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  • Lunch at Treadwell (Niagara, Canada) with some lovely wines: Ulysses Colin, La Rogerie and Comando G
  • Canada’s Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys (11) Lake Breeze
  • Restaurants: Fat Rabbit, St Catharines, Niagara – so good I went twice in a week
  • The concept of island wines is now firmly established: a tasting with Pascaline Lepeltier
  • Alentejeo Spotlight: on the road in Manchester, Edinburgh and Bristol with some interesting wines from this Portuguese region
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England Highlights 

Highlights: Lyme Bay Winery Pinot Noir 2020 Essex, England

January 18, 2022February 11, 2022 jamiegoode 6246 Views pinot noir

This is an impressive Pinot Noir showing the still wine potential of the Crouch Valley in Essex. It’s sourced from

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Highlights Latest Spain 

Highlights: El Hombre Bala 2015 Vinos de Madrid, Spain

January 9, 2022 jamiegoode 5415 Views Grenache

Gotta love infusion-style Garnacha from Gredos! This is a good one. I bought this bottle a few years ago at

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Highlights Italy 

Highlights: Viticoltori de Conciliis Donnaluna Aglianico 2018 Paestum IGP, Italy

January 6, 2022February 11, 2022 jamiegoode 4822 Views aglianico

Viticoltori de Conciliis is based in southern Campania and was founded as a winery in 1996. This is when three

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Highlights Spain 

Highlight: Bodegas Tradicion Amontillado 30 Years VQRS

January 2, 2022February 11, 2022 jamiegoode 4757 Views sherry

I visited Bodegas Tradicion a couple of years ago. It’s one of the very best bodegas in Jerez. Began the

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Highlights Spain 

Highlights: A duo of striking reds from 4Kilos

December 29, 2021February 11, 2022 Treve Ring 5298 Views biodynamic, islands, Mallorca, organic

A kilo is old Spanish slang for one million Pesetas, Spain’s former currency. 4 Kilos founders Francesc Grimalt and Sergio

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Highlights Portugal 

Highlights: Niepoort Vintage Port 2003

December 26, 2021February 11, 2022 jamiegoode 5289 Views Port

This is a Vintage Port that I tried early on in its life, and then went an bought a bottle

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Champagne Highlights 

Highlights: Champagne Taittinger Prélude Grands Crus NV France

December 22, 2021January 9, 2022 jamiegoode 4644 Views

Taittinger have 288 hectares of their own vineyards in Champagne, and supplement this with fruit they buy. They’re very well

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Highlights Italy 

Highlights: Castello Banfi Rosso di Montalcino 2019 Toscana, Italy

December 18, 2021January 9, 2022 jamiegoode 6009 Views Sangiovese, Tuscany

Banfi are the biggest players by far in Tuscany’s Montalcino region, with 950 hectares under vine. But this isn’t an

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California Highlights Latest 

Highlight: Arquils Maestro 2019 California

December 14, 2021December 14, 2021 jamiegoode 5562 Views

https://arquils.com/ Carlos Caruncho’s story is an interesting one. He was born in Cuba, attended university in Russia, and then defected.

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Highlights New Zealand 

Highlights: three Chardonnays from Neudorf, Nelson, New Zealand

December 7, 2021December 14, 2021 jamiegoode 7211 Views Chardonnay, Nelson

These three new releases from Neudorf are exceptional. They are one of the most highly-rated Chardonnay producers in New Zealand,

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Canada’s Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys (11) Lake Breeze
Canada Features Latest 

Canada’s Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys (11) Lake Breeze

June 24, 2026June 24, 2026 jamiegoode

Website: https://www.lakebreeze.ca/ Lake Breeze is on the Naramata Bench, and since 2021 has been owned by the McIntyre family. The

The concept of island wines is now firmly established: a tasting with Pascaline Lepeltier
Features Latest Spain 

The concept of island wines is now firmly established: a tasting with Pascaline Lepeltier

June 23, 2026June 23, 2026 jamiegoode
Alentejeo Spotlight: on the road in Manchester, Edinburgh and Bristol with some interesting wines from this Portuguese region
Features Latest Portugal Regions 

Alentejeo Spotlight: on the road in Manchester, Edinburgh and Bristol with some interesting wines from this Portuguese region

June 23, 2026June 23, 2026 jamiegoode
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Features Food and wine Latest 

Yuki Bar revisited: one of London’s best spots for natural wine

June 22, 2026June 22, 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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