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Highlights Latest Washington State 

Highlights: Hedges Family Estate La Haute Cuvée 2019 Red Mountain, Washington State

July 30, 2024July 30, 2024 jamiegoode 3058 Views

Website: https://hedgesfamilyestate.com/ Hedges Family Estate La Haute Cuvée 2019 Red Mountain, Washington State, USA13.5% alcohol. 93% Cabernet Sauvignon, 3.5% Petit

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Highlights: Riverview Pinot Noir 2021 Crouch Valley, Essex

July 23, 2024July 23, 2024 jamiegoode 3094 Views pinot noir

Website: https://riverviewcrouchvalley.com/ It’s an interesting time for English still wines at the moment, and the Crouch Valley in Essex is

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Highlights: Cruse Wine Co Sparkling White Zinfandel

July 22, 2024July 22, 2024 jamiegoode 3247 Views Zinfandel

White Zinfandel is a category that rarely makes it to these pages (although it does get a mention in this

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Highlights: Weyborne, a new-ish English sparkling wine producer tilting at the top

July 20, 2024July 20, 2024 jamiegoode 3854 Views Sparkling wine

Owner Nick Clarke to purchased the historic Blackdown Park estate in 2010 (near Haslemere, Surrey), and has planted 25 acres

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Highlights Spain 

Highlights: Alvear Tres Miradas Paraje de Riofrio Alto 3er Año 2019

June 21, 2024March 28, 2025 jamiegoode 3298 Views

Website: https://www.alvear.es/en/ This is an unfortified white from Alvear, one of the top producers in Montilla-Moriles in the south of

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California Highlights 

Highlights: Beaulieu Vineyard Georges de Latour Private Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2021 Napa Valley, California

June 17, 2024August 25, 2024 jamiegoode 4288 Views Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa

This is a Napa Classic. Beaulieu Vineyards are now owned by an Australian company (Treasury Wine Estates) but they have

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Highlights Portugal 

Highlights: Ag.Hora Loureiro Gio Chezade x Soalheiro 2020 Vinho Verde, Portugal

June 13, 2024August 25, 2024 jamiegoode 2386 Views

So impressed by this wine! I tried it a while back, then bought a bottle and recently cracked it, and

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Beaujolais Highlights 

Highlights: Two Cru from Domaine Benjamin Passot, Beaujolais, France

June 12, 2024August 25, 2024 Treve Ring 3797 Views Gamay

Benjamin Passot is Bourgogne by birth, with his professional experience acquired over several years on the Vosne Romanée terroirs. He

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Highlights South Africa 

Highlights: Lourens Family Wines Lindi Carien 2022 Western Cape, South Africa

June 9, 2024August 25, 2024 jamiegoode 3517 Views

Found this wine on the shelf at the Kew branch of the excellent Good Wine Shop. After a walk on

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Food and wine Highlights Spain 

Highlights: Barbadillo Manzanilla Solear NV Spain

June 7, 2024August 25, 2024 jamiegoode 4416 Views manzanilla

Is there a better value wine than biologically aged Fino Sherry and Manzanilla? This Solear from Barbadillo is available on

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Bordeaux 2025 wines en primeur
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A quick appraisal of the 2025 vintage in Bordeaux

June 3, 2026 jamiegoode

I didn’t get to do primeurs in Bordeaux this spring. In fact I never do primeurs in Bordeaux because it’s

Jean Baptiste Hardy, making beautiful wines in Muscadet
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Jean Baptiste Hardy, making beautiful wines in Muscadet

June 3, 2026June 3, 2026 jamiegoode
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Exploring Vinho Verde: visiting star producer Anselmo Mendes

June 2, 2026June 2, 2026 jamiegoode
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Features Latest Portugal 

Current releases from Dão legend Antonio Madeira

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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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