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Highlights Latest South Africa 

Highlights: Chasing Rabbits Grenache 2020 Wellington, South Africa

March 13, 2021March 14, 2021 jamiegoode 7415 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 8339 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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Chile Features Latest Profiles 

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

February 27, 2021 jamiegoode 11863 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 6848 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 7219 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 10033 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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Highlights Latest Profiles Uruguay 

Two from Agostina De Lucca in Uruguay

January 20, 2021 jamiegoode 6666 Views

This time last year I visited De Lucca winery in Uruguay’s Canelones region. You can red the report here. The

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France Highlights Latest 

Highlights: François Villard L’appel des Sereines Syrah 2017, Northern Rhône, France

January 20, 2021 Treve Ring 7019 Views Northern Rhone, syrah

François Villard is well known in the Northern Rhone for his masterful and poetic Côte-Rôtie and Saint-Joseph. Starting off his

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Latest Portugal Profiles 

The wines of Pormenor, Douro, Portugal

January 8, 2021 jamiegoode 11431 Views Douro

Pedro Coelho is the winemaker behind Douro winery Pormenor. He explains that his philosophy is to make wines with minimal

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Books Latest Wine Science 

Nose dive, a field guide to the world’s smells: an important new book from Harold McGee

December 31, 2020December 31, 2020 Lisse Garnett 11535 Views

Most of the experience of wine comes from the sense of smell. Lisse Garnett reviews an exciting new book on

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

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
Features Latest Rhone 

Beaumes-de-Venise exploration: Domaine Saint Amant

August 4, 2026 jamiegoode
Beaumes-de-Venise exploration: a big tasting of the reds and the Muscats
Features Latest Rhone 

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

August 4, 2026August 4, 2026 jamiegoode
Beaumes-de-Venise exploration: Rhonea
Features Latest Rhone 

Beaumes-de-Venise exploration: Rhonea

August 4, 2026August 4, 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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