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Highlights South Africa 

Highlights: Reyneke Organic Cabernet Merlot 2018

March 5, 2020March 8, 2020 jamiegoode 6030 Views

This is a lovely wine. Seriously impressed by this, and it’s currently a bit of a steal at just £8.99

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Highlights Japan 

Highlight: Domaine Hase Pino Fin Blanc 2018, Nagano, Japan

March 3, 2020April 23, 2020 jamiegoode 6148 Views Natural wine

This comes from a small winery high up (800 m) in Nagano that I visited last year. I tasted this

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Highlights Portugal 

Highlight: Luis Seabra Indie Xisto 2016

March 2, 2020March 9, 2020 Treve Ring 6528 Views Douro, Schist

After a successful decade as winemaker and right hand to Dirk at Niepoort, Luis Seabra decided to break out on

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Highlights 

Highlights: Ganevat Orégane 2015

February 18, 2020 jamiegoode 8066 Views Jura, Natural wine

This is such a remarkable wine, but that’s what you’d expect from Jean-François Ganevat’s domaine wines. It’s a blend of

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Highlights 

Highlights: Le Rocher des Violettes Côt Vielles Vignes 2017 Touraine

February 12, 2020 jamiegoode 4733 Views

I’m quite a fan of Loire reds, and this Malbec (known locally as Côt) was a nice surprise. It’s very

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Canada Highlights 

Highlights: two sparkling wines from Fitzpatrick, Okanagan, Canada

February 5, 2020February 7, 2020 jamiegoode 5467 Views okanagan, Sparkling wine

Fitzpatrick Fitz Blanc de Blanc 2015 Okanagan, Canada12% alcohol. The Fitzpatrick family owned Cedar Creek, and when they sold to

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Germany Highlights 

Highlights: Staffelter Hof Little Bastard 2019 Mosel

February 1, 2020 jamiegoode 7169 Views Natural wine

Jan Matthias Klein runs his family estate, Staettler Hof in Kröv, in Germany’s Mosel region. As well as some more

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Highlights 

Highlights: Champagne Gérmar Breton Rosé NV

January 29, 2020 jamiegoode 5642 Views champagne

I bumped into this grower Champagne, Gérmar Breton, previously unknown to me, at the Mampuku restaurant in Bordeaux. It was

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Highlights Portugal 

Highlights: Quinta do Noval Petit Verdot 2016, Douro

January 26, 2020January 26, 2020 jamiegoode 5394 Views Douro, Petit Verdot

Why would you plant Petit Verdot in the Douro? It’s a region that already has a host of well adapted

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Alsace Highlights 

Highlights: Domaine Ostertag ‘Les Jardins’ Riesling 2018 Alsace

January 24, 2020January 30, 2020 jamiegoode 7210 Views Riesling

Biodynamic since 1997, André Ostertag is one of the stars of the Alsace wine region. Since 2017, he’s handed over

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North Canterbury, New Zealand (10) Pegasus Bay
Features Latest New Zealand 

North Canterbury, New Zealand (10) Pegasus Bay

February 16, 2026February 16, 2026 jamiegoode

Back in 1976, Christchurch neurologist Ivan Donaldson had caught the wine bug, and with some of his medical friends planted

Geographic Wines: an exciting pan-regional terroir project from Portugal
Features Latest Portugal 

Geographic Wines: an exciting pan-regional terroir project from Portugal

February 16, 2026February 16, 2026 jamiegoode
The wines of Vietti, a leading Langhe producer
Features Italy Latest 

The wines of Vietti, a leading Langhe producer

February 16, 2026February 16, 2026 jamiegoode
Nekter Deli: a new wine bar in an impressive space with a great list
Features Latest 

Nekter Deli: a new wine bar in an impressive space with a great list

February 15, 2026February 15, 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.

This is an explanation of what an anorak is.

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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