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California Features 

A blind tasting of California Cabernet Sauvignon, including some of the best-sellers in the USA

March 23, 2023April 28, 2023 jamiegoode 9897 Views Cabernet Sauvignon

This was a chance to taste 8 Cabernet Sauvignon wines blind, which is always fun. Below are my notes and

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Features Profiles Regions South Africa 

Savage Wines: one of South Africa’s top producers, making balanced, elegant wines

March 20, 2023April 28, 2023 jamiegoode 23744 Views

Duncan Savage’s first solo vintage was as long ago as 2011, but he still seems to be a fresh face

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Candour wine: taking canned wine seriously

March 19, 2023April 28, 2023 jamiegoode 4634 Views

Website: https://candourwine.com/ Candour wines is a new venture trying to do something a bit different with canned wine. Instead of

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AI will be terrible for media, and it may already be too late to stop

March 18, 2023April 28, 2023 jamiegoode 5858 Views

Just what we need: another article about the rapid rise to prominence of artificial intelligence, and the content it is

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Features France Profiles 

Domaine Capmartin, naturally made wines from southwest France

March 16, 2023April 28, 2023 jamiegoode 5886 Views

Website: Domaine Capmartin, southwest France This is a family winery, now run by Simon Capmartin. His father created the domaine

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Features New Zealand Wine Science 

Marlborough at 50: a new project to safeguard the vineyard of the future, using accelerated clonal selection

March 15, 2023May 13, 2023 jamiegoode 8644 Views

So the Marlborough wine region turns 50 this year. With its continued growth and success, you could forgive the region

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Features Greece 

Exploring Greece (1) Parparoussis Winery, Patra

March 14, 2023April 28, 2023 jamiegoode 5961 Views

Parparoussis Winery, Patras, Peloponnese Parparoussis Winery, based in Patras in Western Achaia, was founded back in 1974 by Athanasios (Thanassis)

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Island wines: a tasting exploring some stunning low-intervention bottles from Tenerife, Porto Santo, Sicily, Kefalonia, Santorini and Mallorca

March 10, 2023April 28, 2023 jamiegoode 4839 Views

What is it about island wines that sets them apart? I know this is a vague question, because islands differ

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England Features 

Three leading English sparkling wines: Nyetimber, Black Chalk and Rathfinny

March 9, 2023April 28, 2023 jamiegoode 4027 Views

Did a compare and contrast with three of the top names in English sparkling wines. These aren’t prestige cuvées, but

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Features Regions Spain 

The wines of Bodegas Frontonio, Aragón, Spain

March 7, 2023April 28, 2023 jamiegoode 4967 Views

Website: https://www.bodegasfrontonio.com/en/ Fernando Mora was in town presenting the exciting wines of Bodegas Frontonio. An engineer-turned-winemaker, he and his partner

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Swartberg Wingerde: the amazing Piekeneerskloof wines of Rudiger Gretschel
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Swartberg Wingerde: the amazing Piekeneerskloof wines of Rudiger Gretschel

April 3, 2026April 3, 2026 jamiegoode

Website: https://swartbergwingerde.co.za/ When Rudiger Gretschel (pictured above) was being interviewed for his job with Tim Rands (Boekenhoutskloof et al), he

Domaine des Tourelles, making impressive wines in Lebanon
Features Latest Lebanon 

Domaine des Tourelles, making impressive wines in Lebanon

April 1, 2026April 1, 2026 jamiegoode
Brooks: impressive wines from Oregon with a particular focus on Riesling
Features Latest Oregon 

Brooks: impressive wines from Oregon with a particular focus on Riesling

March 31, 2026 jamiegoode
Champagne Houses to Watch in 2026
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Champagne Houses to Watch in 2026

March 30, 2026March 30, 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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