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Highlights Latest New Zealand 

Highlights: The Hermit Ram Salty White 2022

January 15, 2024January 15, 2024 jamiegoode 5189 Views North Canterbury

This is a blend of Pinot Blanc, Sauvignon Blanc and Riesling from organic vineyards in North Canterbury. They are fermented

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Features Latest Loire 

A Centre Loire study: seven wines, red and white

January 14, 2024 jamiegoode 2199 Views

Tasted these Centre Loire wines together. It’s an interesting region and there are lots of good terroirs here. I visited

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Restaurants: Gymkhana, London

January 14, 2024January 14, 2024 jamiegoode 10073 Views Restaurants

Restaurants: Gymkhana Website: https://gymkhanalondon.com/ I first visited Gymkhana back in September 2014, about a year after it opened. This was

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Highlights: Everflyht Brut NV Sussex, England

January 12, 2024January 12, 2024 jamiegoode 3059 Views

Website: https://www.everflyht.com/ This is a single vineyard estate at the foot of Ditchling Beacon in the South Downs, in East

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Features Italy Latest 

Chianti Classico deep dive (3) Fèlsina

January 11, 2024January 11, 2024 jamiegoode 3332 Views Chianti Classico

Website: https://www.felsina.it/en/ Like many of Chianti Classico’s grand properties, the land at the extensive Fèlsina estate was farmed by sharecroppers

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Features Latest South Africa 

The Old Road Wine Co, a Franschhoek-based winery making some impressive single-vineyard wines

January 11, 2024March 17, 2026 jamiegoode 6159 Views Franschhoek

Website: https://oldroadwinecompany.com/ The Old Road Wine Ci is part of the larger Douglas Green Bellingham (DGB) group, and owned by

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Latest South Africa Videos 

Video: the famous La Colline Semillon vineyard in Franschhoek, South Africa

January 11, 2024January 11, 2024 jamiegoode 5541 Views Semillon

Old Road Wine Co winemaker Ryan Puttick introduces the La Colline Vineyard in Franschhoek, South Africa. Planted in 1936 by

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Highlights Latest Portugal 

Highlights : Filipa Pato & William Wouters Flos Castanea 2022, Bairrada, Portugal

January 10, 2024 Treve Ring 3775 Views Bairrada, biodynamic

This experimental project was made with the grandson of Vinho Verde biodynamic pioneer Fernando Paiva, of Quinta da Palmirinha. Paiva

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Features Latest Portugal TOP STORIES 

Visiting Constantino Ramos, resurrecting the red wines of Monção and Melgaço in the Vinho Verde region of Portugal

January 9, 2024January 9, 2024 jamiegoode 5321 Views Vinho Verde

‘My background is from the pharmaceutical industry,’ says Constantino. ‘My family didn’t produce wine.’ He did a degree in pharmacy

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Latest Portugal Videos 

Video: visiting Constantino Ramos, one of the most exciting producers in Portugal’s Vinho Verde region

January 8, 2024 jamiegoode 4589 Views Vinho Verde

Constantino Ramos came from the pharmaceutical industry, where he was running clinical trials, and shifted to his passion, wine. He

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Ca’Marcanda: 30 years of Gaja’s Tuscan outpost
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Ca’Marcanda: 30 years of Gaja’s Tuscan outpost

March 24, 2026March 24, 2026 jamiegoode

Bolgheri’s natural beauty drew the 57 year old Angelo Gaja to spread his winemaking wings out from Piemonte in 1996,

New releases from Stellenbosch star Meerlust
Features Latest South Africa 

New releases from Stellenbosch star Meerlust

March 23, 2026 jamiegoode
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

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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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