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Australia Highlights 

Highlights: the Ovitelli wines from Yangarra in Australia’s McLaren Vale

June 4, 2022July 10, 2022 jamiegoode 4092 Views

These are two very impressive wines made in 675 litre ceramic eggs by biodynamic winery Yangarra in the McLaren Vale.

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Highlights Portugal 

Highlights: A&D Wines Quinta de Santa Teresa Avesso 2020, Baião, Vinho Verde, Portugal

June 1, 2022August 3, 2022 Treve Ring 3453 Views Avesso, organic, Vinho Verde

A&D Wines is a family estate, run by Alexandre and Dialina Gomes, located in Vinho Verde’s sub region Baião, on

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Champagne Highlights 

Highlights: Champagne Beaumont des Crayères Fleur de Prestige Blanc Millésime Brut 2009

May 31, 2022July 10, 2022 jamiegoode 3983 Views

Champagne Beaumont des Crayères Fleur de Prestige Blanc Millésime Brut 2009 France12% alcohol£39.95 TannersBeaumont des Crayères is a small cooperative

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Highlights: Frapin Cognac Millesime 30 Years Old 1989

May 30, 2022May 30, 2022 jamiegoode 3769 Views cognac, spirits

Website: https://www.cognac-frapin.com/en/our-cognacs/1989-2/ Frapin Cognac Millesime 30 Years Old 198940.3% alcohol100% Ugni Blanc located in the western part of Frapin’s vineyards,

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Highlights: two from Digby Fine English

May 22, 2022May 22, 2022 jamiegoode 3884 Views

Digby Fine English is tilting at the top. This is a negociant house (although they’ve recently bought the 4 hectare

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Three stunners from Piemonte: Conterno Nervi, G Mascarello and Roagna

May 7, 2022 jamiegoode 3835 Views Nebbiolo, piedmont

I’m becoming a bit of a Nebbiolo nerd. These three were drunk at a couple of dinners on a recent

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Highlights South Africa 

Highlights: Wolf & Woman Chenin Blanc 2020 Swartland, South Africa

May 6, 2022May 6, 2022 jamiegoode 3732 Views Chenin Blanc, swartland

It’s amazing how many serious expressions of Chenin are coming out of the Swartland these days. I know the scene

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Highlights: two wines from Penn Croft, a regeneratively farmed vineyard in Hampshire

April 17, 2022April 17, 2022 jamiegoode 4995 Views

Website: https://penncroftvineyards.com/pages/sustainability Simon Porter is a farmer, and owner of the Penn Croft winery in Hampshire. He’s been farming regeneratively

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Highlights South Africa 

Highlights: David & Nadia Grenache 2018 Swartland, South Africa

April 10, 2022May 15, 2022 jamiegoode 4233 Views

Grenache has a good future in the Western Cape, I reckon. David and Nadia Sadie are making some really impressive

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Highlights Italy Latest 

Highlights: Cantina Arceto Migliolungo Lambrusco NV, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

April 9, 2022April 11, 2022 Treve Ring 4009 Views Emilia-Romagna, Lambrusco, Sparkling wine

More than 40 different ancient, traditional red grapes go into this Lambrusco, with 21 of these different varieties of Lambrusco

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Concerto, the re-born super Tuscan wine from Fonterutoli
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Concerto, the re-born super Tuscan wine from Fonterutoli

October 15, 2025October 15, 2025 jamiegoode

Website: https://uk.mazzei.it/ The Mazzei family are a Tuscan powerhouse. They have significant vineyards in Chianti Classico, and as well as

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

Espera: brilliant natural-leaning wines from Lisboa, Portugal

October 15, 2025 jamiegoode
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, 2025October 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

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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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