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California Highlights

Highlights: The Ojai Vineyard Syrah 2017 Santa Barbara County, California

January 6, 2021January 18, 2021 jamiegoode 5974 Views syrah

Syrah from a cool-ish climate in California. It’s a variety you’d think would be thriving in California, but it hasn’t

Highlights New Zealand

Highlights: Black Estate Netherwood Pinot Noir 2014 Waipara Valley, New Zealand

January 4, 2021January 18, 2021 jamiegoode 5326 Views North Canterbury, pinot noir

This is a deeply impressive New Zealand Pinot Noir, from Black Estate. Winemaking is pretty natural here, and the house

Highlights Spain

Highlights: La Rioja Alta Viña Ardanza Reserva Especial 2001 Rioja, Spain

January 3, 2021February 17, 2021 jamiegoode 7755 Views Rioja

This is a deeply impressive Rioja Reserva from La Rioja Alta, which is ageing beautifully. 80% Tempranillo and 20% Garnacha.

Highlights Loire

Highlights: Domaine Bonnigal-Bodet Chenin ‘Le Clocher’ 2018 Touraine Amboise, Loire

January 1, 2021February 17, 2021 jamiegoode 7283 Views Chenin Blanc

Domaine Bonnigal-Bodet is Jean Baptiste Bonnigal and Stéphane Bodet, who jointly took over Bonnigal’s fourth-generation family domaine in Amboise together

Highlights Spain

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

December 28, 2020February 17, 2021 jamiegoode 6380 Views

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

Champagne Highlights Latest

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

December 23, 2020 jamiegoode 6709 Views

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

Highlights South Africa

Highlights: Charla Haasbroek Cabernet Sauvignon 2017 Malgas, South Africa

December 20, 2020February 17, 2021 jamiegoode 6367 Views Cabernet Sauvignon

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

Highlights Portugal

Highlights: El3mento 2017 Douro, Portugal

December 18, 2020July 3, 2025 jamiegoode 7551 Views Douro

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

Austria Highlights

Highlights: Heinrich Graue Freyheit 2017 Austria

December 15, 2020December 23, 2020 jamiegoode 7772 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

Beer Highlights

Highlights: [beer] Beavertown Tempest The Chariot Bretted Pilsner

December 13, 2020December 23, 2020 jamiegoode 5016 Views

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