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Highlights Italy Latest 

Highlights: Angiolino Maule Masieri 2023 Veneto, Italy

November 12, 2025 jamiegoode 805 Views Natural wine, veneto

From one of Italy’s most important natural wineries. Angiolino Maule and his wife Rosamaria founded this winery in 1988, after

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Champagne Highlights Latest 

Highlights: Champagne Henriot Brut Souverain NV

November 9, 2025November 9, 2025 jamiegoode 926 Views

Website: https://www.champagne-henriot.com/ Tried this in the lounge en route to Portugal today. Really like it. Henriot was part of Artémis,

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Highlights: Clos des Fous Pour Ma Gueule Riesling 2018 Itata, Chile

November 3, 2025November 3, 2025 jamiegoode 1062 Views Itata

So I’ve just arrived in Santiago, Chile, and time for lunch at Hotel Magnolia while they prepare my room. Starting

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Highlights Latest New Zealand 

Highlights: Cloudy Bay Sauvignon Blanc 2025 Marlborough, New Zealand

October 29, 2025 jamiegoode 2090 Views Marlborough, Sauvignon Blanc

First look at the 2025 vintage in Marlborough by way of one of the region’s classics, the Cloudy Bay Sauvignon

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Highlights Latest South Africa 

Highlight : Testalonga Bandits Kloof Daisy’s Pond 2021, Swartland, South Africa

October 16, 2025October 16, 2025 Treve Ring 1127 Views swartland

One of the stars of South Africa’s New Wave wine renaissance, Testalonga is Craig and Carla Hawkins’ personal project, dedicated

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Burgundy Highlights Latest 

Highlights: Domaine des Rouges-Queues Bourgogne Aligoté En Vauvetout 2023

October 15, 2025 jamiegoode 834 Views Aligote

This is from a small domaine in Maranges established by Isabelle and Jean-Yves Vantey in 1998. They switched to farming

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Highlights Latest Spain 

Highlights: Soca Rel Ecursac 2022 Mallorca, Spain

October 12, 2025October 12, 2025 jamiegoode 928 Views Mallorca

Soca Rel Ecursac 2022 Mallorca, SpainThis is a small cellar set up by Pep Rodriguez, who in 2008 rented some

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Highlights Hungary Latest 

Highlights: Kolonia 52 Bleu de Hongrie 2023 Balaton, Hungary

October 12, 2025October 13, 2025 jamiegoode 977 Views Blaufrankisch

This is a really interesting Hungarian red, made from Kekfrankos, aka Blaufränkisch. The name translates as Hungarian Blue (it’s French)

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Highlights Latest South Africa 

Highlights: Sadie Family Wines Twiswind 2024 & Sonvang 2024

October 2, 2025October 2, 2025 Treve Ring 2060 Views field blends, swartland

These two newest Sadie Family wines are 20+ years in the making. Eben Sadie started the project back in 2002,

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Highlights Latest South Africa Sparkling wine 

Highlights: Graham Beck Cuvée Clive 2018 Western Cape, South Africa

September 29, 2025September 29, 2025 jamiegoode 1241 Views

Website: https://grahambeck.com/ Tried this tonight, and was really impressed. I’ve tried previous vintages, but this was quite striking in its

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Chile Features Latest 

Garcés Silva is making some lovely wines in Chile’s Leyda Valley, mostly under the Amayna label

February 13, 2026February 13, 2026 jamiegoode

Website: https://vgs.cl/en/ Garcés Silva is a winery whose name isn’t well known, but they are important in the story of

La Grange d’Ernest, an exciting new producer from Savoie
Features France Latest 

La Grange d’Ernest, an exciting new producer from Savoie

February 11, 2026February 11, 2026 jamiegoode
Impressive, well priced wines from Grochau Cellars/GC Wines from Oregon’s Willamette Valley
Features Latest Oregon 

Impressive, well priced wines from Grochau Cellars/GC Wines from Oregon’s Willamette Valley

February 8, 2026February 8, 2026 jamiegoode
Boekenhoutskloof: a vertical of Semillon, and the 2023 new releases from this top South African winery
Features Latest South Africa 

Boekenhoutskloof: a vertical of Semillon, and the 2023 new releases from this top South African winery

February 6, 2026February 6, 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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