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Highlights Spain 

Highlights: Tio Pepe Fino En Rama (2024 release)

May 20, 2024July 20, 2024 jamiegoode 3896 Views Jerez, sherry

The new release of the Tio Pepe Fino En Rama is out! And it’s a really good one. This Gonzalez

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Highlights Italy 

Highlights: Isole e Olena Cepparello 2021 IGT Toscana, Italy

May 18, 2024July 20, 2024 jamiegoode 2672 Views Chianti Classico, Sangiovese

Isole e Olena Cepparello 2021 IGT Toscana, Italy15% alcohol. This is 100% Sangiovese from Chianti Classico. First released in 1980,

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Champagne Highlights 

Highlights: Champagne Louis Roederer Collection 244 MV

May 15, 2024July 20, 2024 jamiegoode 3224 Views

You have to love Roederer. Of all the Champagne houses, they are the ones making the coolest moves at the

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Highlights South Africa 

Highlights: Thistle and Weed Chenin Blancs

May 12, 2024July 20, 2024 Treve Ring 3644 Views Chenin Blanc

Thistle and Weed is a collaboration between the Terblanche and Wiid families, established in 2015, and led by Etienne Terblanche

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Highlights South Africa 

Highlights: Kelvin Feku Grenache Noir 2022, WO Wellington, South Africa

May 1, 2024July 20, 2024 Treve Ring 4046 Views Grenache

Kelvin Feku is Alex Milner’s (of Natte Valleij) assistant winemaker, and this is the first release under his own label.

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Champagne Highlights 

Highlights: Champagne Telmont Réserve de la Terre

April 27, 2024July 20, 2024 jamiegoode 3610 Views

This wine is new to me. An organic Champagne where the front label looks like a back label, but it’s

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Highlights Spain 

Highlights: Hidalgo La Gitana Manzanilla en Rama (2024)

April 25, 2024July 20, 2024 jamiegoode 3710 Views sherry

It’s been exciting to see the rise of Fino and Manzanilla en rama, a story explained in more detail here.

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England Highlights 

Highlights: Roebuck Estates Classic Cuvée 2018 England

April 24, 2024July 20, 2024 jamiegoode 3147 Views Sparkling wine

In recent years, Roebuck Estates has emerged as one of the best English sparkling wine producers. They have four vineyards across

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England Highlights 

Highlights: Martin’s Lane Vineyard Founder’s Vintage Pinot Noir 2022 Crouch Valley, Essex, England

April 23, 2024July 20, 2024 jamiegoode 2805 Views pinot noir

This is a remarkable expression of English Pinot Noir, from a special vineyard in the Crouch Valley (one which lots

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Highlights South Africa 

Highlights: Crystallum Peter Max Pinot Noir 2021 Western Cape, South Africa

April 16, 2024May 21, 2024 jamiegoode 3596 Views

I visited Peter-Allan Finlayson at Gabrielskloof back in November. I really like the Crystallum wines he makes there, so if

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The Judgement of Cape Town
Features Latest South Africa 

The Judgement of Cape Town

September 23, 2025September 23, 2025 Treve Ring

Earlier this month I was invited to contribute to The Judgement of Cape Town, a blind tasting of premium Chardonnay

Weingut Rosi Schuster, with Hannes Schuster, who’s making some of Austria’s best wines
Austria Features Latest Regions 

Weingut Rosi Schuster, with Hannes Schuster, who’s making some of Austria’s best wines

September 22, 2025September 22, 2025 jamiegoode
Tomcsányi: natural wines from Somló, Hungary
Features Hungary Latest 

Tomcsányi: natural wines from Somló, Hungary

September 21, 2025September 21, 2025 jamiegoode
Pharaoh, Athens: a cool vibe, with wood-fired Greek cooking, vinyl and an amazing wine list
Features Greece Latest 

Pharaoh, Athens: a cool vibe, with wood-fired Greek cooking, vinyl and an amazing wine list

September 18, 2025September 18, 2025 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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