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Features Food and wine Portugal 

Locals and Nomads, a natural wine bar in Lisbon

June 27, 2025January 15, 2026 jamiegoode 3391 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 7690 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 2805 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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Restaurants: Nopalito, San Francisco

June 6, 2025January 15, 2026 jamiegoode 1998 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 4377 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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Features Food and wine 

Restaurants: Trishna, London, one of London’s top Indian restaurants with a great wine list

March 27, 2025September 29, 2025 jamiegoode 6250 Views

Website: https://www.trishnalondon.com/ Had a brilliant lunch at Trishna today. It’s one of the restaurants that form the JKS group, including

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Books Features Food and wine 

Wine and Asian food: a masterclass with Richard Hemming of 67 Pall Mall

March 2, 2025September 29, 2025 jamiegoode 3934 Views

Jamie Goode attends a seminar in Macao where Richard Hemming presents his book looking at matching wine with Asian food,

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Food and wine 

A wine dinner at Toklas, previewing their new wine list

January 23, 2025September 28, 2025 jamiegoode 2623 Views

Website: https://www.toklaslondon.com/ Toklas is a bustling modern-Mediterranean style restaurant just round the corner from Somerset House in London. Last night

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Kitting out the kitchen with professional restaurant appliances

January 10, 2025January 10, 2025 jamiegoode 1815 Views

One of the great things about open kitchens in restaurants is that you get to see the professionals at work.

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Food and wine Sweden 

Wine bars: L’Enoteca, Malmö, Sweden

November 9, 2024April 25, 2025 jamiegoode 3953 Views

Website: https://lenoteca.se/ On a recent trip to Sweden I had some time to spare in Malmö before heading over the

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Notes from a remarkable long lunch at Gaveto in Matosinhos, Portugal, with Niepoort, Transmission and friends, plus some amazing Champagnes
Champagne Features Latest Portugal Regions 

Notes from a remarkable long lunch at Gaveto in Matosinhos, Portugal, with Niepoort, Transmission and friends, plus some amazing Champagnes

September 16, 2026 jamiegoode

As far as lunches go, this was one of the best I’ve had in recent years, held at the remarkable

Going to the football? Like good wine? A tasting trip through Islington’s wine bars pairs well with tickets for a north London matchday
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Going to the football? Like good wine? A tasting trip through Islington’s wine bars pairs well with tickets for a north London matchday

September 14, 2026 jamiegoode
Pfalz Riesling: tasting through some of the top examples at the VDP tasting 2026
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Pfalz Riesling: tasting through some of the top examples at the VDP tasting 2026

September 14, 2026September 14, 2026 jamiegoode
the central dozen - 12 central otago pinot noirs
Features Latest New Zealand Regions 

The Central Dozen, an important exercise in telling the contemporary story of Central Otago Pinot Noir through a curated selection of 12 bottles

September 12, 2026September 12, 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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