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Slovenia: Domaine Slapšak with François Botton, who traded Champagne dreams for Dolejnska

July 4, 2025 jamiegoode 2491 Views Sparkling wine

Website: https://www.domaine-slapsak.com/en/ François Botton is French, and hails from the Champagne region. But he didn’t grow up in a Champagne

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Slovenia: Roka, Kog

July 1, 2025July 3, 2025 jamiegoode 2533 Views

Liam and Sinead Cabot are from Ireland, where they currently run a successful wine importing business, Cabot & Co (https://www.cabotandco.com/).

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California Features Latest Regions 

Zinfandel: California’s own grape, tasting 59 top examples

June 18, 2025June 18, 2025 jamiegoode 26746 Views Zinfandel

My first real encounter with Zinfandel was reading an excellent book by US author David Darlington, titled Angels’ Visits, and

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Restaurants: Angela’s, Margate

June 17, 2025June 17, 2025 jamiegoode 2814 Views Restaurants

Website: https://angelasofmargate.com/ Margate is a seaside town on the Kent coast, and it’s new nickname is Shoreditch on Sea. Why?

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The wines of Hideaway Vingård, Denmark

May 25, 2025May 25, 2025 jamiegoode 2695 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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Isole e Olena and Cepparello: new releases from this important Chianti Classico estate

May 13, 2025May 13, 2025 jamiegoode 4952 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 7361 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 8634 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 17261 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 3259 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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Notes from a remarkable long lunch at Gaveto in Matosinhos, Portugal, with Niepoort, Transmission and friends, plus some amazing Champagnes
Champagne Features Latest Portugal Regions 

Notes from a remarkable long lunch at Gaveto in Matosinhos, Portugal, with Niepoort, Transmission and friends, plus some amazing Champagnes

September 16, 2026 jamiegoode

As far as lunches go, this was one of the best I’ve had in recent years, held at the remarkable

Going to the football? Like good wine? A tasting trip through Islington’s wine bars pairs well with tickets for a north London matchday
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Going to the football? Like good wine? A tasting trip through Islington’s wine bars pairs well with tickets for a north London matchday

September 14, 2026 jamiegoode
Pfalz Riesling: tasting through some of the top examples at the VDP tasting 2026
Features Germany Latest 

Pfalz Riesling: tasting through some of the top examples at the VDP tasting 2026

September 14, 2026September 14, 2026 jamiegoode
the central dozen - 12 central otago pinot noirs
Features Latest New Zealand Regions 

The Central Dozen, an important exercise in telling the contemporary story of Central Otago Pinot Noir through a curated selection of 12 bottles

September 12, 2026September 12, 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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