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Highlights South of France Videos 

Highlights: Domaine Jones Fitou Vieilles Vignes 2017

April 23, 2020April 29, 2020 jamiegoode 7671 Views Fitou

Fitou is an appellation in France’s Languedoc region, where red blends dominate, and Carignan is a major player in these

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Domaine Rougeot
Burgundy Highlights Videos 

Highlights: Domaine Rougeot ‘Les Plumes’ Bourgogne Aligoté 2018

April 19, 2020 jamiegoode 7832 Views

This is from a 1.5 hectare vineyard next to Meursault, planted in 1974. Pierre-Henri Rougeot bottles the whole lot without

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England Highlights Videos 

Highlights: Wiston Blanc de Blancs 2015 England

April 15, 2020April 23, 2020 jamiegoode 5906 Views Sparkling wine

Another really impressive sparkling wine from England. The vineyard is 6.5 hectares planted in 2006, on chalk soils of the

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England Highlights Videos 

Highlights: Black Chalk Classic 2016 Hampshire, England

April 14, 2020May 15, 2020 jamiegoode 6949 Views Sparkling wine

Black Chalk began life as a side-gig for Hattingley Valley winemaker Jacob Leadley. It was a joint venture with his

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Canada Highlights 

Highlights: Tawse Quarry Road Chardonnay 2011 Niagara, Canada

April 11, 2020April 23, 2020 jamiegoode 6996 Views Chardonnay

Jamie Goode tastes an 8 year old Chardonnay from Canada’s Niagara wine region. It’s the Tawse Quarry Road from Vinemount

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Highlights Portugal 

Highlight : Julia Kemper 2017 Elpenor Blanc de Noir

April 10, 2020April 10, 2020 Treve Ring 5236 Views biodynamic, Dao, granite

The Melo family landed in Dão’s Oliveira–Mangualde hundreds of years ago, and that’s where the vineyards and winery of current

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Highlights Portugal Videos 

Highlights: Fita Preta Touriga Vai Nui Unoaked 2019 Alentejo, Portugal

April 8, 2020April 8, 2020 jamiegoode 6146 Views Alentejo

This is fab – from winemaker António Maçanita, it’s wild ferment, bottled early, capturing the character of the variety so

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Highlights Latest Washington State 

Highlights: Gramercy Cellars John Lewis Syrah 2012 Washington State

April 4, 2020April 4, 2020 jamiegoode 4335 Views syrah

So, tonight I did my first Instagram Live session. It was the first of a new Wine Zones series from

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Highlights Latest New York State 

Highlights: Standing Stone Teinturier Saperavi 2018

April 4, 2020April 4, 2020 jamiegoode 6600 Views Saperavi

This is unexpected: a Saperavi from the Finger Lakes. Standing Stone – now owned by Hermann J. Wiemer – first

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Highlights New Zealand 

Highlights: Neudorf Tom’s Block Pinot Noir 2017

April 1, 2020 jamiegoode 6676 Views Nelson, pinot noir

Neudorf are the undisputed stars of New Zealand’s Nelson wine region. And this wine, Tom’s Block Pinot Noir, is really

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Features

Restaurants: Singburi, amazing Thai food in Shoreditch, London, and a short but great wine list
Features Food and wine Latest 

Restaurants: Singburi, amazing Thai food in Shoreditch, London, and a short but great wine list

August 29, 2026August 29, 2026 jamiegoode

Popped into Singburi in Shoreditch this afternoon for a late lunch. Came away full, happy and itching to go back.

Canada’s Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys (12) Haywire and Garnet Valley Ranch
Canada Features Latest 

Canada’s Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys (12) Haywire and Garnet Valley Ranch

August 27, 2026August 27, 2026 jamiegoode
Canada’s Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys (11) Solvero in Garnet Valley
Canada Features Highlights 

Canada’s Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys (11) Solvero in Garnet Valley

August 27, 2026 jamiegoode
Kranz, a leading Pfalz winery, celebrates 25 years of making a single-vineyard wine from a special site called Kalmit
Features Germany Latest 

Kranz, a leading Pfalz winery, celebrates 25 years of making a single-vineyard wine from a special site called Kalmit

August 26, 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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