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  • 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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Restaurants: celebrating 10 years of the Barbary, Neal’s Yard, with its countertop-only dining spanning southern Europe to north Africa

July 8, 2026 jamiegoode 1086 Views Restaurants

Website: https://www.thebarbary.co.uk/neals-yard Great meal last night at The Barbary, Neal’s Yard (London). It’s one of two locations for this amazing

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Features Highlights Latest South Africa TOP STORIES 

Highlights: Klein Constantia Vin de Constance 2023 South Africa

July 8, 2026July 8, 2026 jamiegoode 2383 Views Constantia, sweet wines

This is the latest vintage of one of the world’s great sweet wines. It’s the Vin de Constance from Klein

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Champagne Highlights Latest 

Highlights: Champagne Bruno Paillard Blanc de Blancs 2015

July 7, 2026July 7, 2026 jamiegoode 1029 Views

Champagne Bruno Paillard Blanc de Blancs Extra Brut 2015 France12% alcohol. From the warm, dry vintage of 2015 this is

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Highlights: Morandé La Capilla El Cabernet de Ránguil 2021 Itata, Chile

July 5, 2026 jamiegoode 880 Views Cabernet Sauvignon, Itata

This is quite special. It’s from 130 year old ungrafted vines planted on degraded granite soils, with a red clay

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Highlights Latest South Africa 

Highlights: Cecilia Wines Cinsault 2025 Piekenierskloof, South Africa

July 4, 2026 jamiegoode 1047 Views Cinsault

Cinsault was historically a hugely important red grape for South Africa. Often, red ‘varietals’ from fancy grapes like Cabernet Sauvignon

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Features Latest New York State 

Excursions off the Riesling trail: what else can the Finger Lakes do?

July 3, 2026 jamiegoode 1257 Views

This was a seminar at the FLXcursion event that I’ve just come back from. The goal was to explore the

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Austria Features Latest 

Weingut Frank, one of the stars of Austria’s Weinviertel region

July 2, 2026 jamiegoode 1090 Views Weinviertel

Website: https://www.weingutfrank.at/englishhome Frank is a family winery that’s been going since 1724. They’re currently farming 23 hectares of vines, and

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Austria Features Latest 

The wines of Weingut Kurz, Weinviertel, Austria

July 2, 2026July 2, 2026 jamiegoode 852 Views Weinviertel

Website: https://www.weingutkurz.at/ Eric Kurz (pictured above) is the third generation in this family winery, and makes 80% white wines and 20%

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England Features Latest 

A trio of impressive Pet Nats from UK winery Westwell

July 2, 2026 jamiegoode 925 Views Pet Nat

Westwell are nailing Pet Nat. Everyone makes one, and sometimes they are accidentally good. But to do it well consistently

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California Highlights Latest 

Highlights: Gallo of Sonoma Frei Ranch Vineyard Single Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon 2001

July 1, 2026 jamiegoode 837 Views Cabernet Sauvignon, Sonoma

Pleasantly surprised by this older Californian Cabernet. Gallo of Sonoma Frei Ranch Vineyard Single Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon 2001 Dry Creek

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Celebrating 25 years of Filipa Pato’s wines with an amazing lunch and tasting
Features Latest Portugal Regions TOP STORIES 

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.

Since then it has grown, and Jamie is now a full-time wine writer, lecturer, wine judge and book author.

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