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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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Highlights South Africa 

Highlights: Mullineux Iron Syrah 2018 Swartland, South Africa

April 8, 2021June 8, 2021 jamiegoode 6260 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 7407 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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France Highlights 

Highlights: high-end wines from Calmel & Joseph

April 5, 2021April 7, 2021 jamiegoode 5602 Views Languedoc

Calmel & Joseph are an impressive, forward-thinking winery in France’s Languedoc region. They have a large domaine of 160 hectares

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California Highlights 

Highlights: I Brand & Family Cabernet Franc Bayly Ranch 2017 Paicenes, California

March 28, 2021June 8, 2021 jamiegoode 5851 Views cabernet franc

Website: https://www.ibrandwinery.com/ I don’t know much about winemaker Ian Brand’s project in California, but I saw this wine, bought it,

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Highlights Italy 

Highlights: Pietradolce Archineri Etna Rosso 2017 Sicily, Italy

March 25, 2021June 8, 2021 jamiegoode 6320 Views Sicily

Pietradolce was established in 2005 (first vintage 2009), and they have 11 hectares of vines planted in high altitude sites

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Highlights Italy 

Highlights: Querciabella Chianti Classico 2017 Tuscany, Italy

March 24, 2021June 8, 2021 jamiegoode 6565 Views chianti

This is Sangiovese from Greve, Radda and Gaiole, biodynamically farmed, made by Querciabella. The Greve vineyards are sandstone and sand

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Highlights Italy 

Highlights: La Stoppa Trebbiolo Rosso 2018 Vino Rosso, Italy

March 22, 2021June 8, 2021 jamiegoode 6658 Views Natural wine

How do you assess a wine like this Trebbiolo from La Stoppa? If you are a techno winemaker, you reject

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Highlights Spain 

Highlights: Bodega Lanzaga Corriente 2017 Rioja

March 22, 2021 jamiegoode 6545 Views Rioja

Telmo Rodriguez is well known for his wine brand that covers many of Spain’s top regions. He returned to Rioja

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Champagne Highlights 

Highlights: Champagne Bruno Paillard Première Cuvée NV

March 21, 2021 jamiegoode 4771 Views

This is the new non-vintage wine from Champagne Bruno Paillard. It’s an Extra Brut (below 6 g/litre dosage), and is

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Chile Highlights 

Highlights: Calco Chardonnay 2018 Limarí, Chile

March 18, 2021March 18, 2021 jamiegoode 4671 Views Chardonnay

Calco Chardonnay 2018 Limarí, Chile13.5% alcohol. From De Martino in collaboration with Ben Henshaw and Alvaro Ribalta of Indigo Wines

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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.

This is an explanation of what an anorak is.

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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