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A big tasting of Japanese wines

August 4, 2025August 4, 2025 jamiegoode 2386 Views

I’ve been following Japanese wine for a while, and a while back I attended a large tasting of Japanese wines

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The disappearing middle

August 3, 2025August 3, 2025 jamiegoode 1501 Views Business of wine

We see lots of cheap wine, lots of expensive wine, but what’s happened to all those mid-priced wines? One of

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Restaurants: LOC, Adelaide, a small but perfectly formed natural wine bar and restaurant

August 2, 2025 jamiegoode 1153 Views Natural wine, Restaurants

Website: https://locdotcom.au/ There’s something very special and intimate about dining at LOC, a natural wine bar and restaurant in Adelaide.

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Rosé roundup: tasting and rating a wide selection of pink wines

August 2, 2025August 6, 2025 jamiegoode 3221 Views

Rosé is an important wine category, but still it struggles to be taken seriously by wine geeks. But it’s commercially

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Mouchão: lovely wines from this traditional Alentejo winery

August 1, 2025August 1, 2025 jamiegoode 710 Views Alentejo

Website: https://mouchao.pt/en/ One of the most highly regarded Alentejo wineries, Mouchão has always been a bit different to its peers.

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Books: The New California by Elaine Chukan Brown

July 31, 2025 jamiegoode 1138 Views Books

Ever since I heard that Elaine Chukan Brown was writing a book on Californian Wine, I was waiting to see

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Mini-Chardonnay study, with a sea bass lunch: Meursault, West Auckland, Hawke’s Bay, Eden Valley

July 30, 2025 jamiegoode 677 Views Chardonnay

There are so many places making good Chardonnay now, and quite a few regions are achieving greatness with this variety

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MAULE: SMALL-SCALE ETHICAL PRODUCERS KEEP RURAL COMMUNITIES ALIVE WHILST MAKING SOME OF THE MOST EXCITING WINES IN LATIN AMERICA 

July 29, 2025July 30, 2025 Lisse Garnett 4957 Views Organic Chile

Time to drink up, says Lisse Garnett.. The UK drinks more Chilean wine than anyone else. Market contractions challenge this

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What the cool kids drink! A dinner at Noble Rot with friends

July 29, 2025July 29, 2025 jamiegoode 1220 Views

This was a gathering of 10 friends at Noble Rot, convened by Emily Harman. We all brought a couple of

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Prospects for disease-resistant varieties in Marlborough and elsewhere: will we soon see Cloudy Bay Sauvignon made from a PIWI?

July 28, 2025August 27, 2025 jamiegoode 3147 Views

Jim White from Cloudy Bay presented at the 2025 Australian Wine Industry Technical Conference on the topic of disease-resistant grape

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Paying more for quality, and the crisis of affordability in wine
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Paying more for quality, and the crisis of affordability in wine

October 8, 2025October 8, 2025 jamiegoode

It costs money to make wine. Quite a bit of it, if it’s done well. The chief problem is this:

Visiting Aya Estate for the opening of their winery: Bulgarian wine playing at a new level
Bulgaria Features Latest Regions 

Visiting Aya Estate for the opening of their winery: Bulgarian wine playing at a new level

October 7, 2025October 7, 2025 jamiegoode
Bonhams is auctioning off the cellar of Locanda Locatelli, and a few of us get to try some of the gems over lunch
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Bonhams is auctioning off the cellar of Locanda Locatelli, and a few of us get to try some of the gems over lunch

October 6, 2025October 6, 2025 jamiegoode
A quick guide to New Zealand wine
Features Latest New to wine New Zealand Regions 

A quick guide to New Zealand wine

October 5, 2025October 6, 2025 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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