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Highlights: Riverview Pinot Noir 2021 Crouch Valley, Essex

July 23, 2024July 23, 2024 jamiegoode 3470 Views pinot noir

Website: https://riverviewcrouchvalley.com/ It’s an interesting time for English still wines at the moment, and the Crouch Valley in Essex is

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Highlights: Cruse Wine Co Sparkling White Zinfandel

July 22, 2024July 22, 2024 jamiegoode 3677 Views Zinfandel

White Zinfandel is a category that rarely makes it to these pages (although it does get a mention in this

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Highlights: Weyborne, a new-ish English sparkling wine producer tilting at the top

July 20, 2024July 20, 2024 jamiegoode 4228 Views Sparkling wine

Owner Nick Clarke to purchased the historic Blackdown Park estate in 2010 (near Haslemere, Surrey), and has planted 25 acres

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Russian River Valley, Sonoma, California (2) Beyond Pinot Noir

July 20, 2024November 4, 2024 jamiegoode 4238 Views Russian River Valley

The Russian River Valley’s fame is largely due to its excellence with Pinot Noir, but there is more to this

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Russian River Valley, Sonoma, California (1): exploring the neighbourhoods through the lens of Pinot Noir

July 20, 2024November 4, 2024 jamiegoode 12002 Views pinot noir, Russian River Valley, Sonoma

Back in 2003 the Russian River Pinot Forum was first established. The goal was to educate wine buyers about what

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Discovering the Mâconnais (3) Château de la Greffière

July 19, 2024August 11, 2025 jamiegoode 6502 Views Maconnais

Website: https://chateaudelagreffiere.com/en/ Greffière is an exciting producer in the Mâconnais, based in La Roche Vineuse, and they also have a

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Discovering the Mâconnais (2) Terres Secrètes

July 19, 2024August 11, 2025 jamiegoode 4955 Views Maconnais

Website: https://terres-secretes.com/en/ The wine world needs good, affordable wine, and when cooperatives are well run, they can help provide it.

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The wines of Dugat Py, a leading domaine in Gevrey-Chambertin, Bourgogne

July 17, 2024July 10, 2026 jamiegoode 8271 Views

Website: http://www.dugat-py.com Things are changing in Burgundy (or Bourgogne, as the region now likes to be called). A new generation

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Alsace adventure (5) heading north to see Mochel, Pfister and Loew

July 15, 2024July 15, 2024 jamiegoode 3975 Views

On a rainy October day in Alsace, Lars Daniels and I headed up to meet three producers working in the

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Alsace adventure (4) the wines of domaine Justin Boxler

July 14, 2024July 14, 2024 jamiegoode 6214 Views

Website: www.vinsboxler.fr We visited Domaine Justin Boxler with Charlotte Boxler (pictured above), who now runs the domaine with her cousin

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Celebrating 25 years of Filipa Pato’s wines with an amazing lunch and tasting
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Celebrating 25 years of Filipa Pato’s wines with an amazing lunch and tasting

October 30, 2026October 30, 2026 jamiegoode

Flipa Pato, daughter of famous Bairrada winegrower Luis Pato, first started making her own wines 25 years ago, in 2001.

Rabasco: beautiful natural wines from Abruzzo, Italy
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Rabasco: beautiful natural wines from Abruzzo, Italy

October 28, 2026October 28, 2026 jamiegoode
With these twelve wines, Juampi Michellini, Matias Riccitelli, Rafael Urreloja and Derek Mossman Knapp illustrate Argentina and Chile’s precocious ability to express the best in any variety 
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With these twelve wines, Juampi Michellini, Matias Riccitelli, Rafael Urreloja and Derek Mossman Knapp illustrate Argentina and Chile’s precocious ability to express the best in any variety 

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Three wines from a new producer in Oxfordshire (UK): Yew Tree Vineyard

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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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