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Discovering the Mâconnais (12) Les Vignerons de Mancey

August 8, 2025August 11, 2025 jamiegoode 1552 Views Maconnais

Website: https://www.lesvigneronsdemancey.fr/en/ Les Vignerons de Mancey is, as the name suggests, a cooperative cellar. But it’s a small cooperative, around

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Discovering the Mâconnais (11) Domaine Eric et Catherine Giroud

August 7, 2025August 11, 2025 jamiegoode 1545 Views Chardonnay, Maconnais

Website: https://www.domainegiroud.fr/ I met with Eric and Catherine on a lovely July day in one of their vineyards, along with

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Highlights: Niki Hills Winery Zweigeltrebe 2022 Hokkaido, Japan

August 7, 2025August 7, 2025 jamiegoode 978 Views

Niki Hills is an interesting winery based in Hokkaido, the northernmost island of Japan, which is turning out to be

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Visiting the Macedon Ranges, a cool-climate Australian wine region making some exciting wines (1) introduction

August 6, 2025October 24, 2025 jamiegoode 1669 Views macedon ranges

Website: https://www.macedonrangeswine.com.au/ Macedon Ranges is a small, cool-climate region in Victoria, about an hour’s drive north of Melbourne. At altitudes

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Exploring the Macedon Ranges (3) Cobaw Ridge and Joshua Cooper Wines

August 6, 2025August 6, 2025 jamiegoode 1746 Views macedon ranges

Cobaw Ridge is a really interesting producer, based on the north side of the Macedon Ranges in Victoria, Australia. When

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Exploring the Macedon Ranges (2): Place of Changing Winds, a remarkable project focusing on Pinot Noir and Chardonnay

August 5, 2025August 6, 2025 jamiegoode 2157 Views macedon ranges

Website: https://www.placeofchangingwinds.com.au/ This is a remarkable project from Robert Walters, who for over 15 years has been wine buyer for

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Exploring the Macedon Ranges (4): Bindi, one of Australia’s leading wineries

August 5, 2025August 6, 2025 jamiegoode 1598 Views macedon ranges

Website: https://bindiwines.com.au/ In the Macedon ranges, a short drive from Melbourne, Michael Dhillon (pictured above) is currently making some of

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Highlights: Pablo Fallabrino Sagitta Nebbiolo Grand Reserve 2020 Uruguay

August 5, 2025August 5, 2025 jamiegoode 986 Views Nebbiolo

Popped into the Good Wine Shop in Kew today and was recommended this wine: a Nebbiolo from Uruguay! Drank it

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Restaurants: Urchin, Holland Park, London

August 5, 2025 jamiegoode 2729 Views Restaurants

Website: https://urchinjapanese.com/ Urchin is unusual but brilliant. It’s a Japanese restaurant that’s a sister to Dorian, and technically it’s a

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A big tasting of Japanese wines

August 4, 2025August 4, 2025 jamiegoode 4388 Views

I’ve been following Japanese wine for a while, and a while back I attended a large tasting of Japanese wines

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Heinrich: beautiful naturally inclined wines from Austria’s Burgenland region
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Heinrich: beautiful naturally inclined wines from Austria’s Burgenland region

December 8, 2025December 8, 2025 jamiegoode

Heinrich is one of Austria’s most interesting producers. Based in Burgenland, they successfully negociated a style change in 2014 and

The impressive wines of Herdade do Rocim and its associated projects, among Portugal’s best
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The impressive wines of Herdade do Rocim and its associated projects, among Portugal’s best

December 7, 2025December 7, 2025 jamiegoode
Slovenia: Edi Simčič, one of the stars of Brda
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Slovenia: Edi Simčič, one of the stars of Brda

December 6, 2025December 6, 2025 jamiegoode
Slovenia: Bjana is an exciting sparkling wine project in Brda
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Slovenia: Bjana is an exciting sparkling wine project in Brda

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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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