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Champagne Highlights Latest 

Highlights: Champagne Henriot Brut Souverain NV

August 4, 2024 jamiegoode 2761 Views

Drank this recently and was really impressed. For a NV blend, this is very good quality, with a lovely range

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Features Latest South Africa 

The wines of Jocelyn Hogan, a top producer from South Africa

August 4, 2024August 4, 2024 jamiegoode 2568 Views

Jocelyn Hogan began her wine project in 2014. The wines have always been good but with the 2021 vintage they

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Pink performance: a rosé review with a global selection of wines rated

August 3, 2024August 8, 2024 jamiegoode 3838 Views Rose

Pink wine is such an important category these days. Everyone likes it, it sells well, and it’s a category that

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Trizanne Signature Wines: a single-vineyard approach focusing on the Cape South Coast

July 31, 2024July 31, 2024 jamiegoode 2450 Views

Website: https://www.trizanne.co.za/ Trizanne Barnard is the winegrower behind Trizanne Signature Wines, which she began in 2008, after working for four

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England Features Latest 

Leonardslee, a new sparkling wine producer from Sussex, England

July 31, 2024July 31, 2024 jamiegoode 3299 Views Sparkling wine

Website: https://leonardsleefamilyvineyards.com/leonardslee-wine-estate Leonardslee is the project of Penny Streeter and her family. It’s a Sussex estate that she acquired in

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Highlights Latest Washington State 

Highlights: Hedges Family Estate La Haute Cuvée 2019 Red Mountain, Washington State

July 30, 2024July 30, 2024 jamiegoode 2811 Views

Website: https://hedgesfamilyestate.com/ Hedges Family Estate La Haute Cuvée 2019 Red Mountain, Washington State, USA13.5% alcohol. 93% Cabernet Sauvignon, 3.5% Petit

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California Features Latest 

Russian River Valley, Sonoma, California (3) Emeritus

July 30, 2024November 4, 2024 jamiegoode 4720 Views

Website: https://www.emeritusvineyards.com/ My first visit in Russian River Valley was a great one: Emeritus. This is a winery with two

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Canada Features Latest 

In Niagara (11) Dobbin, an exciting new winery

July 29, 2024July 29, 2024 jamiegoode 4388 Views Niagara

Website: https://dobbinestate.com/ Dobbin is an exciting new winery on the Twenty Mile Bench in Canada’s Niagara region, and it’s based

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Features Latest Wine Science 

Grape vines in the wild: what they looked like before domestication

July 28, 2024July 28, 2024 jamiegoode 8647 Views

I’m fascinated by wild vines. We are so used to seeing vines growing neatly in rows in vineyards that sometimes

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Burgundy Features Latest 

Discovering the Mâconnais (5) Domaine Fichet

July 27, 2024August 11, 2025 jamiegoode 3490 Views Maconnais

Website: www.domainefichet.fr Domaine Fichet is one of the most impressive of the Mâconnais domaines I’ve visited. They are based in

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New releases from Stellenbosch star Meerlust
Features Latest South Africa 

New releases from Stellenbosch star Meerlust

March 23, 2026 jamiegoode

I’ve written up the wines of Meerlust quite extensively here in the past, and most recently from a visit to

The remarkable wines of Anne-Claire Schott, Three Lakes, Switzerland
Features Latest Profiles Switzerland 

The remarkable wines of Anne-Claire Schott, Three Lakes, Switzerland

March 22, 2026 jamiegoode
Visiting Black Chalk, tasting current releases and the exciting 2025 base wine blends, at this superb English sparkling wine producer
England Features Latest Profiles 

Visiting Black Chalk, tasting current releases and the exciting 2025 base wine blends, at this superb English sparkling wine producer

March 20, 2026March 21, 2026 jamiegoode
fryers cove bamboes bay
Features Latest South Africa 

Fryer’s Cove: precise wines from the cool west coast of South Africa

March 20, 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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