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  • Visiting Hillick & Hobbs with winemaker Lynne Fahy – one of the most spectacular vineyards in the Finger Lakes region of New York State
  • Video: Hollick & Hobbs, Seneca Lake, Finger Lakes, New York
  • Canada’s Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys (10) Corcelettes
  • Island Wines: a tasting of sweet wines from Tenerife, Pantellaria, Kefalonia and Santorini
  • Lunch at Treadwell (Niagara, Canada) with some lovely wines: Ulysses Colin, La Rogerie and Comando G
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Canada Highlights 

Highlight: Therianthropy David Eagle Gamay 2018

March 23, 2020April 23, 2020 Treve Ring 6696 Views Gamay, Michel Tolmer, Ontario

Therianthropy is the mythical process of shapeshifting, which is another way to view turning nature into wine. This small collaborative

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Highlights Portugal 

Highlight: Azores Wine Co. Arinto dos Açores 2018

March 20, 2020March 24, 2020 Treve Ring 5773 Views Azores, volcanic

Winemaker António Maçanita may be best known for his FitaPreta wines in Alentejo, though with this venture he looked to

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Highlights South Africa 

Highlights: Lelie van Saron Chardonnay 2017 Hemel-en-Aarde

March 18, 2020April 23, 2020 jamiegoode 6704 Views Chardonnay

Natasha Williams is a winemaker who works for Bosman, but she also has her own label, Lelie van Saron. This,

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Champagne Highlights 

Highlights: Champagne Egly Ouriet Grand Cru Bru

March 14, 2020March 14, 2020 jamiegoode 7214 Views grower champagne

Popped into Noble Rot last night with two wine folk from New York’s Finger Lakes wine region for a pre-dinner

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Highlights Jura 

Highlights: a duo from star Jura producer Domaine Labet

March 9, 2020April 23, 2020 Treve Ring 11720 Views Chardonnay, Jura, Natural wine

The Labet family of Rotalier in the area south of Lons-le-Saunier, known as the Sud Revermont, have been making thoughtful

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Highlights South Africa 

Highlights: Reyneke Organic Cabernet Merlot 2018

March 5, 2020March 8, 2020 jamiegoode 6330 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 6352 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 6854 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 8345 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 5011 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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Visiting Hillick & Hobbs with winemaker Lynne Fahy – one of the most spectacular vineyards in the Finger Lakes region of New York State
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Visiting Hillick & Hobbs with winemaker Lynne Fahy – one of the most spectacular vineyards in the Finger Lakes region of New York State

June 26, 2026June 26, 2026 jamiegoode

Website: https://www.hillickandhobbs.com/ Paul Hobbs is very well known in the wine world, and as well as consulting widely he opened

Canada’s Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys (10) Corcelettes
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Canada’s Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys (10) Corcelettes

June 26, 2026 jamiegoode
island wines sweet wines
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Island Wines: a tasting of sweet wines from Tenerife, Pantellaria, Kefalonia and Santorini

June 26, 2026June 26, 2026 jamiegoode
Canada’s Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys (11) Lake Breeze
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Canada’s Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys (11) Lake Breeze

June 24, 2026June 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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