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Features Latest Regions South Africa 

New releases from Savage, one of South Africa’s very top producers

June 11, 2025June 11, 2025 jamiegoode 2051 Views

Website: https://www.savagewines.com/ Duncan Savage has established himself as one of South Africa’s top producers, and each year he seems to

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Highlights: Champagne Alfred Gratien Cuvée Paradis 2015

June 9, 2025June 9, 2025 jamiegoode 1572 Views

Website: https://www.alfredgratien.com/en/home/ This is the prestige cuvée from Alfred Gratien, who do a lot of barrel work with their base

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Features Latest Portugal 

Gonçalves Faria: serious, classic Bairrada wines, now under the Niepoort stable

June 9, 2025 jamiegoode 990 Views Bairrada

António Maia Ferreira Faria was a celebrated producer of classic, long-lived Bairrada under the Gonçalves Faria label, working with some

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Features Latest Spain 

Bendito Destino: a brilliant new project in Spain’s Ribero del Duero

June 8, 2025June 8, 2025 jamiegoode 2624 Views Ribera del Duero

Website: https://www.benditodestino.wine/ Terry Kandylis was head sommelier at 67 Pall Mall, and then spent a year working for Caprice Holdings,

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Visiting the Kernel brewery in Bermondsey, the Grand Cru of the UK beer scene

June 7, 2025June 8, 2025 jamiegoode 1179 Views beer

Website: https://www.thekernelbrewery.com/index.php For a while, I ran a beer blog, with Daniel Primack. It was quite fun, even if it

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Features Latest Portugal Spain TOP STORIES 

The new wines from the Marco de Jerez: Sherry and Manzanilla reinvented, by going back to the past

June 6, 2025 jamiegoode 2702 Views manzanilla, palomino, sherry

In 2008 Niepoort collaborated with Equipo Navazos to make a special wine: an unfortified flor-aged table wine. This was to

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Restaurants: Nopalito, San Francisco

June 6, 2025June 6, 2025 jamiegoode 821 Views Restaurants

Website: https://www.nopalitosf.com/ One great advantage that San Francisco (and the rest of California) has over London is the availability of

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France Latest Regions 

Photos from a day in the vineyards of Roussillon

June 4, 2025June 4, 2025 jamiegoode 1403 Views Roussillon

Amazing landscapes, varied terroirs, more than half of its 19 000 hectares are old vines (50 years plus). More to

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Bordeaux China Features Greece Latest 

Dinner with friends including three interesting Chinese wines

June 2, 2025 jamiegoode 1513 Views

Eddie McDougall was in town so a gathering of the new Canary Wharf Wine Club was convened to welcome him

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Video: Just Another Wine Podcast at the Sublime natural wine festival, Berlin

June 2, 2025 jamiegoode 2323 Views

Emily Harman, Doug Wregg and Jamie Goode, the team behind Just Another Wine Podcast, teamed up at the Sublime Wine

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Alentejo: a study in eight wines, from a region focused on sustainability
Features Latest Portugal 

Alentejo: a study in eight wines, from a region focused on sustainability

October 20, 2025October 20, 2025 jamiegoode

Website: https://sustentabilidade.vinhosdoalentejo.pt/en/wines-of-alentejo-sustainability-programme The Alentejo is an important wine region in southern Portugal, with 23 000 hectares of vines, spread over

It Takes a Village: a remarkable collaborative Australian Claret
Australia Features Latest 

It Takes a Village: a remarkable collaborative Australian Claret

October 20, 2025 jamiegoode
Carlos Raposo, World Wild Wines: in search of precision from Dão, Portugal
Features Latest Portugal 

Carlos Raposo, World Wild Wines: in search of precision from Dão, Portugal

October 19, 2025 jamiegoode
Book review: Jane Masters and Andrew Neather, Rooted in change: the stories behind sustainable wine
Features Latest 

Book review: Jane Masters and Andrew Neather, Rooted in change: the stories behind sustainable wine

October 19, 2025 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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