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In Niagara (11) Dobbin, an exciting new winery

July 29, 2024July 29, 2024 jamiegoode 4944 Views Niagara

Website: https://dobbinestate.com/ Dobbin is an exciting new winery on the Twenty Mile Bench in Canada’s Niagara region, and it’s based

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Grape vines in the wild: what they looked like before domestication

July 28, 2024July 21, 2026 jamiegoode 10990 Views

I’m fascinated by wild vines. We are so used to seeing vines growing neatly in rows in vineyards that sometimes

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Burgundy Features Latest 

Discovering the Mâconnais (5) Domaine Fichet

July 27, 2024August 11, 2025 jamiegoode 4583 Views Maconnais

Website: www.domainefichet.fr Domaine Fichet is one of the most impressive of the Mâconnais domaines I’ve visited. They are based in

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Discovering the Mâconnais (4) Cave d’Azé

July 27, 2024August 11, 2025 jamiegoode 4276 Views Maconnais

Website: www.caveaze.com Cave D’Azé is another of the cooperative wineries in the Mâconnais. They have 60 partner growers farming 280

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Russian River Valley, Sonoma, California (2) Beyond Pinot Noir

July 20, 2024November 4, 2024 jamiegoode 4088 Views Russian River Valley

The Russian River Valley’s fame is largely due to its excellence with Pinot Noir, but there is more to this

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Russian River Valley, Sonoma, California (1): exploring the neighbourhoods through the lens of Pinot Noir

July 20, 2024November 4, 2024 jamiegoode 11561 Views pinot noir, Russian River Valley, Sonoma

Back in 2003 the Russian River Pinot Forum was first established. The goal was to educate wine buyers about what

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Discovering the Mâconnais (3) Château de la Greffière

July 19, 2024August 11, 2025 jamiegoode 6212 Views Maconnais

Website: https://chateaudelagreffiere.com/en/ Greffière is an exciting producer in the Mâconnais, based in La Roche Vineuse, and they also have a

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Discovering the Mâconnais (2) Terres Secrètes

July 19, 2024August 11, 2025 jamiegoode 4672 Views Maconnais

Website: https://terres-secretes.com/en/ The wine world needs good, affordable wine, and when cooperatives are well run, they can help provide it.

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Burgundy Features Latest 

The wines of Dugat Py, a leading domaine in Gevrey-Chambertin, Bourgogne

July 17, 2024July 10, 2026 jamiegoode 7646 Views

Website: http://www.dugat-py.com Things are changing in Burgundy (or Bourgogne, as the region now likes to be called). A new generation

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Alsace adventure (5) heading north to see Mochel, Pfister and Loew

July 15, 2024July 15, 2024 jamiegoode 3730 Views

On a rainy October day in Alsace, Lars Daniels and I headed up to meet three producers working in the

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Canada’s Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys (14) Nostalgia
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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
Canada’s Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys (12) Haywire and Garnet Valley Ranch
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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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