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  • Lunch at Treadwell (Niagara, Canada) with some lovely wines: Ulysses Colin, La Rogerie and Comando G
  • Canada’s Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys (11) Lake Breeze
  • Restaurants: Fat Rabbit, St Catharines, Niagara – so good I went twice in a week
  • The concept of island wines is now firmly established: a tasting with Pascaline Lepeltier
  • Alentejeo Spotlight: on the road in Manchester, Edinburgh and Bristol with some interesting wines from this Portuguese region
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Denmark Features Latest 

The wines of Hideaway Vingård, Denmark

May 25, 2025May 25, 2025 jamiegoode 2413 Views

Website: www.hideawayvingaard.dk  Hideaway is a 2.2 hectare property with 1.3 hectares of vines. They also grow figs, apricots and peaches

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Features Italy Latest Regions 

Isole e Olena and Cepparello: new releases from this important Chianti Classico estate

May 13, 2025May 13, 2025 jamiegoode 4295 Views Chianti Classico, Sangiovese

Back in 1956, just as sharecropping was ending, the De Marchi family of Piedmont bought two estates in San Donato,

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Danish wine: a study on this small but fast-growing cool climate wine scene

January 19, 2025January 19, 2025 jamiegoode 6630 Views Denmark

This was a seminar at the 2025 Cool Climate Wine Summit in Copenhagen, led by René Langdahl and Torben Toldam

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Features Latest Portugal Regions 

Quinta da Pedra Alta, a new Douro star, with consultant winemaker Matt Gant

January 6, 2025January 7, 2025 jamiegoode 7920 Views Douro

Website: https://www.qpa.pt/ Matt Gant is a winemaker from Western Australia, but previously he was based in the Barossa, where he

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Bordeaux Features Latest TOP STORIES 

Bordeaux 2022: tasting the wines from this much-hyped vintage now they are in bottle

November 7, 2024November 7, 2024 jamiegoode 16373 Views

Each year I look forward to tasting the most recently bottled vintage of Bordeaux. These wines will have been shown

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Features Latest Rhone 

Exploring Lirac (2) Clos du Jas

August 5, 2024August 5, 2024 jamiegoode 3069 Views

Grégory Sergent (pictured above) is the man behind Clos du Jas. He spent 15 years as a paratrooper in the

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Features Latest Rhone 

Exploring Lirac (1) Château Boucarut

August 5, 2024August 5, 2024 jamiegoode 2970 Views Lirac

Château Boucarut is a new producer in Lirac. Saskia and Maurice Goetschy established the domaine in Roquemure in 2017. They

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Champagne Highlights Latest 

Highlights: Champagne Henriot Brut Souverain NV

August 4, 2024 jamiegoode 3024 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 2910 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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Features Latest 

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

August 3, 2024August 8, 2024 jamiegoode 4447 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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Canada’s Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys (11) Lake Breeze
Canada Features Latest 

Canada’s Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys (11) Lake Breeze

June 24, 2026June 24, 2026 jamiegoode

Website: https://www.lakebreeze.ca/ Lake Breeze is on the Naramata Bench, and since 2021 has been owned by the McIntyre family. The

The concept of island wines is now firmly established: a tasting with Pascaline Lepeltier
Features Latest Spain 

The concept of island wines is now firmly established: a tasting with Pascaline Lepeltier

June 23, 2026June 23, 2026 jamiegoode
Alentejeo Spotlight: on the road in Manchester, Edinburgh and Bristol with some interesting wines from this Portuguese region
Features Latest Portugal Regions 

Alentejeo Spotlight: on the road in Manchester, Edinburgh and Bristol with some interesting wines from this Portuguese region

June 23, 2026June 23, 2026 jamiegoode
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Features Food and wine Latest 

Yuki Bar revisited: one of London’s best spots for natural wine

June 22, 2026June 22, 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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