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Smith Madrone Cabernet Sauvignon
California Highlights 

Highlights: Smith-Madrone Cabernet Sauvignon 2015 Napa Valley

April 29, 2021June 8, 2021 jamiegoode 5430 Views Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa

This is brilliant. Napa is often knocked for its excess: Cabernet Sauvignon wines made from grapes picked too late, spoofed

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Highlights Washington State 

Highlights: De Lille Cellars Chaleur Blanc 2018 Washington State, USA

April 26, 2021August 1, 2021 jamiegoode 3929 Views

DeLille Cellars is one of Washington State’s top wineries. I visited back in 2015 (see my report here). Today I

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Rathfinny Blanc de Blancs
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Highlights: Rathfinny Blanc de Blancs Brut 2017 Sussex, England

April 24, 2021April 26, 2021 jamiegoode 4126 Views Chardonnay, Sparkling wine

Rathfinny are a significant new-ish entry into the English sparkling wine scene, with their vines first going into the ground

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Highlights: Jones On the QT Bin 27 Orange Macabeu 2020 France

April 23, 2021 jamiegoode 4685 Views

Jones On the QT Bin 27 Orange Macabeu 2020 FranceJust 450 bottles of this wine made. It’s from a 60

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Highlights Spain 

Highlights: Cas a Balaguer Salicornio Moscatel 2020 Alicante, Spain

April 22, 2021August 1, 2021 jamiegoode 5748 Views Natural wine

Casa Balaguer-Vinessens is the winery responsible for this expressive skin-ferment Moscatel from Alicante in the south of Spain. It formed

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Highlights : Vodopivec Vitovska 2017

April 20, 2021August 1, 2021 Treve Ring 6780 Views Amphora, italy, orange wine

Paolo Vodopivec owns this organically and biodynamically farmed Carso estate, on the border with Slovenia, and just north of Trieste.

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Escala Humana Livverá Bonarda 2018 Uco Valley, Mendoza, Argentina

April 15, 2021 jamiegoode 4694 Views bonarda

Escala Humana is the project of Germán Masera, who makes wine for Matías Michelini as his day job. This Bonarda

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Chile Highlights 

Highlights: Viña Leyda Syrah Reserva 2019 Leyda, Chile

April 13, 2021August 1, 2021 jamiegoode 6064 Views syrah

I visited Viña Leyda back in 2010, and at the time I described them as one of Chile’s most exciting

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Highlights South Africa 

Highlights: Mullineux Iron Syrah 2018 Swartland, South Africa

April 8, 2021June 8, 2021 jamiegoode 5743 Views swartland, syrah

Mullineux is one of the Swartland’s most important wineries. In 2011 they launched two terroir-specific Syrahs: Schist and Granite. In

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Burgundy Highlights 

Highlights: Domaine Dureuil-Janthial Rully 2018 Bourgogne, France

April 7, 2021June 8, 2021 jamiegoode 6920 Views Chardonnay

So impressed by this. One of the few benefits from rising prices in Burgundy is that people are beginning to

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Visiting Villa Melnik, one of Bulgaria’s leading wineries, in the Struma Valley
Bulgaria Features Latest Regions 

Visiting Villa Melnik, one of Bulgaria’s leading wineries, in the Struma Valley

December 22, 2025December 22, 2025 jamiegoode

Villa Melnik is a family-owned winery in Harsovo, in southwest Bulgaria, in the Struma River Valley of the Thracian Valley.

Kumeu River, New Zealand’s most celebrated Chardonnay producer – comparing 2024 and 2014 vintages
Features Latest New Zealand Regions 

Kumeu River, New Zealand’s most celebrated Chardonnay producer – comparing 2024 and 2014 vintages

December 21, 2025December 21, 2025 jamiegoode
Anthill Farms Winery: Californian elegance
California Features Latest 

Anthill Farms Winery: Californian elegance

December 20, 2025 jamiegoode
The wine aisles at Lidl are depressing if you care about the wine industry
Features Latest 

The wine aisles at Lidl are depressing if you care about the wine industry

December 20, 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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