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Visiting Clos du Temple, home to the world’s most expensive rosé

December 4, 2022December 4, 2022 jamiegoode 8632 Views

Back in 2016 Gerard Bertrand purchased a beautiful estate in the rolling hills of the Haut Cabrières, and from the

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Highlights: four Ports to consider for the festive season

November 21, 2022 jamiegoode 5216 Views Douro, Port

I love Port, and I kind of wish (for the sake of the Port producers) that it wasn’t such a

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Ventoux, making fresh wines in the Southern Rhône

November 19, 2022November 19, 2022 jamiegoode 8046 Views

Mont Ventoux is well known to cycle fans around the world as being a key (and rather brutal) stage in

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The wines of Graeme and Julie Bott (Domaine GJ Bott): what happens when a Kiwi comes to the Northern Rhône and finds love and a vocation

November 11, 2022November 13, 2022 jamiegoode 8227 Views

Website: https://www.domaine-gjbott.fr/en/ Graeme Bott is a Kiwi and he married Julie, who’s French and was born in the northern Rhône.

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Lismore: tasting the latest releases from Samantha O’Keefe in Greyton, South Africa

November 1, 2022November 1, 2022 jamiegoode 5539 Views

Website: https://www.lismore.co.za/ Samantha O’Keefe is a pioneering wine grower in Greyton, where she first planted a wine farm in 2004.

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Highlights: three from Folding Hill in Central Otago, NZ

October 29, 2022 jamiegoode 4778 Views Central Otago

Website: http://www.foldinghill.co.nz/ I’ve been following Folding Hill, which is based in the Bendigo region of Central Otago, since I first

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The Wine Pinnacle Awards 2022 at Resorts World Sentosa, Singapore

October 21, 2022October 21, 2022 jamiegoode 3755 Views

Website: https://www.winepinnacle.com/ At the end of the month, Singapore’s Resorts World Sentosa hosts one of the wine world’s most exciting

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Restaurants: Ouzeri, Cape Town – modern Greek at its best

October 15, 2022October 15, 2022 jamiegoode 4718 Views Restaurants

I really enjoyed lunch at Ouzeri in Cape Town last week, with buddy Chris Groenwald and his 3 year old

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Exciting wines from five new projects high up in Portugal’s Douro region

September 24, 2022 jamiegoode 6874 Views Douro

The Douro Valley is proving to be an exciting place for small winery projects, and one hotspot is in the

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Growing wines in Chile’s northern desert: 10 years of the Tara Atacama project from Ventisquero

September 23, 2022 jamiegoode 8847 Views Chardonnay, pinot noir

Tara is a remarkable wine project in Chile’s Atacama desert. Jamie Goode tastes through the first 10 years of this

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Bordeaux Claret: the new AOC Bordeaux Claret Controllée is an interesting move, broadening the appeal of Bordeaux reds
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Bordeaux Claret: the new AOC Bordeaux Claret Controllée is an interesting move, broadening the appeal of Bordeaux reds

August 6, 2026August 6, 2026 jamiegoode

Bordeaux has a problem. It’s finding it increasingly hard to sell its cheaper red wines. AOP Bordeaux and Bordeaux Supérieur

Beaumes-de-Venise exploration: Domaine Saint Amant
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Beaumes-de-Venise exploration: Domaine Saint Amant

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Beaumes-de-Venise exploration: a big tasting of the reds and the Muscats
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Beaumes-de-Venise exploration: a big tasting of the reds and the Muscats

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Beaumes-de-Venise exploration: Rhonea
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Beaumes-de-Venise exploration: Rhonea

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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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