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Highlights Japan 

Highlights: Niki Hills Winery Zweigeltrebe 2022 Hokkaido, Japan

August 7, 2025July 2, 2026 jamiegoode 1759 Views

Niki Hills is an interesting winery based in Hokkaido, the northernmost island of Japan, which is turning out to be

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Highlights Latest Uruguay 

Highlights: Pablo Fallabrino Sagitta Nebbiolo Grand Reserve 2020 Uruguay

August 5, 2025August 5, 2025 jamiegoode 1694 Views Nebbiolo

Popped into the Good Wine Shop in Kew today and was recommended this wine: a Nebbiolo from Uruguay! Drank it

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Chile Features Highlights 

MAULE: SMALL-SCALE ETHICAL PRODUCERS KEEP RURAL COMMUNITIES ALIVE WHILST MAKING SOME OF THE MOST EXCITING WINES IN LATIN AMERICA 

July 29, 2025July 2, 2026 Lisse Garnett 7125 Views Organic Chile

Time to drink up, says Lisse Garnett.. The UK drinks more Chilean wine than anyone else. Market contractions challenge this

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England Highlights 

Highlights: two from new English still wine producer The Heretics

July 21, 2025July 2, 2026 jamiegoode 1968 Views

Website: https://www.wearetheheretics.com/ The Heretics Pale Rosé 2023 Crouch Valley, Essex12% alcohol. Pale in colour, as it says on the label.

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England Highlights 

Highlights: Smith & Evans Higher Plot Pinot Chardonnay Late Disgorged 2010 England

July 15, 2025July 2, 2026 jamiegoode 1777 Views Sparkling wine

This is really interesting; It’s a late disgorgement of an English sparkling wine that spent 13 years on its lees.

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England Highlights Videos 

Highlight: the stunning first edition of Perpetual from English fizz star Langham

July 14, 2025July 2, 2026 jamiegoode 4079 Views Sparkling wine

Langham Perpetual Chardonnay First Edition NV Dorset, England12% alcohol. The best wines from 2017, 2018 and 2019 blended together, and

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Highlights South Africa 

Highlights: three stunning Chenins from Alheit

July 7, 2025February 12, 2026 jamiegoode 2503 Views

Chris Alheit was presenting at the Chenin Congress 2025 in the Loire Valley, and he showed three recent releases. These

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England Highlights 

Highlights: Hambledon Classic Cuvée Rosé NV England

July 3, 2025February 12, 2026 jamiegoode 1736 Views

New release of this impressive rosé from Hambledon, one of the UK’s leading sparkling wine houses. [Aside: keep this out

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Highlights Spain 

Highlights: Bien de Altura Tidao 4 2022 Gran Canaria, Spain

July 3, 2025February 12, 2026 jamiegoode 2094 Views

A really impressive single vineyard wine from the talented Carmelo Peña, who also makes wine from Lanzarote. This is from

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Highlights Hungary Videos 

Highlights: Heimann & Fiai Kadarka 2024 Szekszárd, Hungary

June 26, 2025January 15, 2026 jamiegoode 4605 Views

Heimann & Fiai are an impressive producer based in Szekszárd, Hungary. This is their Kadarka, a variety that makes beautiful

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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
Features Germany Latest 

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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