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Highlights Latest Portugal 

Highlights: Adega do Vulcão Ameixâmbar Arinto de Açores 2018 Portugal

January 12, 2023 jamiegoode 2744 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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Champagne Highlights Latest 

Highlights: Champagne Lallier Réflexion R.019

January 6, 2023January 6, 2023 jamiegoode 5312 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 6111 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 12369 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 4467 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 4208 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 6667 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 3813 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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Highlights Loire 

Highlights: Le Clos Baudoin Aigle Blanc ‘Vin de Tris’ 1989 Vouvray, France

December 15, 2022March 7, 2023 jamiegoode 3484 Views Vouvray

I bought this bottle years ago from a wine shop in South Kensington called La Vigneronne (now Handford Wines occupy

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Highlights Jura 

Highlights: Domaine du Pélican Savagnin Ouillé 2019 Arbois, Jura, France

December 12, 2022March 7, 2023 jamiegoode 4971 Views Savagnin

Guillaume d’Angerville, from Volnay in Bourgogne, established Domaine du Pélican in 2012 after he was seduced by a bottle of

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Exploring Bolgheri through the lens of one of its top estates: Ornellaia masterclass with Denise Cosentino
Features Italy Latest Profiles 

Exploring Bolgheri through the lens of one of its top estates: Ornellaia masterclass with Denise Cosentino

March 8, 2026March 8, 2026 jamiegoode

Website: https://www.ornellaia.com/en/ Denise is winemaker at Ornellaia, so it was great to have a chance to do a vertical of

Australia’s old vine heritage – a masterclass showing some Aussie classics
Australia Features Latest Regions 

Australia’s old vine heritage – a masterclass showing some Aussie classics

March 8, 2026March 8, 2026 jamiegoode
A beautiful dinner at Lakeview Palace in Macau, matching Chinese food with some top Chinese wines
China Features Food and wine Latest 

A beautiful dinner at Lakeview Palace in Macau, matching Chinese food with some top Chinese wines

March 6, 2026March 6, 2026 jamiegoode
Another airline lounge raid, 12 wines tried
Features Latest 

Another airline lounge raid, 12 wines tried

March 4, 2026March 4, 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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