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California Highlights 

Highlights: Enfield Wine Co Waterhorse Ridge Cabernet Sauvignon 2016

June 13, 2020 Treve Ring 6201 Views Cabernet Sauvignon

Take everything you know of Cali Cab and throw it away. Then taste this graceful wine. From Sonoma County’s tiny

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Highlights: Sorrenberg Sauvignon Blanc Semillon 2018

June 10, 2020 Treve Ring 6003 Views

This is serious wine, and should be considered as one of Australia’s top whites. From his biodynamically farmed 2.4ha vineyard

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Highlights South Africa 

Highlights: Savage Wines Thief in the Night 2017

June 9, 2020June 10, 2020 Treve Ring 6528 Views

Duncan Savage is well recognized as one of the unofficial/official leaders of the Zoo Cru, a collective of like-minded winemakers

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Highlights: The Ojai Vineyard Chardonnay Bien Nacido Vineyard 2017 Santa Maria Valley, California

June 7, 2020June 7, 2020 jamiegoode 4926 Views Chardonnay

Adam Tolmach began his wine career at Zaca Mesa in Santa Barbara County. Before long he decided to do his

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Austria Highlights Latest 

Highlights: Heinrich Weisze Freyheit 2017 Österreich

June 3, 2020June 4, 2020 jamiegoode 6564 Views Natural wine

Heinrich are one of the top producers in Austria’s Burgenland wine region. They farm in the Leithaberg region, biodynamically. This

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Highlights: Vidal-Fleury Côtes du Rhône 2016

May 30, 2020May 30, 2020 jamiegoode 7299 Views

I liked this wine much more than I was expecting to. Yes, it’s not cheap for a Côtes du Rhône

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Highlights Spain Videos 

Highlights: Suertes del Marques 7 Fuentes 2016 Tenerife

May 29, 2020May 29, 2020 jamiegoode 6772 Views Tenerife

Suertes del Marques 7 Fuentes 2016 Orotava, Teneferife, Spain13% alcohol. A wine I bought a while back, this is a

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England Highlights 

Highlights: Fizzy Bum Bum Pet Nat 2019 Cornwall, England

May 26, 2020 jamiegoode 7092 Views Pet Nat, Sparkling wine

Few will get to try this micro-production wine, but I wanted to include it here, because it shows how good

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Highlights: Van Loggerenberg Wines Graft 2017 Stellenbosch, South Africa

May 22, 2020 jamiegoode 6295 Views

This is a cracking wine. I bought a six-pack of it after tasting it at Cape Wine in September 2018,

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Highlights: Bodegas Cota 45 Ube Miraflores 2018 Spain

May 19, 2020May 20, 2020 jamiegoode 9179 Views flor, manzanilla, palomino

Ramiro Ibáñez is the dude behind Bodegas Cota 45, and his small winery is on the waterfront in Sanlúcar de

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