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England Highlights 

Highlights: the white and rosé Nyetimber 1086 wines, icon-level English sparkling wines

March 29, 2024May 21, 2024 jamiegoode 3435 Views Sparkling wine

Nyetimber’s presige cuvées are named 1086, referencing the date of the Nyetimber manor’s inclusion in the Doomsday book. They are

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Highlights: Prophet’s Rock Home Vineyard Pinot Noir 2021 Central Otago, New Zealand

March 26, 2024 jamiegoode 5912 Views pinot noir

Website: https://www.prophetsrock.co.nz/ Prophet’s Rock Home Vineyard Pinot Noir 2021 Central Otago, New Zealand13.5% alcohol. Since 2005, Paul Pujol has been

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France Highlights Romania 

Highlights: two affordable orange wines from Bertrand and Cramele Recas

March 18, 2024May 21, 2024 jamiegoode 4652 Views Languedoc, orange wine

Tried these two orange wines side by side. It’s interesting to see this category of skin-fermented whites (often called orange

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Champagne Highlights 

Highlights: Champagne Lanson NV becomes Le Black Création, and this is editon 258

March 9, 2024May 21, 2024 jamiegoode 7629 Views

This is the second release of Le Black Création, following on from 257. It’s the re-badged black label non-vintage from

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England Highlights 

Highlights: Westwell Pinot Meunier Multi Vintage, England

March 9, 2024May 21, 2024 jamiegoode 3365 Views Pinot Meunier, Sparkling wine

This is an interesting project. It’s a traditional method sparkling wine made with no additions at all. This comes from

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Champagne Highlights 

Highlights: Champagne Charles Heidsieck Brut Réserve NV

March 7, 2024May 21, 2024 jamiegoode 3939 Views

Had a few glasses of this the other evening at a function, and once again came away impressed. Champagne Charles

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Champagne Highlights 

Highlights: Champagne Billecart Salmon 2016 France

March 1, 2024May 21, 2024 jamiegoode 3921 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 4494 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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Champagne Highlights Latest 

Highlights: Champagne Drappier Clarevallis

February 25, 2024February 25, 2024 jamiegoode 4510 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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Beaujolais Highlights Latest 

Highlights: Domaine des Chopins Beaujolais Villages 2022

February 13, 2024 jamiegoode 3967 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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Notes from a remarkable long lunch at Gaveto in Matosinhos, Portugal, with Niepoort, Transmission and friends, plus some amazing Champagnes
Champagne Features Latest Portugal Regions 

Notes from a remarkable long lunch at Gaveto in Matosinhos, Portugal, with Niepoort, Transmission and friends, plus some amazing Champagnes

September 16, 2026 jamiegoode

As far as lunches go, this was one of the best I’ve had in recent years, held at the remarkable

Going to the football? Like good wine? A tasting trip through Islington’s wine bars pairs well with tickets for a north London matchday
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Going to the football? Like good wine? A tasting trip through Islington’s wine bars pairs well with tickets for a north London matchday

September 14, 2026 jamiegoode
Pfalz Riesling: tasting through some of the top examples at the VDP tasting 2026
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Pfalz Riesling: tasting through some of the top examples at the VDP tasting 2026

September 14, 2026September 14, 2026 jamiegoode
the central dozen - 12 central otago pinot noirs
Features Latest New Zealand Regions 

The Central Dozen, an important exercise in telling the contemporary story of Central Otago Pinot Noir through a curated selection of 12 bottles

September 12, 2026September 12, 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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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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