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Features Latest Portugal 

Mouchão: lovely wines from this traditional Alentejo winery

August 1, 2025August 1, 2025 jamiegoode 851 Views Alentejo

Website: https://mouchao.pt/en/ One of the most highly regarded Alentejo wineries, Mouchão has always been a bit different to its peers.

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Books: The New California by Elaine Chukan Brown

July 31, 2025 jamiegoode 1254 Views Books

Ever since I heard that Elaine Chukan Brown was writing a book on Californian Wine, I was waiting to see

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Mini-Chardonnay study, with a sea bass lunch: Meursault, West Auckland, Hawke’s Bay, Eden Valley

July 30, 2025 jamiegoode 758 Views Chardonnay

There are so many places making good Chardonnay now, and quite a few regions are achieving greatness with this variety

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Chile Features Highlights Latest 

MAULE: SMALL-SCALE ETHICAL PRODUCERS KEEP RURAL COMMUNITIES ALIVE WHILST MAKING SOME OF THE MOST EXCITING WINES IN LATIN AMERICA 

July 29, 2025October 24, 2025 Lisse Garnett 5364 Views Organic Chile

Time to drink up, says Lisse Garnett.. The UK drinks more Chilean wine than anyone else. Market contractions challenge this

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What the cool kids drink! A dinner at Noble Rot with friends

July 29, 2025July 29, 2025 jamiegoode 1333 Views

This was a gathering of 10 friends at Noble Rot, convened by Emily Harman. We all brought a couple of

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Features Latest New Zealand Wine Science 

Prospects for disease-resistant varieties in Marlborough and elsewhere: will we soon see Cloudy Bay Sauvignon made from a PIWI?

July 28, 2025August 27, 2025 jamiegoode 3484 Views

Jim White from Cloudy Bay presented at the 2025 Australian Wine Industry Technical Conference on the topic of disease-resistant grape

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Champagne Features France Latest Wine Science 

French Bloom, a high-end alcohol-free sparkling wine that’s the most convincing product in this space yet

July 28, 2025July 28, 2025 jamiegoode 4426 Views

Website: https://uk.frenchbloom.com/ Non-alcoholic wine is currently a topic of intense interest in the wine industry. Many think that drinking habits

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Features Profiles Regions Spain 

The wines of Javi Revert, Valencia – a star of the ‘new Spain’ (updated with new notes July 2025)

July 28, 2025October 24, 2025 jamiegoode 9113 Views Valencia

Valencia is a region in eastern Spain not known for fine wine production, but there is one winegrower – Javi

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Canada Features 

Therianthropy Wines: a rising garagiste collective from Niagara, Ontario (updated July 2025)

July 25, 2025July 26, 2025 Treve Ring 10478 Views cabernet franc, Niagara, Ontario

Therianthropy is the mythical process of shapeshifting, which is another way to view turning nature into wine. Therianthropy Wines is

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Features Latest Portugal 

The Douro wines of Sogrape’s Casa de Ferreirinha, including Barca Velha, Portugal’s most famous table wine

July 25, 2025July 25, 2025 jamiegoode 1106 Views Douro

Sogrape is a big company with a wide range of wines, but also has some gems in its range, most

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Book review: Izabela Kamińska Wild yeast – stories about wine
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Book review: Izabela Kamińska Wild yeast – stories about wine

October 30, 2025 jamiegoode

Website: https://www.izabelakaminska.com/index.php/en/wild-yeasts/ Izabela Kamińska is a well-travelled Polish wine journalist, now living in Portugal. I’ve met her on the road

Cruse x Hirsch, tasting some Californian gems from this star partnership
California Features Latest 

Cruse x Hirsch, tasting some Californian gems from this star partnership

October 28, 2025October 29, 2025 jamiegoode
Hatzidakis: a deep dive into these top Santorini wines
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Hatzidakis: a deep dive into these top Santorini wines

October 27, 2025 jamiegoode
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Yarra Valley (5) Yarra Yering

October 25, 2025October 26, 2025 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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