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Highlights Italy Latest 

Highlights: Pasqua Hey French: You Could Have Made This But You Didn’t

December 6, 2023December 27, 2023 jamiegoode 8391 Views

This is something a bit different. It’s a non-vintage blend, but it’s high end. And it has an arty label.

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Highlights Italy Latest 

Highlights: Castello di Fonterutoli Badiòla Chianti Classico Gran Selezione 2017 Italy

December 1, 2023 jamiegoode 3538 Views Chianti Classico

The new category of Gran Selezzione has been a real boost to Chianti Classico, and here’s a really good example,

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Highlights Latest South Africa 

Highlights: Vulpes The Cape Fox Chenin Blanc 2022 Swartland, South Africa

November 26, 2023 jamiegoode 7172 Views Chenin Blanc, swartland

This is a new project from winemaker Nuschka de Vos. Her start in the wine industry was a good one:

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Australia Highlights Latest 

Highlights: Joshua Cooper Shay’s Flat Cabernet Sauvignon 2021, Pyrenees, Victoria, Australia

November 22, 2023 Treve Ring 4270 Views biodynamic, Pyrenees

Joshua Cooper grew up in the vineyards with parents Alan and Nelly Cooper, and their pioneering biodynamic Cobaw Ridge winery

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Highlights Latest South Africa 

Highlights: two Cap Classiques from Pieter Ferreira

November 18, 2023November 18, 2023 jamiegoode 3566 Views

Pieter Ferreira is so well known for his work at Graham Beck, and for promoting the whole category of Cap

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Highlights Latest Portugal 

Highlights: three vintages of the Cedro do Noval Branco

November 9, 2023November 9, 2023 jamiegoode 4253 Views Douro

When it comes to table wines, we tend to think of the Douro as a red wine region, but it’s

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Highlights Latest Spain 

Highlights: Barbadillo Manzanilla Pastora Pasada en Rama NV

November 6, 2023 jamiegoode 3087 Views manzanilla, sherry

Found this hidden in the racks: an en rama Manzanilla bottled in 2021, which would have been intended for consumption

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England Highlights Latest 

Highlights: Fractal Sequence 001 NV England

October 29, 2023 jamiegoode 5253 Views

This is an interesting project. It’s a collaboration between William Lowe (who is a master of wine) and Nick Lane

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Canada Highlights Latest 

Highlights: Three from the Naramata Bench, Okanagan, Canada

October 25, 2023November 2, 2023 jamiegoode 4534 Views

Website: https://naramatabench.com/ The Okanagan Valley in Canada’s British Colombia is an important wine region. Five hours drive from Vancouver, up

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Highlights Latest Loire Regions 

Highlights: the first evening in Sancerre begins with two great bottles

October 11, 2023October 11, 2023 jamiegoode 4535 Views pinot noir, Sancerre, Sauvignon Blanc

I’m in the Centre Loire region of France for a few days, beginning in Sancerre. Arriving quite late, there was

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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
Features Germany Latest 

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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