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Highlights Latest New Zealand 

Highlights: Craggy Range Te Muna Road Pinot Noir 2011 Martinborough, New Zealand – tasted 10 years apart

January 15, 2023January 15, 2023 jamiegoode 4041 Views pinot noir

I bought a six-pack of this Kiwi Pinot Noir in 2013 from Majestic Wine for £18 a bottle. I cracked

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Highlights Latest Spain 

Highlights: Pícaro del Aguilar Clarete Vinhas Velhas 2016 Ribera del Duero, Spain

January 13, 2023January 13, 2023 jamiegoode 3419 Views Ribero del Duero

This is a really intriguing wine that I’ve fallen in love with, and which I buy. It’s the in-between land

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Highlights Latest Portugal 

Highlights: Adega do Vulcão Ameixâmbar Arinto de Açores 2018 Portugal

January 12, 2023 jamiegoode 2350 Views Açores

Adega do Vulcão Ameixâmbar Arinto de Açores 2018 Portugal13% alcohol. This is the special Azores variety named Arinto that’s different

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Highlights: Champagne Lallier Réflexion R.019

January 6, 2023January 6, 2023 jamiegoode 4828 Views

Website: https://champagne-lallier.com/en/ Lallier recently became the first Italian-owned Champagne house when they were bought by Campari. They also hired Dominique

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Champagne France Highlights Latest Sparkling wine 

Memorable Champagnes of 2022

January 3, 2023January 3, 2023 Treve Ring 5402 Views

Treve Ring and Jamie Goode pick their memorable Champagnes of 2022. First up, it’s Ring’s selections, and then Goode’s. It

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Highlights South Africa TOP STORIES 

Vin de Constance 2018 – the new release of this famous sweet wine

January 3, 2023January 3, 2023 jamiegoode 11279 Views

Back in the 1980s South African winery Klein Constantia revived a piece of vinous history. In the 18th and 19th

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Highlights Italy 

Highlights: two from Monterosola, an organic Tuscan winery

December 27, 2022March 7, 2023 jamiegoode 4071 Views Tuscany

This is an organically farmed estate of some 25 hectares located between Bolgheri on the coast and Chianti, in Tuscany.

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Highlights Latest Loire 

Highlights: Frédéric Mabileau Les Roullères 2019 Saint-Nicholas-de-Bourgeuil

December 26, 2022December 26, 2022 jamiegoode 3787 Views cabernet franc

Really impressed by this Loire Cabernet Franc, which delivers a lot of pleasure without costing a fortune. Frédéric Mabileau Les

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Highlights Italy 

Highlights: Waitrose Loved and Found Albarossa 2020 Piedmont, Italy

December 24, 2022October 12, 2025 jamiegoode 5921 Views Piemonte

This is interesting. It’s part of the affordable Loved and Found range from Waitrose, focusing on lesser known varities and

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England Highlights 

Highlights: Ridgeview Pinot Noir Sparkling Red Reserve NV England

December 16, 2022March 7, 2023 jamiegoode 3377 Views Sparkling wine

This is the first time I’ve tried a red sparkling wine from the UK, and it’s really good. Inspired by

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Espera: brilliant natural-leaning wines from Lisboa, Portugal
Features Latest Portugal 

Espera: brilliant natural-leaning wines from Lisboa, Portugal

October 15, 2025 jamiegoode

Website: https://www.esperawines.pt/en-gb Espera is a natural wine producer based in Alcobaça, in the Lisboa wine region of Portugal. Soils here

La Tour Melas, a Greek first growth: tasting the wines over lunch at Gaia, Mayfair
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La Tour Melas, a Greek first growth: tasting the wines over lunch at Gaia, Mayfair

October 15, 2025 jamiegoode
The wines of Júlio Bastos/Dona Maria, from Portugal’s Alentejo
Features Latest Portugal 

The wines of Júlio Bastos/Dona Maria, from Portugal’s Alentejo

October 12, 2025October 13, 2025 jamiegoode
Leading English sparkling wine producer Nyetimber are almost through with their vintage, and it’s one of the earliest and best ever
England Features Latest 

Leading English sparkling wine producer Nyetimber are almost through with their vintage, and it’s one of the earliest and best ever

October 10, 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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