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Champagne Highlights 

Highlights: Champagne Billecart Salmon 2016 France

March 1, 2024May 21, 2024 jamiegoode 2894 Views

Impressed with this latest vintage release from Billecart-Salmon. Champagne Billecart Salmon Vintage Extra Brut 2016 FranceThis is 100% Grand Cru,

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Highlights Latest Portugal 

Highlights: Maçanita Vinhos Letra F Vinho de Mistura 2022, Douro Valley, Portugal

February 27, 2024February 27, 2024 Treve Ring 3586 Views Douro, Old vines

Letra F refers to the last letter in the grade for the categorization system for port grapes in the Douro,

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Highlights: Champagne Drappier Clarevallis

February 25, 2024February 25, 2024 jamiegoode 2685 Views

This is such an interesting wine, which I recently revisited after trying two years earlier. Clarevallis is the name given

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Highlights: Domaine des Chopins Beaujolais Villages 2022

February 13, 2024 jamiegoode 3109 Views

Germaine Santallier is a young vigneron in Beaujolais who worked with Marie-Thérèze Chappaz in Switzerland and then Jean-Claude Lapalu in

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Highlights Latest Loire 

Highlights: Domaine Roche Bleue L’Orée de la Berterie 2022 Coteaux-du-Loir

February 11, 2024February 12, 2024 jamiegoode 2416 Views Chenin Blanc

Domaine Roche Bleue L’Orée de la Berterie 2022 Coteaux-du-Loir, Loire13.5% alcohol. This is Chenin Blanc from 30 year old vines.

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Highlights: Champagne Piper-Heidsieck Cuvée Brut NV

February 7, 2024February 7, 2024 jamiegoode 2676 Views

This isn’t life-changing fizz, but it’s a really well made Champagne at a good price, and I’m sitting here in

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Highlights Spain 

Highlights: Partida Creus Blanco GB 2020 Penedès, Spain

February 3, 2024 jamiegoode 1860 Views

This is a beautiful naturally made Garnatxa Blanca from Penedès. Partida Creus Blanco GB 2020 Penedès, Spain11.5% alcohol. Golden in

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Highlights: Champagne Philipponnat Royale Réserve Brut NV France

January 29, 2024 jamiegoode 2348 Views

Champagne Philipponnat Royale Réserve Brut NV France12.5% alcoghol. With a base of 2019 vintage and 34% reserve wines aged in

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Highlights Latest Spain 

Highlights: Barbadillo Nave Trinidad Manzanilla en Rama, Spain

January 26, 2024 Treve Ring 1712 Views manzanilla, sherry

The Nave Trininad is one of the naves in the bodega El Toro, the first warehouse that Benigno Barbadillo bought

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Highlights: Champagne Taittinger Comtes de Champagne Grand Crus Rosé 2011

January 16, 2024 jamiegoode 2168 Views

2011 was a very tricky vintage in Champagne, but I really liked the Comtes Blanc de Blanc, and here’s the

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In Chile, day 1, tasting interesting wines with good folk on a Sunday afternoon
Chile Features Latest 

In Chile, day 1, tasting interesting wines with good folk on a Sunday afternoon

November 5, 2025November 5, 2025 jamiegoode

I’m in Chile, and arriving Sunday afternoon I headed off to a very informal Sunday afternoon chill with some local

Book review: The Science of Fermentation
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Book review: The Science of Fermentation

November 2, 2025 jamiegoode
Wine and travel as competitive sports
Features Latest 

Wine and travel as competitive sports

November 1, 2025November 1, 2025 jamiegoode
Book review: Izabela Kamińska Wild yeast – stories about wine
Features Latest 

Book review: Izabela Kamińska Wild yeast – stories about wine

October 30, 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.

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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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