Skip to content
Wednesday, September 30, 2026
Latest:
  • A mature Penfolds tasting with Yattarna, Bin 389, St Henri, Bin 707 and Grange
  • Argentina Reloaded! A tasting by Paz Levinson showing the cutting edge of Argentina’s wine offering
  • Four lovely wines at Noble Rot Mayfair: Langham, Phelan Farms, Sclavos and Suertes del Marques
  • Viña González Bastías, Maule Valley, Chile: exciting naturally made wines from an amazing old vineyard
  • Restaurants: Nomi, an excellent wine bar in Berlin
wineanorak.com

wineanorak.com

online wine magazine

  • blog
    • Jamie Goode’s Wine Blog
    • My old blog: 2006-2010
  • Videos
  • Regions
  • New to wine
  • Profiles
  • Food and wine
  • Features
  • Travel
  • Wine Science
  • Highlights

Features

Features Food and wine 

Superb wines at Enomania, Copenhagen

August 7, 2023March 5, 2024 jamiegoode 5115 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

Read more
Features Regions Spain 

Cava discovery (6) Muscàndia

August 4, 2023March 5, 2024 jamiegoode 5813 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

Read more
Features Spain 

Cava discovery (5) Codorníu

August 3, 2023March 5, 2024 jamiegoode 7297 Views

Wine was first made at Codorníu in 1551, by Jaume Codorníu. The surname Codorníu was lost in 1659 when one

Read more
California Features 

Birichino, Santa Cruz, California

August 2, 2023January 9, 2025 jamiegoode 4890 Views

Website: https://www.birichino.com/ Founded by Alex Krause and John Locke in 2008, Birichino (‘ch’ is pronounced ‘k’) began with a focus

Read more
Books Bordeaux Features 

Book review: From Bordeaux to the Stars, by J.M. Cazes

August 2, 2023August 2, 2023 jamiegoode 6785 Views

I really enjoyed reading From Bordeaux to the Stars, the English translation of Jean-Michel Cazes autobiography, initially published in 2022

Read more
Features Portugal 

Quinta de Baixo, where Niepoort are making increasingly compelling wines in Bairrada, Portugal

July 31, 2023March 5, 2024 jamiegoode 6582 Views Baga, Bairrada

Dirk Niepoort has long been interested in the terroirs of Bairrada. He thinks that the combination of the chalky clay

Read more
Beaujolais Features Wine Science 

Beaujolais adventures (4) Château de Javernand, Chiroubles

July 28, 2023January 23, 2026 jamiegoode 6258 Views Agroforestry

Pierre Prost (pictured above) is an articulate advocate of agroecology, something that he’s implementing in the vineyards of Château de

Read more
Bordeaux Features Regions 

Château Haut-Bailly: one of the star properties of Bordeaux

July 25, 2023January 16, 2024 jamiegoode 8574 Views

Website: https://www.haut-bailly.com/en/home.html Haut-Bailly is consistently one of my favourite Bordeaux Châteaux, and so it was nice to taste through some

Read more
Features South Africa TOP STORIES 

50 years of Kanonkop, one of South Africa’s leading wineries

July 24, 2023July 24, 2023 jamiegoode 11471 Views

Johann Krige (proprietor) was in town with Abrie Beeslaar (winemaker) in a tasting that celebrated 50 years of Kanonkop, one

Read more
Burgundy Features 

Exploring Bourgogne (1) Domaine Verret, Saint-Bris

July 22, 2023January 16, 2024 jamiegoode 7133 Views

Domaine Verret14 route de Champs – 89530 Saint-Bris-Le-VineuxTel. +33 (0)3 86 53 31 81www.domaineverret.com The Verret family have been winegrowers

Read more
  • ← Previous
  • Next →

Features

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
Chile maule wine region gonzalez bastias
Chile Features Latest Regions 

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

September 25, 2026 jamiegoode

Regions

  • Champagne
  • Burgundy
  • Bordeaux
  • Douro
  • New Zealand
  • Canada
  • South Africa
  • Australia

About Us

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.

As an Amazon Associate this website earns from qualifying purchases (for example, the links for purchasing books). Wineanorak also earns from Google AdSense display advertising.

You can contact Jamie at drjamiegoode@gmail.com Also, through my accounts at Twitter, Instagram and Mastodon

Country profiles

  • South Africa
  • Canada
  • New Zealand
  • France
  • Spain
  • USA
  • Australia

Contributors

  • Jamie Goode, Chief Anorak
  • Treve Ring, Correspondent Anorak
  • Lisse Garnett, Under Anorak
And here you can SUBSCRIBE to the wineanorak mailing list - once a month updates, with some more private content just for subscribers

My books

Copyright © 2026 wineanorak.com. All rights reserved. Powered by WordPress.
We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it.