now they are in bottle

November 7, 2024November 7, 2024 jamiegoode 17168 Views

Each year I look forward to tasting the most recently bottled vintage of Bordeaux. These wines will have been shown

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Alsace Features Regions 

Soil Therapy: a new star making distinctive terroir-focused wines from Alsace

November 5, 2024April 25, 2025 jamiegoode 5518 Views

Website: https://www.facebook.com/soiltherapywine/ Thomas Larmoyer was supposed to be in town to present his wines but his passport had expired. But

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Features Food and wine 

Who would want to be a restaurant reviewer? Why it is a horrible gig

November 3, 2024April 25, 2025 jamiegoode 3386 Views Restaurants

Some people think that being a restaurant reviewer for a well recognized publication must be a great job. You get

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California Features 

In the Russian River Valley, Sonoma, California (10) Kanzler Vineyards

October 31, 2024April 25, 2025 jamiegoode 2913 Views Russian River Valley, Sonoma

Website: https://kanzlervineyards.com/ Kanzler is a relatively new boutique winery in the Sebastopol Hills of the Russian River Valley, run by

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Champagne Features TOP STORIES 

Bowled over by the single origin 2015 wines from Champagne Philipponnat

October 29, 2024April 25, 2025 jamiegoode 3237 Views

Website: https://www.philipponnat.com/ Over lunch at the excellent Clove Club, I caught up with Charles Philipponnat and a small band of

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Features Portugal 

The wines of Sidónio de Sousa, Bairrada

October 28, 2024April 25, 2025 jamiegoode 3711 Views Baga, Bairrada

Bairrada is one of Portugal’s most interesting wine regions, specialising in reds from Baga, but also some really good sparkling

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Features Moldova 

The wines of Te Wā, Moldova

October 28, 2024April 25, 2025 jamiegoode 2514 Views

Website: https://tewawines.co/ Moldova meets New Zealand! I first came across the wines of Te Wā when I tasted through a

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California Features TOP STORIES 

In Russian River Valley, Sonoma, California (9) Joseph Swan with Rod Berglund

October 23, 2024April 25, 2025 jamiegoode 3974 Views Russian River Valley, Sonoma

Website: https://www.swanwinery.com/ Rod Berglund is one of the most respected winemakers in the Russian River Valley, and for the last

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Canada’s Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys (14) Nostalgia

September 5, 2026September 5, 2026 jamiegoode

Website: https://nostalgiawines.ca/ Gina Fernandes Harfman is the owner and winemaker at Nostalgia Wines, based in Black Sage Bench in Canada’s

Canada’s Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys (13) Pamplemousse Jus
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Canada’s Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys (13) Pamplemousse Jus

August 31, 2026 jamiegoode
Restaurants: Singburi, amazing Thai food in Shoreditch, London, and a short but great wine list
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Restaurants: Singburi, amazing Thai food in Shoreditch, London, and a short but great wine list

August 29, 2026August 29, 2026 jamiegoode
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Canada’s Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys (12) Haywire and Garnet Valley Ranch

August 27, 2026August 27, 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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