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A quick guide to New Zealand wine

October 5, 2025October 6, 2025 jamiegoode 332 Views

New Zealand is a relative newcomer in the roll call of significant wine-producing countries. It wasn’t until the mid-1980s that

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Champagne Features New to wine 

Champagne: an introduction

May 28, 2024August 25, 2024 jamiegoode 9957 Views

Champagne makes the world’s most famous sparkling wines. Here’s a brief introduction to the region and its wines. Where is

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New to wine Wine Science 

What is a grape variety? What is a clone? Unpacking the science

February 9, 2023February 9, 2023 jamiegoode 24576 Views Chardonnay, pinot noir

We talk a lot about clones and grape varieties. But what, precisely, do these terms mean? Let’s first define ‘variety’.

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Pét-Nat: A Primer

December 22, 2022January 23, 2023 Treve Ring 21732 Views pet-nat

You’ve see them on the shelves of hip wine shops and on the lists of hot wine bars. They’re the

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Bringing up a wine: the art of élevage in winemaking

November 17, 2022March 7, 2023 jamiegoode 23953 Views

Wine is a product of fermentation. Yeasts eat the sugar in the grapes and from this produce alcohol. They also

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Whole bunches, clusters and stems in red winemaking: an introduction

April 29, 2022April 29, 2022 jamiegoode 29373 Views

The main difference between red and white wine making is that fermentation for reds almost always takes place in the

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New to wine Wine Science 

The science of old vines

March 22, 2022March 22, 2022 jamiegoode 27349 Views

It’s wonderful to see an old vineyard. The vines, with their gnarly trunks, have been growing and producing grapes for

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New to wine South Africa 

Pieter Ferreira – Modern Day Maestro of Bubbles speaks to Lisse Garnett

March 17, 2022May 15, 2022 Lisse Garnett 19722 Views

Dom Pérignon is a mere fable in the face of Saffer stalwart Pieter Ferreira. Famed for his monk-like dedication to

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Regenerative viticulture: what is it, and why all the fuss now?

November 18, 2021 jamiegoode 36092 Views

There are lots of different ways of farming vineyards. Conventional, sustainable, organic, biodynamic – and now we have the newcomer

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Video: how wine is made

February 28, 2021 jamiegoode 24291 Views

Jamie Goode explains how wine is made, with clips of the process in action from around the wine world.

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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

Website: https://ayaestatevineyards.com/en/ I’m just on my way back from the Struma Valley in southern Bulgaria, where I was attending the

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
Tablas Creek and Château Beaucastel: a Wine Society tasting telling the story of how a leading Rhône domaine fell in love with California
California Features Latest Rhone 

Tablas Creek and Château Beaucastel: a Wine Society tasting telling the story of how a leading Rhône domaine fell in love with California

October 2, 2025October 2, 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.

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