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Highlights Latest South Africa 

Highlights: Vulpes The Cape Fox Chenin Blanc 2022 Swartland, South Africa

November 26, 2023 jamiegoode 6478 Views Chenin Blanc, swartland

This is a new project from winemaker Nuschka de Vos. Her start in the wine industry was a good one:

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Australia Highlights Latest 

Highlights: Joshua Cooper Shay’s Flat Cabernet Sauvignon 2021, Pyrenees, Victoria, Australia

November 22, 2023 Treve Ring 3569 Views biodynamic, Pyrenees

Joshua Cooper grew up in the vineyards with parents Alan and Nelly Cooper, and their pioneering biodynamic Cobaw Ridge winery

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Highlights Latest South Africa 

Highlights: two Cap Classiques from Pieter Ferreira

November 18, 2023November 18, 2023 jamiegoode 3003 Views

Pieter Ferreira is so well known for his work at Graham Beck, and for promoting the whole category of Cap

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Highlights Latest Portugal 

Highlights: three vintages of the Cedro do Noval Branco

November 9, 2023November 9, 2023 jamiegoode 3467 Views Douro

When it comes to table wines, we tend to think of the Douro as a red wine region, but it’s

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Highlights Latest Spain 

Highlights: Barbadillo Manzanilla Pastora Pasada en Rama NV

November 6, 2023 jamiegoode 2448 Views manzanilla, sherry

Found this hidden in the racks: an en rama Manzanilla bottled in 2021, which would have been intended for consumption

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England Highlights Latest 

Highlights: Fractal Sequence 001 NV England

October 29, 2023 jamiegoode 4273 Views

This is an interesting project. It’s a collaboration between William Lowe (who is a master of wine) and Nick Lane

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Canada Highlights Latest 

Highlights: Three from the Naramata Bench, Okanagan, Canada

October 25, 2023November 2, 2023 jamiegoode 3671 Views

Website: https://naramatabench.com/ The Okanagan Valley in Canada’s British Colombia is an important wine region. Five hours drive from Vancouver, up

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Highlights Latest Loire Regions 

Highlights: the first evening in Sancerre begins with two great bottles

October 11, 2023October 11, 2023 jamiegoode 3852 Views pinot noir, Sancerre, Sauvignon Blanc

I’m in the Centre Loire region of France for a few days, beginning in Sancerre. Arriving quite late, there was

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Burgundy Food and wine Highlights Latest 

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

October 5, 2023 jamiegoode 5274 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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Highlights Spain 

Highlights: La Rioja Alta Viña Arana Gran Reserva 2016

October 2, 2023March 5, 2024 jamiegoode 3819 Views Rioja

Classic, ageworthy and really good. It’s not bad value, either at around £40. La Rioja Alta Viña Arana Gran Reserva

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Anthill Farms Winery: Californian elegance
California Features Latest 

Anthill Farms Winery: Californian elegance

December 20, 2025 jamiegoode

Website: https://www.anthillfarms.com/ Anthill Farms began with 8 barrels of wine in 2024, and was started by three winemakers who’d met

The wine aisles at Lidl are depressing if you care about the wine industry
Features Latest 

The wine aisles at Lidl are depressing if you care about the wine industry

December 20, 2025 jamiegoode
Aldeia de Cima, Alentejo
Features Portugal 

The wines of Aldeia de Cima, an exciting project in Portugal’s Alentejo

December 18, 2025December 18, 2025 jamiegoode
New releases from Radford Dale, South Africa: the over-delivering Vinum wines, plus their new organic wines
Features Profiles South Africa 

New releases from Radford Dale, South Africa: the over-delivering Vinum wines, plus their new organic wines

December 17, 2025December 17, 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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