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  • Island Wines: a tasting of sweet wines from Tenerife, Pantellaria, Kefalonia and Santinori
  • 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
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Highlights Spain 

Highlights:Familia Nin-Ortiz Selma de Nin Finca La Sinia 2016 Vi de Tabula, Spain

December 28, 2020February 17, 2021 jamiegoode 6205 Views

Nin-Ortiz is Ester Nin (viticulturist for Daphne Glorian’s Clos Erasmus) and Carles Ortiz (grape grower), who met and merged there

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Champagne Highlights Latest 

Highlights: Champagne Robert Moncuit Blanc de Blancs Le Mesnil Sur Oger Grand Cru 2012

December 23, 2020 jamiegoode 6527 Views

Moncuit farm without herbicides and pesticides, and are organic but not certified. The base wine for this vintage 2012 is

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Highlights South Africa 

Highlights: Charla Haasbroek Cabernet Sauvignon 2017 Malgas, South Africa

December 20, 2020February 17, 2021 jamiegoode 6196 Views Cabernet Sauvignon

Charla Haasbroek is the winemaker at Sijnn in the Cape South Coast region of Malgas. It’s a special place, pioneered

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Highlights Portugal 

Highlights: El3mento 2017 Douro, Portugal

December 18, 2020July 3, 2025 jamiegoode 7391 Views Douro

El3mento is a joint venture between Niepoort winemaker Luís Pedro and Carmelo Peña (who makes wines in the Canary Islands

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Austria Highlights 

Highlights: Heinrich Graue Freyheit 2017 Austria

December 15, 2020December 23, 2020 jamiegoode 7586 Views Natural wine, orange wine

This remarkable wine, in a clay bottle, is a blend of Grauburgunder (Pinot Gris) from crystalline schist and quartz schist

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Beer Highlights 

Highlights: [beer] Beavertown Tempest The Chariot Bretted Pilsner

December 13, 2020December 23, 2020 jamiegoode 4856 Views

This is a remarkable beer, with a connection to wine. From London craft brewery Beavertown it is a pilsner that

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Highlights Portugal 

Highlights: Cortes de Cima Incógnito 2013 Alentejo, Portugal

December 6, 2020December 23, 2020 jamiegoode 7690 Views Alentejo, syrah

There’s an interesting story behind this wine. Incógnito is the famous Syrah made by Cortes de Cima, first produced in

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Burgundy Highlights 

Highlights: Christophe Cordier Viré Clessé Vieilles Vignes 2018 Bourgogne, France

December 4, 2020December 23, 2020 jamiegoode 8146 Views Chardonnay

I was really impressed by this white Burgundy. Domaine Cordier is run by Christophe Cordier, and he has a negociant

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Highlights Italy 

Highlights: Mutiliana Ibbola Sangiovese Modigliana 2016 Romagna, Italy

November 30, 2020 jamiegoode 5527 Views Romagna, Sangiovese

Sangiovese is a singular grape variety. It’s genetic heritage is half southern and half central Italian, and Italy has most

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Highlights South Africa 

Highlights: Craven Pinot Gris 2019 Stellenbosch, South Africa

November 27, 2020December 23, 2020 jamiegoode 7300 Views pinot gris

Mick and Jeanine Craven are making some of South Africa’s most interesting wines from vineyards in Stellenbosch (see this extensive

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Island Wines: a tasting of sweet wines from Tenerife, Pantellaria, Kefalonia and Santinori

June 26, 2026 jamiegoode

Matteo Montone presented this seminar on sweet wines from islands, as part of the excellent Island Wines summit in Tenerife.

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
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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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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