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Features New Zealand 

Spoke: a new range of boutique wines from New Zealand’s Marlborough region

August 18, 2023March 5, 2024 jamiegoode 7593 Views Marlborough

Website: https://vineyard-productions.com/wine/spoke/ Marlborough is home to some big wineries. By my reckoning there are five that each process more than

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Features Hungary 

Top Hungarian wines from Borett wines: a portfolio of some of the country’s leading artisan wineries

August 16, 2023March 5, 2024 jamiegoode 7521 Views

Website: https://www.borett.com/ On a recent trip to Hungary I met up with Maria Crabb (pictured above), the dynamic force behind

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Features Regions Spain 

Sherry heaven: the 2023 release of Lustau’s 3 en rama

August 16, 2023August 16, 2023 jamiegoode 6991 Views sherry

Website: Lustau 3 en rama En Rama sherry – bottled straight from the casks, raw and unfiltered, have become a

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Features Profiles Regions Slovenia TOP STORIES 

In Slovenia (5) visiting Vino Gross in Haloze (updated with new releases)

August 14, 2023August 14, 2023 jamiegoode 10634 Views

Haloze is a hidden place, says Michael Gross. He comes from a winegrowing family, and with his brother, was running

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Burgundy Features 

Exploring Bourgogne (2) Cave de Bailly-Lapierre, specialists in Crémant

August 13, 2023March 5, 2024 jamiegoode 6348 Views Sparkling wine

Cave de Bailly-LapierreHameau de Bailly – 89530 Saint-Bris-Le-VineuxTel. +33 (0)3 86 53 77 77www.bailly-lapierre.fr Located just above on the Yonne

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Features Latest 

Fine wines with friends: the joy of tasting blind whatever people bring along

August 11, 2023 jamiegoode 4243 Views

Notes from a gathering of wine trade friends at Christina Rasmussen’s place, with Rajat Parr as an overseas guest. These

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England Features Profiles Regions 

Visiting Gutter & Stars, an urban winery in a Cambridge windmill

August 9, 2023August 10, 2023 jamiegoode 8383 Views

Website: https://www.gutterandstars.co.uk/ Chris Wilson is a journalist-turned-winemaker. He was – and still is – a wine journalist, but turned to

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Features Italy 

Piemonte adventure (5) visiting GD Vajra, one of Barolo’s top producers

August 8, 2023March 5, 2024 jamiegoode 8381 Views Piemonte

Website: https://www.gdvajra.it/en/homepage ‘We are 50 years old, which makes us youngsters in the region, and we had a very humble

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Features Food and wine 

Superb wines at Enomania, Copenhagen

August 7, 2023March 5, 2024 jamiegoode 5063 Views Restaurants

Website: http://www.enomania.dk/ Enomania is a remarkable Italian restaurant in Copenhagen with a strong interest in wine, as implied in the

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Features Regions Spain 

Cava discovery (6) Muscàndia

August 4, 2023March 5, 2024 jamiegoode 5756 Views cava

Website: http://www.muscandia.com/en This small winery is one of the most impressive of the Cava producers I’ve come across. It’s the

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Rheingau riesling tasting
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Rheingau Riesling: tasting through some of the best examples at the VDP tasting 2026

September 8, 2026September 8, 2026 jamiegoode

Continuing with my write ups from the amazing VDP tastings in Weisbaden, August 2026, here are notes on the Rheingau

Canada’s Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys (14) Nostalgia
Canada Features Latest Regions 

Canada’s Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys (14) Nostalgia

September 5, 2026September 5, 2026 jamiegoode
Canada’s Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys (13) Pamplemousse Jus
Canada Features Latest 

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
Features Food and wine Latest 

Restaurants: Singburi, amazing Thai food in Shoreditch, London, and a short but great wine list

August 29, 2026August 29, 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.

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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