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Australia Features Latest 

New releases by Adelaide Hills star BK Wines, some of Australia’s most interesting low intervention wines

July 24, 2025July 24, 2025 jamiegoode 1243 Views Adelaide Hills, Chardonnay, Gamay, pinot noir

Website: https://bkwines.com.au/ I caught up with Brendon Keys at East End Cellars in Adelaide to taste through some of his

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Features Latest Portugal 

Wine & Soul: Pintas and Manoella from Portugal’s Douro (updated with new notes, July 2025)

July 24, 2025July 25, 2025 jamiegoode 2203 Views Douro

Website: https://wineandsoul.com/ Jorge Borges and Sandra Tavares have built something special with Wine & Soul. I first bumped into them

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Features Wine Science 

Controlling redox potential during fermentation: groundbreaking work from Roger Boulton and colleagues that deserves some attention

July 22, 2025July 22, 2025 jamiegoode 2499 Views

Roger Boulton, emeritus professor from University of California Davis and one of the great authorities on wine chemistry, gave a

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Features Italy Latest 

The wines of Masiero, a biodynamic producer in Italy’s Veneto

July 21, 2025July 21, 2025 jamiegoode 842 Views veneto

Website: https://www.verdugo.it/en/homepage-2/ Franco and Francesca Masiero founded this winery back in 1996, and they farm biodynamically. Their daughter Giulia Masiero

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Features Latest Portugal 

Justino’s Projects, Madeira, Portugal

July 21, 2025July 21, 2025 jamiegoode 601 Views Madeira

This was a really interesting chance to try some special Project wines from Madeira producer Justino’s. The wines were tasted

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England Features Latest 

English wine: there’s a new cool kid on the block – Sandridge Barton

July 18, 2025July 18, 2025 jamiegoode 1288 Views

Sandridge Barton is the new identity of leading Devon winery Sharpham who are making some innovative wines Website: https://sandridgebarton.com/ I

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Features Food and wine 

Restaurants: The Palomar, Soho, London

July 17, 2025 jamiegoode 1354 Views Restaurants

The Palomar combines excellent food with a well chosen, interesting wine list. The Palomar is part of the Studio Paskin

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Features Latest Slovenia 

Slovenia: visiting biodynamic star Korenika & Moškon

July 17, 2025July 17, 2025 jamiegoode 876 Views

Website: https://korenikamoskon.eu/ The latest part of my Slovenian exploration saw me head to the Adriatic cost, to a corner of

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A spotlight on the Dão region, currently making some of Portugal’s most interesting wines

July 15, 2025 jamiegoode 1098 Views

Portugal is a diverse wine country, and of late it has been making increasingly accomplished wines. In the north we

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Australia Features Latest TOP STORIES 

Australian Chardonnay: a deep dive into this exciting category

July 11, 2025July 11, 2025 jamiegoode 2384 Views Chardonnay

We are so familiar with Chardonnay as an important part of Australia’s wine offering that it’s surprising to learn that

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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
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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

Jason Haas of Tablas Creek and Andrew Bayley (GM of Beaucastel’s UK operation) presented this really interesting tasting, telling the

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
Icelandic pharma-titan, Robert Wessman of Maison Wessman in Bergerac and his Wine Director, Lise Sadirac, fight for a new Issigeac micro-appellation with musical backing from Nora Jones 
Features France France Latest 

Icelandic pharma-titan, Robert Wessman of Maison Wessman in Bergerac and his Wine Director, Lise Sadirac, fight for a new Issigeac micro-appellation with musical backing from Nora Jones 

September 25, 2025September 25, 2025 Lisse Garnett

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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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