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Restaurants: Arabica Borough Market, London

February 6, 2024 jamiegoode 4674 Views

Website: https://www.arabicalondon.com/borough-market/ OK, it’s not fancy. But Arabica is just the sort of place I love eating at. It’s a

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Chianti Classico deep dive (5) dinner at Salefino Vino & Cucina in Siena

January 19, 2024January 19, 2024 jamiegoode 3765 Views Chianti Classico, Restaurants

Website: https://salefino-siena.com/vino-e-cucina/ This was my first time in Siena, which is simply stunning. It’s almost entirely unspoiled, and is very

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Food and wine South Africa 

Restaurants: Post and Pepper, Stellenbosch

January 15, 2024January 15, 2024 jamiegoode 4526 Views Restaurants

Website: https://postandpepper.co.za/ This was one of the gastronomic highlights of a recent trip to South Africa, where we spent a

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Restaurants: Gymkhana, London

January 14, 2024January 14, 2024 jamiegoode 9908 Views Restaurants

Restaurants: Gymkhana Website: https://gymkhanalondon.com/ I first visited Gymkhana back in September 2014, about a year after it opened. This was

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Restaurants: Plateau, Brighton

January 5, 2024 jamiegoode 2761 Views Restaurants

Website: https://www.plateaubrighton.co.uk/ Plateau is one of those restaurants that I love to eat at. A lunch today, on a bright

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Exploring Japanese wine (5) a wine-pairing lunch at Chi-Fu, Osaka

December 29, 2023December 29, 2023 jamiegoode 10522 Views

Website: https://chi-fu.jp/ This was a remarkable gastronomic experience. Chi-Fu is a Japanese-influenced Chinese restaurant in Osaka serving an amazing multicourse

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Exploring Japanese wine (4) a dinner with amazing wines at Shimanouchi Fujimaru Winery

December 15, 2023December 15, 2023 jamiegoode 6144 Views

Website: www.papilles.net This was a beautiful evening at Fujimaru Winery, which is a restaurant and urban winery in Osaka. This

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Exploring Japanese wine (3) Dinner at Wassy’s Dining Souple, Osaka

December 8, 2023 jamiegoode 6204 Views

Website: https://wassys.co.jp/souple/ Wassy’s is a chain of wine shops in Osaka, carrying an amazing selection of international and Japanese wines,

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A fine wine lunch at Chez Bruce: Chave, Jamet, Chapoutier, La Mission, Montrose and others

December 8, 2023December 17, 2023 jamiegoode 2796 Views

One of the great pleasures in life is a good lunch with plenty of wine, shared with nice people. These

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Exploring Japanese wine (2) Kaiseki dinner at Nakanoshima Nadaman, Osako

December 6, 2023December 6, 2023 jamiegoode 2803 Views

Website: https://store.nadaman.co.jp/en/pages/restaurant_nakanoshima Nakanoshima Nadaman is a kaiseki restaurant in the Rihga Royal hotel in Osake. Here we enjoyed a top

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A beautiful dinner at Lakeview Palace in Macau, matching Chinese food with some top Chinese wines
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A beautiful dinner at Lakeview Palace in Macau, matching Chinese food with some top Chinese wines

March 6, 2026March 6, 2026 jamiegoode

Website: https://www.wynnresortsmacau.com/en/wynn-palace/dining/lakeview-palace I arrived tonight in Macau in advance of judging the Wynn Signature Chinese Wine Awards. We dined at

Another airline lounge raid, 12 wines tried
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Another airline lounge raid, 12 wines tried

March 4, 2026March 4, 2026 jamiegoode
Apollo’s Praise: an exciting new producer in New York’s Finger Lakes wine region
Features Latest New York State Profiles 

Apollo’s Praise: an exciting new producer in New York’s Finger Lakes wine region

March 3, 2026 jamiegoode
Porto in pictures, with a short film
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Porto in pictures, with a short film

March 2, 2026March 2, 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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