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Highlights New Zealand 

Highlights: Black Estate Netherwood Pinot Noir 2014 Waipara Valley, New Zealand

January 4, 2021January 18, 2021 jamiegoode 581 Views North Canterbury, pinot noir

This is a deeply impressive New Zealand Pinot Noir, from Black Estate. Winemaking is pretty natural here, and the house

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Highlights Latest Spain 

Highlights: La Rioja Alta Viña Ardanza Reserva Especial 2001 Rioja, Spain

January 3, 2021 jamiegoode 562 Views Rioja

This is a deeply impressive Rioja Reserva from La Rioja Alta, which is ageing beautifully. 80% Tempranillo and 20% Garnacha.

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Highlights Latest Loire 

Highlights: Domaine Bonnigal-Bodet Chenin ‘Le Clocher’ 2018 Touraine Amboise, Loire

January 1, 2021January 1, 2021 jamiegoode 472 Views Chenin Blanc

Domaine Bonnigal-Bodet is Jean Baptiste Bonnigal and Stéphane Bodet, who jointly took over Bonnigal’s fourth-generation family domaine in Amboise together

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Highlights Latest Spain 

Highlights:Familia Nin-Ortiz Selma de Nin Finca La Sinia 2016 Vi de Tabula, Spain

December 28, 2020December 28, 2020 jamiegoode 561 Views

Nin-Ortiz is Ester Nin (viticulturist for Daphne Glorian’s Clos Erasmus) and Carles Ortiz (grape grower), who met and merged there

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Champagne Highlights Latest 

Highlights: Champagne Robert Moncuit Blanc de Blancs Le Mesnil Sur Oger Grand Cru 2012

December 23, 2020 jamiegoode 493 Views

Moncuit farm without herbicides and pesticides, and are organic but not certified. The base wine for this vintage 2012 is

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Highlights Latest South Africa 

Highlights: Charla Haasbroek Cabernet Sauvignon 2017 Malgas, South Africa

December 20, 2020December 23, 2020 jamiegoode 734 Views Cabernet Sauvignon

Charla Haasbroek is the winemaker at Sijnn in the Cape South Coast region of Malgas. It’s a special place, pioneered

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Highlights Latest Portugal 

Highlights: El3mento 2017 Douro, Portugal

December 18, 2020December 18, 2020 jamiegoode 500 Views Douro

El3mento is a joint venture between Niepoort winemaker Luís Pedro and Carmelo Peña (who makes wines in the Canary Islands

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Austria Highlights 

Highlights: Heinrich Graue Freyheit 2017 Austria

December 15, 2020December 23, 2020 jamiegoode 555 Views Natural wine, orange wine

This remarkable wine, in a clay bottle, is a blend of Grauburgunder (Pinot Gris) from crystalline schist and quartz schist

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Beer Highlights 

Highlights: [beer] Beavertown Tempest The Chariot Bretted Pilsner

December 13, 2020December 23, 2020 jamiegoode 630 Views

This is a remarkable beer, with a connection to wine. From London craft brewery Beavertown it is a pilsner that

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Highlights Portugal 

Highlights: Cortes de Cima Incógnito 2013 Alentejo, Portugal

December 6, 2020December 23, 2020 jamiegoode 1040 Views Alentejo, syrah

There’s an interesting story behind this wine. Incógnito is the famous Syrah made by Cortes de Cima, first produced in

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Why alternative packaging for wine has struggled
Features Wine Science 

Why alternative packaging for wine has struggled

January 22, 2021January 22, 2021 jamiegoode

Jamie Goode argues that we are unconsciously wedded to the wine bottle. There is a recurring cycle in the world

Família Nin-Ortiz: terroir-driven wines from Priorat in Spain
Features Latest Profiles Spain 

Família Nin-Ortiz: terroir-driven wines from Priorat in Spain

January 16, 2021January 18, 2021 jamiegoode
A celebration of the underdog vintages: Burgundy 2017 and Barolo 2014
Burgundy Features Italy 

A celebration of the underdog vintages: Burgundy 2017 and Barolo 2014

January 14, 2021January 14, 2021 jamiegoode
Cartier, Cahors, natural wine and dead Brit bits
Features France 

Cartier, Cahors, natural wine and dead Brit bits

January 13, 2021January 18, 2021 Lisse Garnett

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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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