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Champagne Highlights 

Highlights: Champagne Bollinger PN VZ19 France

December 25, 2024September 28, 2025 jamiegoode 1768 Views

Very impressed by this prestige bottling from Bollinger. Champagne Bollinger PN VZ19 France12.5% alcohol. This is 100% Pinot Noir, base

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Highlights Italy 

Highlights: Querciabella Batàr 2022 IGT Blanco Toscana, Italy

December 15, 2024July 4, 2025 jamiegoode 1858 Views Tuscany

Website: https://querciabella.com/wine/batar/ Querciabella Batàr 2022 IGT Blanco Toscana, Italy14% alcohol. Since 1988 Querciabella have made this ‘supertuscan’ white, which is

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Burgundy Highlights 

Highlights: Julien Cruchandeau Bouzeron Massale 2021 Bourgogne

December 15, 2024July 4, 2025 jamiegoode 1789 Views

Website: https://www.domaine-cruchandeau.com/en/ Julien Cruchandeau began managing a domaine in Bouzeron in 2001, after finishing his studies. He began his own

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Champagne Highlights 

Highlights: Champagne Henriot Blanc de Blancs NV

December 9, 2024July 4, 2025 jamiegoode 1841 Views

Champagne Henriot Blanc de Blancs NV France12% alcohol£46 The Finest Bubble, Hedonism, Loki WineThis is based on 2017, and Henriot

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Highlights Japan 

Highlights: Niki Hills Winery Hatsuyuki Kerner 2022 Hokkaido, Japan

December 6, 2024July 4, 2025 jamiegoode 3047 Views

Hokkaido is a very interesting wine region in Japan, with a particular emphasis on low-intervention wines, and as well as

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England Highlights Sparkling wine 

Highlights: Nyetimber Tillington Single Vineyard 2016 Sussex, England

December 6, 2024September 28, 2025 jamiegoode 1721 Views

This is one of the best English sparkling wines I’ve tasted – an elegant single-site Pinot Noir-led wine. Nyetimber Tillington

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Champagne Highlights 

Highlights: Champagne Alfred Gratien NV

December 3, 2024July 4, 2025 jamiegoode 1659 Views

Champagne Alfred Gratien NV France12.5% alcohol. Gratien is a small house of around 300 000 bottles a year, and is

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Australia Highlights 

Highlights: Mitchelton Cabernet Shiraz 1973 Goulburn Valley, Victoria, Australia

November 17, 2024April 25, 2025 jamiegoode 1404 Views

This is a remarkable wine. On the night before the Pinot Massif event that brought 40-odd winemakers together at Mitchelton

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Highlights Lebanon 

Highlights: Chateau Musar Hochar Père et Fils 2019 Bekaa Valley, Lebanon

November 16, 2024April 25, 2025 jamiegoode 1364 Views

Chateau Musar Hochar Père et Fils 2019 Bekaa Valley, Lebanon13.5% alcohol. This is a blend of Cinsault, Grenache and Cabernet

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Australia Highlights 

Highlights: MMAD Grenache 2022 Blewitt Springs, McLaren Vale

November 14, 2024April 25, 2025 jamiegoode 1698 Views Grenache, McLaren Vale

Tried this wine with a few wine folk after dinner last night and was really impressed. From the Shaw &

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A beautiful dinner at Lakeview Palace in Macau, matching Chinese food with some top Chinese wines
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A beautiful dinner at Lakeview Palace in Macau, matching Chinese food with some top Chinese wines

March 6, 2026March 6, 2026 jamiegoode

Website: https://www.wynnresortsmacau.com/en/wynn-palace/dining/lakeview-palace I arrived tonight in Macau in advance of judging the Wynn Signature Chinese Wine Awards. We dined at

Another airline lounge raid, 12 wines tried
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Another airline lounge raid, 12 wines tried

March 4, 2026March 4, 2026 jamiegoode
Apollo’s Praise: an exciting new producer in New York’s Finger Lakes wine region
Features Latest New York State Profiles 

Apollo’s Praise: an exciting new producer in New York’s Finger Lakes wine region

March 3, 2026 jamiegoode
Porto in pictures, with a short film
Features Latest Portugal Videos 

Porto in pictures, with a short film

March 2, 2026March 2, 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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