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

December 15, 2023December 15, 2023 jamiegoode 7080 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 6889 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 3278 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 3259 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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Restaurants: Rubens, Franschhoek, South Africa

November 22, 2023 jamiegoode 4564 Views Restaurants

Website: https://www.reubens.co.za/ Franschhoek, in South Africa’s Western Cape, is a beautiful destination. With mountains every way you look, this valley

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A wine dinner at Brawn, London, with some lovely wines

November 11, 2023June 8, 2025 jamiegoode 4050 Views Restaurants

Website: https://www.brawn.co/ I hadn’t been to Brawn, a neighbourhood restaurant on Columbia Road in Bethnal Green, for ages. So it

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Highlights: Dinner at Les Caves Madeleine, Beaune, with two exceptional Aligotés

October 5, 2023 jamiegoode 7214 Views Aligote, Restaurants

Website: https://cavesmadeleine.com/ If you are heading to Beaune, two things you must do before travelling: make a reservation at La

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Food and wine Highlights South Africa 

Highlights: Mullineux and Sadie at Noble Rot Mayfair

September 29, 2023March 5, 2024 jamiegoode 4076 Views Restaurants, swartland

Had a lovely lunch this week at Noble Rot Mayfair, the third restuarant in the Noble Rot franchise after Lambs

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Highlights: Viña Tondonia Rosé at Restaurant Frank, Copenhagen

August 9, 2023March 5, 2024 jamiegoode 3617 Views Restaurants

Website: https://restaurantfrank.dk/en I happened to be in Copenhagen at the same time as Christina Rasmussen and we were both free,

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Superb wines at Enomania, Copenhagen

August 7, 2023March 5, 2024 jamiegoode 5088 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

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

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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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