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Visiting Domaine Huet, the best-known winery in Vouvray

February 17, 2026February 17, 2026 jamiegoode 3583 Views Chenin Blanc, Vouvray

Website: https://www.domainehuet.com/ Huet is one of the great names of the Loire, and perhaps the most famous winery in Vouvray.

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Features Latest New Zealand 

North Canterbury, New Zealand (10) Pegasus Bay

February 16, 2026February 16, 2026 jamiegoode 1721 Views North Canterbury

Back in 1976, Christchurch neurologist Ivan Donaldson had caught the wine bug, and with some of his medical friends planted

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Chile Features Latest 

L’Entremetteuse: lovely natural wines from a French expat in Colchagua, Chile

February 2, 2026February 2, 2026 jamiegoode 1636 Views Natural wine

Website: https://lentremetteuseandco.cl/ French expat Laurence Réal studied in Montpellier and then moved to Chile 32 years ago. She’s been working

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Matías Riccitelli, making some of Argentia’s best wines

February 1, 2026 jamiegoode 2193 Views mendoza

Website: https://matiasriccitelli.com/en/ Matías Riccitelli is one of Argentina’s most exciting winegrowers. He haild from the north – Cafayate in Salta

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The 2022s from Abruzzo star winery Emidio Pepe

January 31, 2026January 31, 2026 jamiegoode 2035 Views Abruzzo

Popped into Dynamic Vines today and tasted through the 2022s from Emidio Pepe, a remarkable winery that I’ve written about

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Douloufakis, making impressive wines from Crete, Greece

January 30, 2026 jamiegoode 2485 Views Crete

Website: https://douloufakis.wine/en/ Douloufakis is based in the village of Dafnes, near Heraklion, in Crete. Vines are farmed organically and winemaking

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Features Latest New Zealand 

North Canterbury, New Zealand (5) Fernbank

January 19, 2026February 16, 2026 jamiegoode 2071 Views North Canterbury

Website: https://www.fernbank.wine/ Helen and Matt Barbour run a viticultural consultancy company (Barbour Vines) as well as some very well situated

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California Features Latest 

Gallo, the world’s largest wine company, has three insanely large wineries in California

January 17, 2026October 10, 2026 jamiegoode 9441 Views

Gallo (they dropped the E&J bit in 2024) own the three largest wineries in the world. They don’t tend to

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2025, a wine year in pictures

January 1, 2026January 1, 2026 jamiegoode 1781 Views

Here’s a selection of pictures from 2025. Quite a year.

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Transmission: an exciting new wine project in Portugal’s Bairrada wine region

December 14, 2025January 19, 2026 jamiegoode 7415 Views Bairrada

Transmission is an exciting new wine project from Bairrada. It’s a partnership between three people, and was begun as a

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Loosen Barry: where the Clare Valley meets the Mosel, a Riesling collaboration
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Loosen Barry: where the Clare Valley meets the Mosel, a Riesling collaboration

October 11, 2026October 11, 2026 jamiegoode

Website: https://www.jimbarry.com/news/loosenbarry-unique-collaboration-meeting-minds-shared-obsession Loosen Barry is a fun (and quite serious) joint Riesling project, and I did a deep dive into

All Good Things: tasting three examples from this new supermarket-targeted brand
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All Good Things: tasting three examples from this new supermarket-targeted brand

October 9, 2026October 9, 2026 jamiegoode
Canadian Sparkling Wine: a rare tasting crossing the country, with 24 different wines
Canada Features Latest Regions 

Canadian Sparkling Wine: a rare tasting crossing the country, with 24 different wines

October 9, 2026October 9, 2026 jamiegoode
Eight wines under £10 that offer amazing value, from The Wine Society
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Eight wines under £10 that offer amazing value, from The Wine Society

October 8, 2026October 8, 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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