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Highlights New Zealand 

Highlights: two lovely Kiwi Pinot Noirs from Fromm and Neudorf

September 7, 2022September 13, 2022 jamiegoode 3968 Views pinot noir

Here are two New Zealand Pinot Noirs that offered a lot of pleasure opened a couple of years after release.

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Austria Highlights 

Highlight: Birgit Eichinger Ried Heiligenstein Erste Lage (1ÖTW) Riesling 2019

August 28, 2022November 1, 2022 jamiegoode 4455 Views Riesling

Birgit Eichinger Ried Zöbinger Heiligenstein Erste Lage (1ÖTW) Riesling 2019 Kamptal, Austria13% alcohol. Intensely limey nose with some sweet citrus

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Germany Highlights 

Highlights: two from Karl Haidle, Würrtemberg, Germany

August 22, 2022November 1, 2022 jamiegoode 4207 Views Blaufrankisch

Karl Haidle was founded in 1949 by the famous gymnast of the same name. It’s now in the hands of

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Alsace Highlights Latest 

Highlights: Kumpf & Meyer Riesling Westerberg Perpétuel 15/18/19 Alsace

August 20, 2022 jamiegoode 6753 Views Riesling

This is a new Alsace domaine to me. It was created back in the 1990s when Philippe Meyer and Sophie

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Highlights Latest Spain 

Highlight : Las Moradas de San Martin Libro Once Las Luces 2011, Sierra de Gredos, Spain

August 19, 2022August 25, 2022 Treve Ring 4536 Views Garnacha, granite, Gredos, Grenache, old vine

Las Moradas de San Martin sits at a height of 870m above sea level, on the fringes of the Sierra

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England Highlights Latest 

Highlights: Harrow & Hope Blanc de Blancs 2017 England

August 4, 2022August 6, 2022 jamiegoode 4038 Views Sparkling wine

Website: Harrow & Hope Harrow & Hope Blanc de Blancs 2017 England12% alcohol. This is from chalk and flint soils

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Argentina Features Highlights 

Exploring Argentina’s diversity and quality, with Paz Levinson

July 31, 2022October 6, 2023 Lisse Garnett 8673 Views

There isn’t enough Argentine wine on our lists says Argentinian Sommelier Paz Levinson. She came to London to show a

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Highlights Rhone 

Highlights: Chapoutier Saint-Pierre Cornas 2019 Northern Rhône, France

July 19, 2022August 3, 2022 jamiegoode 4108 Views cornas, syrah

A real treat to try this new Cornas lieu dit from Chapoutier. It’s brilliant. There’s some sternness and structure, but

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England Highlights 

Highlights: Westwell Wicken Foy NV England

July 16, 2022August 3, 2022 jamiegoode 4953 Views Sparkling wine

This is a new traditional method sparkling wine from innovative low-intervention winegrower Westwell, based in Kent, England Westwell Wicken Foy

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Highlights Spain 

Highlights: Hidalgo Manzanilla La Gitana En Rama (Spring 2022 release)

July 14, 2022August 3, 2022 jamiegoode 4471 Views sherry

This wine comes from Hidalgo’s famous El Cuadrado pago, which is the highest part of Balbaina Alta. It’s a really

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Exploring Vinho Verde: Covela, who helped lead the region’s charge to more serious wine styles
Features Latest Portugal 

Exploring Vinho Verde: Covela, who helped lead the region’s charge to more serious wine styles

June 5, 2026June 5, 2026 jamiegoode

Website: https://covela.pt/en/ I’m back at Covela, after a 10 year gap. And it’s nice to meet with Rui Cunha, who

Bordeaux 2025 wines en primeur
Bordeaux Features Latest Regions 

A quick appraisal of the 2025 vintage in Bordeaux

June 3, 2026 jamiegoode
Jean Baptiste Hardy, making beautiful wines in Muscadet
Features Latest Loire 

Jean Baptiste Hardy, making beautiful wines in Muscadet

June 3, 2026June 3, 2026 jamiegoode
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Features Latest Portugal Regions 

Exploring Vinho Verde: visiting star producer Anselmo Mendes

June 2, 2026June 2, 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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