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Champagne Highlights 

Highlights : Champagne Rémi Leroy NV Brut Nature

January 5, 2020January 12, 2020 Treve Ring 9344 Views champagne, grower champagne

Based in the Aube, which shares the same Portlandian and Kimmeridgian limestone soils as Chablis just further south, young Rémi

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Austria Highlights 

Highlights : Hajszan-Neumann 2016 Gemischter Satz Natural, Wiener Gemischter Satz DAC Nussberg, Austria

December 30, 2019January 3, 2020 Treve Ring 6971 Views biodynamic, Demeter, Natural wine

With a name like Fritz Wieninger, you have to trust that wine, and Vienna, is in his blood. Fritz is

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Australia Highlights 

Highlights: Ochota Barrels 2018 Home… Pinot Noir

December 23, 2019January 16, 2020 Treve Ring 5828 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 : Suertes del Marqués 2017 Vidonia

December 21, 2019 Treve Ring 5326 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 7132 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 6273 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 5880 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 6056 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 5322 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 4574 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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Notes from a remarkable long lunch at Gaveto in Matosinhos, Portugal, with Niepoort, Transmission and friends, plus some amazing Champagnes
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Notes from a remarkable long lunch at Gaveto in Matosinhos, Portugal, with Niepoort, Transmission and friends, plus some amazing Champagnes

September 16, 2026 jamiegoode

As far as lunches go, this was one of the best I’ve had in recent years, held at the remarkable

Going to the football? Like good wine? A tasting trip through Islington’s wine bars pairs well with tickets for a north London matchday
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Going to the football? Like good wine? A tasting trip through Islington’s wine bars pairs well with tickets for a north London matchday

September 14, 2026 jamiegoode
Pfalz Riesling: tasting through some of the top examples at the VDP tasting 2026
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Pfalz Riesling: tasting through some of the top examples at the VDP tasting 2026

September 14, 2026September 14, 2026 jamiegoode
the central dozen - 12 central otago pinot noirs
Features Latest New Zealand Regions 

The Central Dozen, an important exercise in telling the contemporary story of Central Otago Pinot Noir through a curated selection of 12 bottles

September 12, 2026September 12, 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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