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Highlights: Jones On the QT Bin 27 Orange Macabeu 2020 France

April 23, 2021 jamiegoode 4872 Views

Jones On the QT Bin 27 Orange Macabeu 2020 FranceJust 450 bottles of this wine made. It’s from a 60

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Escala Humana Livverá Bonarda 2018 Uco Valley, Mendoza, Argentina

April 15, 2021 jamiegoode 4945 Views bonarda

Escala Humana is the project of Germán Masera, who makes wine for Matías Michelini as his day job. This Bonarda

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Loire red review: Touraine, with notes on 22 wines

April 12, 2021June 8, 2021 jamiegoode 8939 Views

This is the second part in my series on the red wines from the Loire. From this tasting, there’s no

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Packwood: wines from Pletternberg Bay, South Africa

March 14, 2021 jamiegoode 5808 Views plettenberg bay

Packwood are based at the far east of Western Cape, on the Garden Route, in a small wine appellation called

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Highlights Latest South Africa 

Highlights: Chasing Rabbits Grenache 2020 Wellington, South Africa

March 13, 2021March 14, 2021 jamiegoode 7073 Views Grenache

This is a lovely lighter-styled red wine from young Grenache vines in Wellington. It’s a collaborative wine, made jointly by

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Curettage: a ‘surgical’ treatment for trunk diseases that seems to work

March 1, 2021 jamiegoode 7981 Views

Jamie Goode reports on a pair of scientific papers that validate the practice of curettage/curetage for treating grapevine trunk diseases.

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Longaví’s ‘Glup’: superb wines from the south of Chile

February 27, 2021 jamiegoode 11261 Views

Longaví is a collaboration between David Nieuwoudt from South Africa and Julio Bouchon of Chile. The wines come from the

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Highlights Latest Rhone 

Domaine Giraud Châteauneuf-du-Pape 2018 Southern Rhône

February 8, 2021 jamiegoode 6589 Views Chateauneuf-du-Pape, Grenache

This is quite a brilliant wine. I was really stunned by how elegant and fine it was – Grenache at

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Highlights: Pinotte! and Aligotte! from Bourgogne

January 26, 2021 jamiegoode 6971 Views Aligote

These are really interesting wines. They are made by Sylvain Pataille, a well respected vigneron from Marsannay, for UK retailer

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Highlights Latest New Zealand 

Millton Crazy by Nature wines: Cosmo Red and Sirius White

January 25, 2021January 25, 2021 jamiegoode 9489 Views biodynamic

I’ve visited James and Annie Millton – biodynamic pioneers in New Zealand’s Gisborne region – a few times now. Here’s

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The wines of Courelas da Torre, Alentejo, Portugal
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The wines of Courelas da Torre, Alentejo, Portugal

March 27, 2026March 27, 2026 jamiegoode

Website: https://www.courelasdatorre.com/en/ This is the first time I’ve tried the wines from this Alentejo producer, based in Redondo, making organic

I visit Champagne Drappier who have just released a remarkable new prestige cuvée aged in wooden eggs called Éclose
Champagne Features Latest Regions 

I visit Champagne Drappier who have just released a remarkable new prestige cuvée aged in wooden eggs called Éclose

March 27, 2026March 27, 2026 jamiegoode
Henschke’s 2022 single-vineyard wines, including a stunning Hill of Grace
Australia Features Latest Profiles TOP STORIES 

Henschke’s 2022 single-vineyard wines, including a stunning Hill of Grace

March 24, 2026March 24, 2026 jamiegoode
Some insights from ProWein’s Agora stage: how innovators are winning the market
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Some insights from ProWein’s Agora stage: how innovators are winning the market

March 24, 2026March 25, 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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