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Highlights: Little Pomona Ripple Egremont Russet Unoaked Still Cider 2022 England

April 20, 2025December 20, 2025 jamiegoode 1124 Views cider

I know this is a cider, but it’s just so good, and so vinous, that I had to include it.

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England Highlights 

Highlights: Danbury Ridge Chardonnay 2022 at Le Vignoble, Plymouth

April 20, 2025December 20, 2025 jamiegoode 1491 Views

After a nice walk along the Cornish coast from Plymouth (there’s a ferry going to Mount Edgecumbe in Cornwall), we

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England Highlights 

Highlights: Sandridge Barton Sharpham Figgie Daniels 2022

April 13, 2025December 2, 2025 jamiegoode 1107 Views

Website: https://sandridgebarton.com/ Sharpham Figgie Daniel Madeleine Angevine & Pinot Blanc Col Fondo 2022 Devon, England12% alcohol. What used to be

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Highlights: Domaine Bruno Sorg Pinot Noir 2022 Alsace

April 12, 2025December 2, 2025 jamiegoode 1458 Views pinot noir

Website: https://www.domaine-bruno-sorg.com/ Domaine Bruno Sorg Pinot Noir 2023 Alsace, France12.5% alcohol . Served chilled sitting outside this is just perfect

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Viognier
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Highlights: two ambitious Viogniers, from Yalumba and Laurent Miquel

April 11, 2025December 2, 2025 jamiegoode 1187 Views Viognier

Viognier is a really interesting grape variety, and these are two ambitious examples from producers who have focused quite strongly

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California Highlights 

Highlights: Quintessa 2021 Napa, California

April 9, 2025December 2, 2025 jamiegoode 1256 Views Napa

Website: https://www.quintessa.com/ Quintessa make just one red each year from its 135 acres of vines in Rutherford. There’s no second

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Champagne Highlights 

Highlights: Champagne Jerome Blin Les Ports Zero Dosage

March 24, 2025September 29, 2025 jamiegoode 2056 Views

Champagne Jérôme Blin Les Ports Complantation Zero Dosage 2020 FranceFrom an organically farmed parcel called Vincelles, planted in 1986, and

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Highlights Italy 

Highlights: GB Burlotto Barolo Monvigliero 2018 Piemonte, Italy

March 20, 2025September 29, 2025 jamiegoode 1699 Views Piemonte

This is a beautiful Barolo, that I had with some good wine friends at Manteca, off the list. It was

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Highlights Languedoc 

Highlights: Gérard Bertrand Villa Soleilla 2021, taking orange wine to new heights

March 17, 2025September 29, 2025 jamiegoode 1743 Views orange wine

Gérard Bertrand Villa Soleilla 2021 France14% alcohol. Villa Soleilla is probably the world’s most expensive orange wine. It’s made from

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California Features Highlights Regions 

Fifty years of Lytton Springs, the famous Zinfandel-based wine from star California producer Ridge

March 12, 2025 jamiegoode 2545 Views

Website: https://www.ridgewine.com/ The current release of Lytton Springs, the 2022, celebrates 50 years since this single-vineyard wine was first launched

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Garcés Silva is making some lovely wines in Chile’s Leyda Valley, mostly under the Amayna label

February 13, 2026February 13, 2026 jamiegoode

Website: https://vgs.cl/en/ Garcés Silva is a winery whose name isn’t well known, but they are important in the story of

La Grange d’Ernest, an exciting new producer from Savoie
Features France Latest 

La Grange d’Ernest, an exciting new producer from Savoie

February 11, 2026February 11, 2026 jamiegoode
Impressive, well priced wines from Grochau Cellars/GC Wines from Oregon’s Willamette Valley
Features Latest Oregon 

Impressive, well priced wines from Grochau Cellars/GC Wines from Oregon’s Willamette Valley

February 8, 2026February 8, 2026 jamiegoode
Boekenhoutskloof: a vertical of Semillon, and the 2023 new releases from this top South African winery
Features Latest South Africa 

Boekenhoutskloof: a vertical of Semillon, and the 2023 new releases from this top South African winery

February 6, 2026February 6, 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.

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