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Food and wine South Africa 

A remarkable multicourse meal at Creation, a leading winery in South Africa’s Hemel-en-Aarde wine region

January 6, 2026January 6, 2026 jamiegoode 553 Views Restaurants

Website: https://www.creationwines.com/activities/ Creation is an impressive winery in the Hemel-en-Aarde wine region of South Africa. Head along the coast to

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Features Food and wine Latest Profiles South Africa 

Creation, one of the leading wineries from South Africa’s cool-climate Hemel-en-Aarde region

January 5, 2026January 6, 2026 jamiegoode 8075 Views

Website:  https://www.creationwines.com/ High up in the Hemel-en-Arde region lies one of South Africa’s top wine estates – one that has

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Meals of the year, 2025: 16 of my favourite dining experiences

December 27, 2025 jamiegoode 815 Views Restaurants

I love restaurants. I know: I spend too much of my income eating and drinking. I approach gastronomy the way

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Restaurants: a near perfect lunch at Chez Bruce, Wandsworth Common, London

December 19, 2025 jamiegoode 995 Views Restaurants

Website: https://www.chezbruce.co.uk/ What do you want from a restaurant experience? It really depends. Sometimes you want gastronomic challenge. Sometimes you

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Features Food and wine Latest Portugal Profiles 

THE STORY OF MADEIRA 

December 3, 2025December 4, 2025 Lisse Garnett 3416 Views

Enthrallingly versatile, everlasting and bomb proof – Madeira is the perfect sup for our uncertain times says Lisse Garnett 400

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Beaujolais Features Food and wine Latest 

10 Years of Rotters Towers, with food from Vantre (Paris) and lots of Beaujolais

November 21, 2025November 21, 2025 jamiegoode 791 Views Restaurants

Each year Noble Rot Lambs Conduit Street celebrate Beaujolais Nouveau day in style, inviting a guest chef or restaurant to

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Features Food and wine Greece Latest 

Sifnos, the gastronomic Greek island (7) back to Cherinossos and Sifnos Stoneware

November 16, 2025November 16, 2025 jamiegoode 872 Views Restaurants

So the final day. We weren’t catching the ferry until 5 pm, so it was back to Cherinissos for the

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Features Food and wine Greece Latest 

Sifnos, the gastronomic Greek island (6) Vahti Bay and Tsikali; Keremos and Paralia Beach Bar and Agyris

November 16, 2025November 16, 2025 jamiegoode 969 Views

The next day’s lunch was a step up from the previous day. Staying in Vahti Bay, we headed to the

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Features Food and wine Greece Latest 

Sifnos, the gastronomic Greek island (5) Chrysopigi Tavern, Faros, Vathi Bay and Manolis 

November 15, 2025November 17, 2025 jamiegoode 963 Views Restaurants

Day 4. Ferries cancelled because of winds. A couple in our accommodation were somewhat distraught because they were due to

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Features Food and wine Greece Latest 

Sifnos, the gastronomic Greek island (4) Kastro and Cantina, Loggia reprise

November 15, 2025November 16, 2025 jamiegoode 944 Views Restaurants

The second day in Kastro. We walk into the village and then take a path down to view the famous

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Garcés Silva is making some lovely wines in Chile’s Leyda Valley, mostly under the Amayna label

February 13, 2026February 13, 2026 jamiegoode

Website: https://vgs.cl/en/ Garcés Silva is a winery whose name isn’t well known, but they are important in the story of

La Grange d’Ernest, an exciting new producer from Savoie
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La Grange d’Ernest, an exciting new producer from Savoie

February 11, 2026February 11, 2026 jamiegoode
Impressive, well priced wines from Grochau Cellars/GC Wines from Oregon’s Willamette Valley
Features Latest Oregon 

Impressive, well priced wines from Grochau Cellars/GC Wines from Oregon’s Willamette Valley

February 8, 2026February 8, 2026 jamiegoode
Boekenhoutskloof: a vertical of Semillon, and the 2023 new releases from this top South African winery
Features Latest South Africa 

Boekenhoutskloof: a vertical of Semillon, and the 2023 new releases from this top South African winery

February 6, 2026February 6, 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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