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cloudy bay sauvignon blanc 2025
Highlights Latest New Zealand 

Highlights: Cloudy Bay Sauvignon Blanc 2025 Marlborough, New Zealand

October 29, 2025 jamiegoode 7145 Views Marlborough, Sauvignon Blanc

First look at the 2025 vintage in Marlborough by way of one of the region’s classics, the Cloudy Bay Sauvignon

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Video: the Port harvest in the Douro, 2025, with Taylor’s

October 28, 2025October 28, 2025 jamiegoode 4016 Views Douro

Website: https://www.taylor.pt/ 2025 will go down as one of the trickiest vintages of recent years, simply because it was very

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California Features Latest 

Cruse x Hirsch, tasting some Californian gems from this star partnership

October 28, 2025October 29, 2025 jamiegoode 2247 Views

Californians Jasmine Hirsch and Michael Cruse are partners in life and wine, and they came to London to share their

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Hatzidakis: a deep dive into these top Santorini wines

October 27, 2025 jamiegoode 3901 Views Santorini

Website: https://www.hatzidakiswines.gr/ Hatzidakis are one of the best-known producers from the Greek Island of Santorini, and they were in town

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Australia Features Latest 

Yarra Valley (5) Yarra Yering

October 25, 2025December 15, 2025 jamiegoode 3751 Views Yarra Valley

Website: https://www.yarrayering.com/ One of Australia’s vinous treasures, Yarra Yering was set up by the eccentric genius Dr Bailey Carrodus, who

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Tarrawarra winery, Yarra Valley
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Yarra (3) Tarrawarra

October 25, 2025December 15, 2025 jamiegoode 2208 Views Yarra Valley

Website: https://www.tarrawarra.com.au/ It was a lovely sunny late-spring morning when I visited Tarrawarra’s Swallowfield vineyard with winemaker Sarah Fagan and

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Australia Features Latest 

Yarra Valley (2) Oakridge

October 25, 2025December 15, 2025 jamiegoode 2566 Views Yarra Valley

Website: https://oakridgewines.com.au/ Oakridge has been through quite a few changes over the last 47 years, since its first vineyard was

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Australia Features Latest 

Yarra Valley (4) Jayden Ong Wines

October 25, 2025December 15, 2025 jamiegoode 2221 Views Yarra Valley

Website: https://jaydenong.com/ ‘I don’t like following rules,’ says Jayden Ong (pictured above) as I meet him in his winery and

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Australia Features Latest 

Yarra Valley: exploring this important Australian wine region

October 25, 2025December 15, 2025 jamiegoode 2313 Views Yarra Valley

The Yarra Valley was for a long time the land of the Wurundjeri people, and the history of human occupation

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Features Hungary Latest 

Hungarian wines at Georgie’s Ruin Bar

October 24, 2025 jamiegoode 1278 Views

Ruin Bars are a special feature of Budapest nightlife. They started up in the early 2000s as impromptu bars in

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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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