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Features Italy 

Giacomo Baraldo, a new star from southern Tuscany

March 27, 2024May 21, 2024 jamiegoode 7999 Views Toscana

Website: https://www.giacomobaraldo.it/ Giacomo fell in love with wine and went and gained experience around the world, including stints at Greystone

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Alsace Features Regions 

Alsace adventure (1) Domaine Weinbach

March 26, 2024May 21, 2024 jamiegoode 10384 Views

Website: Weinbach Weinbach is one of the great names in Alsace, and this was my second visit. This time it

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England Features 

The debut releases from Walgate & Co, some of England’s most interesting still wines

March 24, 2024May 21, 2024 jamiegoode 9712 Views

Website: https://walgate.eco/ This was a chance to taste the debut release from Ben Walgate’s new venture, post leaving Tillingham. ‘In

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Etna, Sicily: Torre Mora

March 23, 2024March 23, 2024 jamiegoode 4678 Views etna, Sicily

One of the estates owned by Piccini, Torre Mora has 13 hectares of vines at altitudes between 600 and 700

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Features Rhone 

Rhône discovery (1) Les Chancel, Ventoux

March 23, 2024June 18, 2024 jamiegoode 5034 Views Ventoux

Website: https://www.leschancel.com/ Pierre Chancel was working for Sanofi, a drug company, in his previous life. At one point he was

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Features Regions South Africa 

Restless River, one of South Africa’s most singular and interesting wine projects

March 21, 2024May 21, 2024 jamiegoode 12440 Views

Treve Ring and I visited Restless River for the second time in October 2022, on a sunny but cool and

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Features Italy 

Etna, Sicily: Palmento Constanza

March 19, 2024May 21, 2024 jamiegoode 4250 Views etna, Sicily

Website: https://www.palmentocostanzo.com/en/ I’m very excited by this producer, currently making some of the best wines on the island. Organic with

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Features Italy 

Etna, Sicily: Tenuta Boccarossa

March 19, 2024May 21, 2024 jamiegoode 5895 Views etna, Sicily

Website: http://www.tenutaboccarossa.it/ Michele Calabretta was working in the car industry, and it led him to Germany where he met his

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Features Portugal 

Arribas Wine Co: exciting low-intervention wines from Trás-os-Montes, Portugal

March 18, 2024May 21, 2024 jamiegoode 7118 Views

Website: https://arribaswine.com/ Ricardo Alves and Frederico Machado (pictured above) began the Arribas Wine Company in 2017. They are based in

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Video and gallery: Festival del Potatare, the Simonit & Sirch pruning festival 2024

March 16, 2024May 21, 2024 jamiegoode 6484 Views

I’m just back from the Festival del Potatare, the second edition of the pruning festival organized by industry leading pruning

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A mature Penfolds tasting with Yattarna, Bin 389, St Henri, Bin 707 and Grange
Australia Features Latest 

A mature Penfolds tasting with Yattarna, Bin 389, St Henri, Bin 707 and Grange

September 29, 2026 jamiegoode

Penfolds is one of Australia’s most important wine companies, famous for Grange (Bin 95), the red blend they have made

Argentina Reloaded! A tasting by Paz Levinson showing the cutting edge of Argentina’s wine offering
Argentina Features Latest Regions TOP STORIES 

Argentina Reloaded! A tasting by Paz Levinson showing the cutting edge of Argentina’s wine offering

September 28, 2026September 28, 2026 jamiegoode
Four lovely wines at Noble Rot Mayfair: Langham, Phelan Farms, Sclavos and Suertes del Marques
Features Food and wine Latest 

Four lovely wines at Noble Rot Mayfair: Langham, Phelan Farms, Sclavos and Suertes del Marques

September 27, 2026 jamiegoode
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Chile Features Latest Regions 

Viña González Bastías, Maule Valley, Chile: exciting naturally made wines from an amazing old vineyard

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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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