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England Highlights Latest 

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

April 17, 2022April 17, 2022 jamiegoode 1071 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 1221 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 1100 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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Chile Highlights 

Highlights: A País Pair from southern Chile’s Carter Mollenhauer

April 4, 2022May 15, 2022 Treve Ring 1070 Views Itata, Old vines, País

Karine and her husband, Edgar Mollenhauer run their family winery in the Maule, making a few small-production wines from indigenous

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Highlights South Africa 

Highlights: Natte Valleij P.O.W. 2017, WO Simonsberg-Paarl, South Africa

March 25, 2022May 15, 2022 Treve Ring 1069 Views

Natte Valleij’s old cape Dutch buildings have seen a lot of history, including housing a prisoner of war who was

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England Highlights 

Highlights: two top whites from Tillingham, Sussex, England

March 15, 2022May 15, 2022 jamiegoode 1004 Views

I’ve written about Tillingham, one of the UK’s most exciting wineries, before on this site. Here are notes on two

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Highlights Loire 

Highlights: Thierry Germain Clos de L’Echelier 2019 Saumur Champigny

March 7, 2022May 15, 2022 jamiegoode 1168 Views

This is impressive: it’s a varietal Cabernet Franc from a 2.5 hectare clos, surrounded by a 300 year old wall.

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Australia Highlights 

Highlights: Wynns Coonawarra Estate ‘Black Label’ 2019

February 24, 2022May 15, 2022 jamiegoode 1413 Views

This Australian classic is now in its 64th vintage. It was first made in 1954 when Australia’s wine industry was

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Highlights Hungary Latest 

Highlights: Balassa Szent Tamás Furmint 2019 Tokaji, Hungary

February 21, 2022February 21, 2022 jamiegoode 861 Views Furmint

Furmint is an ancient grape with at least 450 years of history. Hungary has most of it, with almost 4000

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Highlights Rhone 

Highlights: Domaine des Miquettes Saint Joseph 2020 Northern Rhône

February 20, 2022May 15, 2022 jamiegoode 1211 Views

Paul Estève and Crystelle Vareille are the people behind Domaine des Miquettes, a small domaine in Saint Joseph with 2.6

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The wines of David & Nadia, Swartland, South Africa
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The wines of David & Nadia, Swartland, South Africa

August 16, 2022August 16, 2022 jamiegoode

Website: https://davidnadia.com/ David and Nadia Sadie studied together and then got married in 2009. They both began working for different

Penn Croft and Itasca Wines: an interesting Hampshire contract winery (Thorrington Mill, Wraxhall, Missing Gate) also making their own wines
England Features Profiles Regions 

Penn Croft and Itasca Wines: an interesting Hampshire contract winery (Thorrington Mill, Wraxhall, Missing Gate) also making their own wines

August 14, 2022August 16, 2022 jamiegoode
Keep Wines: small batch Californian elegance
California Features Latest Regions 

Keep Wines: small batch Californian elegance

August 12, 2022August 14, 2022 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.

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