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  • Highlights: Overgaauw Sylvaner 2025 Stellenbosch, South Africa
  • Rabasco: beautiful natural wines from Abruzzo, Italy
  • With these twelve wines, Juampi Michellini, Matias Riccitelli, Rafael Urreloja and Derek Mossman Knapp illustrate Argentina and Chile’s precocious ability to express the best in any variety 
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Champagne Highlights Videos 

Highlights: Taittinger Comtes de Champagne 2008

September 20, 2020October 9, 2020 jamiegoode 11729 Views

The long-awaited 2008 version of Taittinger’s prestige cuvée, Comtes de Champagne, has been released. I drank a bottle of it

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England Highlights 

Highlights: Litmus Red Pinot 2018 England

September 18, 2020 jamiegoode 6292 Views

This is made by Litmus Wines at Denbies Wine Estate in Surrey. It’s called ‘Red Pinot’ because it is a

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Highlights: Jean-François Ganevat Plein Sud Trousseau 2018 Côtes du Jura

September 18, 2020November 14, 2020 jamiegoode 7713 Views Jura, Natural wine

Had this at Noble Rot Soho. It’s a Trousseau from the Jura, made without any added sulfites. Infusion-style winemaking with

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Highlights New York State 

Highlights: Red Hook Winery McCall Vineyard Merlot 2016 North Fork of Long Island, New York State

September 14, 2020November 14, 2020 jamiegoode 5725 Views Long Island

The Red Hook Winery is an urban winery in Brooklyn, New York. I visited back in August 2018, and was

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Highlights Latest Spain 

Highlights: La Rioja Alta Viña Arana Gran Reserva 2014 Rioja, Spain

September 9, 2020September 10, 2020 jamiegoode 8371 Views Rioja

La Rioja Alta is one of the classic wineries of Rioja. They have three Reserva Wine brands, Alberdi, Arana and

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Bordeaux Highlights 

Highlights: G de Château Guiraud Bordeaux Blanc Sec 2016

September 6, 2020September 18, 2020 jamiegoode 6442 Views

G de Château Guiraud Bordeaux Blanc Sec 2016 France13.5% alcohol. Organic farming, with some limestone in the clay/gravel soils. This

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Argentina Highlights 

Highlights: Ver Sacrum G.S.M Field Blend 2018 Los Chacayes, Mendoza

September 5, 2020September 18, 2020 jamiegoode 6804 Views

Eduardo Soler was inspired by the mountain Garnachas of Gredos, in Spain. In 2012 he began his own project in

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Highlights Spain 

Highlights: Toro Loco Orgánico 2018 Utiel-Requna, Spain

September 2, 2020September 6, 2020 jamiegoode 8451 Views

I have no idea how Aldi can sell an organic wine for £4.99. Especially when it tastes really good. And

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Highlights Portugal 

Highlights: Herdade do Rocim Clay Aged Tinto 2018 Alentejo, Portugal

August 31, 2020November 14, 2025 jamiegoode 4968 Views Alentejo, Amphora

Rocim, the Alentejo winery based between Cuba and Vidigueira in the south of the region, are famous for their hosting

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Champagne Highlights 

Highlights: Champagne Dom Pérignon Rosé 2006 France

August 30, 2020October 9, 2020 jamiegoode 7760 Views

Sometimes when a wine is really expensive, you almost don’t want it to be too good. This, the pink version

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Celebrating 25 years of Filipa Pato’s wines with an amazing lunch and tasting
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Celebrating 25 years of Filipa Pato’s wines with an amazing lunch and tasting

October 30, 2026October 30, 2026 jamiegoode

Flipa Pato, daughter of famous Bairrada winegrower Luis Pato, first started making her own wines 25 years ago, in 2001.

Rabasco: beautiful natural wines from Abruzzo, Italy
Features Italy Latest 

Rabasco: beautiful natural wines from Abruzzo, Italy

October 28, 2026October 28, 2026 jamiegoode
With these twelve wines, Juampi Michellini, Matias Riccitelli, Rafael Urreloja and Derek Mossman Knapp illustrate Argentina and Chile’s precocious ability to express the best in any variety 
Argentina Chile Features Latest 

With these twelve wines, Juampi Michellini, Matias Riccitelli, Rafael Urreloja and Derek Mossman Knapp illustrate Argentina and Chile’s precocious ability to express the best in any variety 

October 26, 2026October 26, 2026 Lisse Garnett
Three wines from a new producer in Oxfordshire (UK): Yew Tree Vineyard
England Features Latest 

Three wines from a new producer in Oxfordshire (UK): Yew Tree Vineyard

October 24, 2026October 24, 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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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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