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  • Celebrating 25 years of Filipa Pato’s wines with an amazing lunch and tasting
  • Video: with Filipa Pato in her old vineyards in Bairrada, Portugal, which she farms with the help of pigs
  • Highlights: Overgaauw Sylvaner 2025 Stellenbosch, South Africa
  • Rabasco: beautiful natural wines from Abruzzo, Italy
  • With these twelve wines, Juampi Michellini, Matias Riccitelli, Rafael Urreloja and Derek Mossman Knapp illustrate Argentina and Chile’s precocious ability to express the best in any variety 
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Highlights: Kolonia 52 Bleu de Hongrie 2023 Balaton, Hungary

October 12, 2025October 13, 2025 jamiegoode 1777 Views Blaufrankisch

This is a really interesting Hungarian red, made from Kekfrankos, aka Blaufränkisch. The name translates as Hungarian Blue (it’s French)

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Highlights Latest South Africa 

Highlights: Sadie Family Wines Twiswind 2024 & Sonvang 2024

October 2, 2025October 2, 2025 Treve Ring 4168 Views field blends, swartland

These two newest Sadie Family wines are 20+ years in the making. Eben Sadie started the project back in 2002,

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Highlights: Graham Beck Cuvée Clive 2018 Western Cape, South Africa

September 29, 2025September 29, 2025 jamiegoode 2294 Views

Website: https://grahambeck.com/ Tried this tonight, and was really impressed. I’ve tried previous vintages, but this was quite striking in its

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Highlights: Taittinger Comtes de Champagne 2014

September 25, 2025September 25, 2025 jamiegoode 3415 Views

Website: https://www.taittinger.com/en The new release of this classic! And it’s really good. Champagne Taittinger Comtes de Champagne Blanc de Blancs

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England Highlights Latest 

Highlights: Enmill Field Mineral Geo Surfaces Col Fondo 2022/23 Wiltshire, England

September 14, 2025September 14, 2025 jamiegoode 2450 Views

Ben Adams worked as vineyard manager for Les Clos Perdu in Corbières. He returned to the UK and planted a

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Highlights Latest Loire 

Highlights: Véronique Günther-Chereau Cru Communal Gorges Muscadet Sèvre et Maine 2013

September 10, 2025September 10, 2025 jamiegoode 2378 Views muscadet

Website: https://vgc.fr/ Véronique Günther-Chereau Cru Communal Gorges Muscadet Sèvre et Maine 2013 Loire, France12% alcohol. This has a volcanic rock

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Highlights Italy Latest 

Highlights: Luigi Giordano Langhe Freisa 2022

September 8, 2025 jamiegoode 2358 Views freisa, Piemonte

Luigi Giordano Langhe Freisa 2022 Valle dei Salici, Piemonte, Italy13% alcohol. This is from Barbaresco, from the Cars MGA, and

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Champagne Highlights Latest 

Highlights: Champagne Billecart-Salmon Le Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru

September 6, 2025 jamiegoode 3750 Views

I like that Billecart-Salmon now have ‘my origin’ on their website, where if you are so inclined you can find

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Highlights South Africa 

Highlights: Veiled Vineyards Old Vine Semillon 2016 Franschhoek, South Africa

September 4, 2025July 21, 2026 jamiegoode 2169 Views Franschhoek, Semillon

Veiled Vineyards Old Vine Semillon 2016 Franschhoek, South Africa13.5% alcohol. This may be almost 9 years old, but it’s a

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England Highlights 

Highlights: Roebuck Estates Rare Expressions Ninety-Six 2014 Sussex, England

September 3, 2025July 21, 2026 jamiegoode 2410 Views

Website: https://www.roebuckestates.co.uk/wine/rare-expressions-no-96/ Roebuck Estates Rare Expressions Ninety-Six 2014 Sussex, EnglandThis is the second release of the Roebuck’s luxury Rare Expressions

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Celebrating 25 years of Filipa Pato’s wines with an amazing lunch and tasting
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Celebrating 25 years of Filipa Pato’s wines with an amazing lunch and tasting

October 30, 2026October 30, 2026 jamiegoode

Flipa Pato, daughter of famous Bairrada winegrower Luis Pato, first started making her own wines 25 years ago, in 2001.

Rabasco: beautiful natural wines from Abruzzo, Italy
Features Italy Latest 

Rabasco: beautiful natural wines from Abruzzo, Italy

October 28, 2026October 28, 2026 jamiegoode
With these twelve wines, Juampi Michellini, Matias Riccitelli, Rafael Urreloja and Derek Mossman Knapp illustrate Argentina and Chile’s precocious ability to express the best in any variety 
Argentina Chile Features Latest 

With these twelve wines, Juampi Michellini, Matias Riccitelli, Rafael Urreloja and Derek Mossman Knapp illustrate Argentina and Chile’s precocious ability to express the best in any variety 

October 26, 2026October 26, 2026 Lisse Garnett
Three wines from a new producer in Oxfordshire (UK): Yew Tree Vineyard
England Features Latest 

Three wines from a new producer in Oxfordshire (UK): Yew Tree Vineyard

October 24, 2026October 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.

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