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Australia Highlights 

Highlights: Ochota Barrels 2018 Home… Pinot Noir

December 23, 2019January 16, 2020 Treve Ring 5363 Views Adelaide Hills, pinot noir

After making it through the impressive/annoying two layers and colours of wax (so pretty though), this incredibly spicy, tight and

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Highlights 

Highlights : Suertes del Marqués 2017 Vidonia

December 21, 2019 Treve Ring 4852 Views Tenerife

From Tenerife’s volcanic soils, and organically farmed old-vine Listán Blanco at 350-450m, this mineral-driven blend was native fermented in neutral

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Highlights Loire 

Highlights : Nicolas Joly 2016 Clos de la Coulée de Serrant

December 10, 2019December 16, 2019 Treve Ring 6532 Views biodynamics, Chenin Blanc, Loire Valley

Clos de la Coulée de Serrant is a 7ha monopole and a French AOC in its own right, one of

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Highlights New Zealand 

Three Marlborough Sauvignons from 2019: Greywacke, Framingham and Nautilus

December 10, 2019 jamiegoode 5782 Views

2019 followed two very difficult vintages in Marlborough. Yields were slightly down, but the warm, dry conditions were welcomed after

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Champagne Highlights 

Highlights: Champagne Ayala Le Blanc de Blancs 2013

December 8, 2019December 12, 2019 jamiegoode 5466 Views

Based in Aÿ, Ayala are the sister house of Bollinger, and they make lovely wines. This is the rare Blanc

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Argentina Highlights 

Highlights: Riccitelli Blanco de la Casa 2017 Mendoza

December 7, 2019December 7, 2019 jamiegoode 5591 Views

Argentina is much better known for its reds than its whites. But with stunning wine like this blend from Matias

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Highlights Russia 

Highlights: Lefkadia Reserve 2013, Russia

December 5, 2019December 5, 2019 jamiegoode 4777 Views

It’s been quite a while since I visited Russia’s Krasnodar wine region. While I was in Moscow for the Simple

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Canada Highlights 

Highlights: Tawse Chardonnay 2013 Niagara, Canada

December 2, 2019December 2, 2019 jamiegoode 4100 Views Chardonnay, Niagara

Tawse are one of Niagara’s leading wineries, and this Chardonnay really delivers. From biodynamically farmed vineyards, this is newly available

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Champagne Highlights 

Highlights: Champagne Bruno Paillard NPU 2014

November 28, 2019November 28, 2019 jamiegoode 5712 Views

This is a really serious high-end Champagne from Bruno Paillard. NPU stands for Nec Plus Ultra. It’s an extra brut

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Australia Highlights 

Empire of Dirt, exciting new wines from the Yarra

November 14, 2019December 14, 2019 jamiegoode 6965 Views Yarra Valley

Sauvignon and a Cabernet from Australia’s Yarra Valley? Normally, I’d be sceptical, but when it’s a collaboration between Timo Meyer

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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
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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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