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Australia Food and wine 

Restaurants: Pastel Wine Bar, Adelaide, Australia – superb food meets a good wine list in a nice setting

July 27, 2025February 12, 2026 jamiegoode 2096 Views Adelaide Hills, McLaren Vale, Restaurants

Website: https://pastel.bar/ On my first night in Australia, after a drink at East End Cellars, I headed over to Pastel

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Restaurants: Balabaya, London, amazing flavours of the Levant

July 21, 2025 jamiegoode 1731 Views Restaurants

Website: https://balabaya.co.uk/ Lunched at Balabaya, a really impressive restaurant in the Israeli/middle eastern flavour space – a cuisine that I’m

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Features Food and wine 

Restaurants: The Palomar, Soho, London

July 17, 2025 jamiegoode 2569 Views Restaurants

The Palomar combines excellent food with a well chosen, interesting wine list. The Palomar is part of the Studio Paskin

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Canada Food and wine Latest 

Restaurants: Elma, Pencticton, BC, Canada

July 12, 2025July 12, 2025 jamiegoode 1629 Views Restaurants

Website: https://eatatelma.com/ If you are heading to Canada’s Okanagan wine region, then there’s one restaurant I highly recommend. It’s Elma,

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Features Food and wine Loire 

A night out in Angers: Cercle Rouge and Barco Vino

July 6, 2025February 12, 2026 jamiegoode 1908 Views

Websites: https://www.barcovino.com/ | https://www.facebook.com/lecerclerougeangers?locale2=fr_FR# Had a really nice evening with a good crew in Angers. Two excellent drinking spots: Cercle

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Features Food and wine Portugal 

Locals and Nomads, a natural wine bar in Lisbon

June 27, 2025January 15, 2026 jamiegoode 2369 Views

Website: https://localsandnomads.com/ Locals and Nomads is a small naturally focused wine bar in Lisbon. I had a gap in my

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Argentina Chile Features Food and wine TOP STORIES 

PERU’S NATURAL ABUNDANCE INSPIRED THE INCAS TO WORSHIP THE SOIL AND 16th CENTURY CONQUISTADORS TO PLANT THE FIRST EUROPEAN VINES IN LATIN AMERICA 

June 27, 2025January 15, 2026 Lisse Garnett 6217 Views PERU

The wines of Chile

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England Food and wine Latest 

Restaurants: Angela’s, Margate

June 17, 2025June 17, 2025 jamiegoode 1777 Views Restaurants

Website: https://angelasofmargate.com/ Margate is a seaside town on the Kent coast, and it’s new nickname is Shoreditch on Sea. Why?

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Food and wine 

Restaurants: Nopalito, San Francisco

June 6, 2025January 15, 2026 jamiegoode 1384 Views Restaurants

Website: https://www.nopalitosf.com/ One great advantage that San Francisco (and the rest of California) has over London is the availability of

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Features Food and wine 

Restaurants: Bubala, Soho, London

May 19, 2025January 15, 2026 jamiegoode 2550 Views

Bubala is a small London chain of three vegetarian restaurants (in Kings Cross, Spitafield and Soho) focusing on middle-eastern food.

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Chile Features Latest 

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
Features France Latest 

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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