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Highlights: Niki Hills Winery Zweigeltrebe 2022 Hokkaido, Japan

August 7, 2025August 7, 2025 jamiegoode 1079 Views

Niki Hills is an interesting winery based in Hokkaido, the northernmost island of Japan, which is turning out to be

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Highlights Latest Uruguay 

Highlights: Pablo Fallabrino Sagitta Nebbiolo Grand Reserve 2020 Uruguay

August 5, 2025August 5, 2025 jamiegoode 1058 Views Nebbiolo

Popped into the Good Wine Shop in Kew today and was recommended this wine: a Nebbiolo from Uruguay! Drank it

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Chile Features Highlights Latest 

MAULE: SMALL-SCALE ETHICAL PRODUCERS KEEP RURAL COMMUNITIES ALIVE WHILST MAKING SOME OF THE MOST EXCITING WINES IN LATIN AMERICA 

July 29, 2025October 24, 2025 Lisse Garnett 5969 Views Organic Chile

Time to drink up, says Lisse Garnett.. The UK drinks more Chilean wine than anyone else. Market contractions challenge this

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England Highlights Latest 

Highlights: two from new English still wine producer The Heretics

July 21, 2025July 21, 2025 jamiegoode 1249 Views

Website: https://www.wearetheheretics.com/ The Heretics Pale Rosé 2023 Crouch Valley, Essex12% alcohol. Pale in colour, as it says on the label.

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England Highlights Latest 

Highlights: Smith & Evans Higher Plot Pinot Chardonnay Late Disgorged 2010 England

July 15, 2025 jamiegoode 1062 Views Sparkling wine

This is really interesting; It’s a late disgorgement of an English sparkling wine that spent 13 years on its lees.

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England Highlights Latest Videos 

Highlight: the stunning first edition of Perpetual from English fizz star Langham

July 14, 2025July 14, 2025 jamiegoode 3257 Views Sparkling wine

Langham Perpetual Chardonnay First Edition NV Dorset, England12% alcohol. The best wines from 2017, 2018 and 2019 blended together, and

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Highlights Latest South Africa 

Highlights: three stunning Chenins from Alheit

July 7, 2025 jamiegoode 1332 Views

Chris Alheit was presenting at the Chenin Congress 2025 in the Loire Valley, and he showed three recent releases. These

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England Highlights Latest 

Highlights: Hambledon Classic Cuvée Rosé NV England

July 3, 2025 jamiegoode 976 Views

New release of this impressive rosé from Hambledon, one of the UK’s leading sparkling wine houses. [Aside: keep this out

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Highlights Latest Spain 

Highlights: Bien de Altura Tidao 4 2022 Gran Canaria, Spain

July 3, 2025 jamiegoode 1309 Views

A really impressive single vineyard wine from the talented Carmelo Peña, who also makes wine from Lanzarote. This is from

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Highlights Hungary Latest Videos 

Highlights: Heimann & Fiai Kadarka 2024 Szekszárd, Hungary

June 26, 2025 jamiegoode 3407 Views

Heimann & Fiai are an impressive producer based in Szekszárd, Hungary. This is their Kadarka, a variety that makes beautiful

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Prior Lucas, an interesting, innovative producer in Portugal’s Bairrada region
Features Latest Portugal 

Prior Lucas, an interesting, innovative producer in Portugal’s Bairrada region

January 8, 2026January 8, 2026 jamiegoode

Website: https://priorlucas.pt/en/ Back in June 2025 I spent a day with Rui Lucas, who is making some really interesting wines

Tasting some innovative projects from Luxembourg and Germany – Kox, Dope, Piri Naturel, Kraemer and Salutaris
Features Germany Latest 

Tasting some innovative projects from Luxembourg and Germany – Kox, Dope, Piri Naturel, Kraemer and Salutaris

January 7, 2026 jamiegoode
Alentejo producer Cortes de Cima completes its reinvention, and the new wines hit the spot
Features Latest Portugal Regions 

Alentejo producer Cortes de Cima completes its reinvention, and the new wines hit the spot

January 6, 2026January 6, 2026 jamiegoode
Creation, one of the leading wineries from South Africa’s cool-climate Hemel-en-Aarde region
Features Food and wine Latest Profiles South Africa 

Creation, one of the leading wineries from South Africa’s cool-climate Hemel-en-Aarde region

January 5, 2026January 6, 2026 jamiegoode

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