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Cheap wines are too good these days

December 8, 2020 jamiegoode 14063 Views

This may sound a strange complaint. Over recent decades, cheap wines have got better. How is that not good news?

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Is this wine good?

November 26, 2020February 17, 2021 jamiegoode 9742 Views

People often seem to lack confidence around wine. Should they be trusting their own conclusions rather than asking for expert

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Five things every wine consumer should know

May 15, 2020May 15, 2020 jamiegoode 12334 Views

Great tasters are made not born Knowledge isn’t compulsory, but it enhances enjoyment ‘Quality’ in wine is context dependent Your

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Wine struggles to speak to most people

May 10, 2020May 10, 2020 jamiegoode 12544 Views

Last night I did a zoom wine tasting for my brother and his wife, and some of his friends. They

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New to wine: grape varieties (1) Sauvignon Blanc

March 29, 2020May 1, 2020 jamiegoode 7212 Views Sauvignon Blanc

As we have discussed here before, there are two ways of understanding wine: the grapes and the geography. So let’s

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What’s all this talk about ‘yields’?

January 3, 2020January 3, 2020 jamiegoode 13539 Views

You don’t have to hang around wine circles too long to hear talk of ‘yields’, and generally, the sentiment is

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Bordeaux: an introduction to the world’s most famous wine region

November 15, 2019 jamiegoode 8507 Views

Continuing my ‘new to wine’ series with an introduction to Bordeaux, in southwest France. We’ve discussed already that there are

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Tasting is a relationship

November 5, 2019November 11, 2019 jamiegoode 5421 Views

When we taste wine, we aren’t acting as measuring devices Before we get to look at wine in detail, please

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The grapes and the geography

October 17, 2019October 17, 2019 jamiegoode 5012 Views

There are two rather different ways to approach wine. Both are needed. Continuing in my somewhat meandering journey into wine,

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Learning to taste

March 24, 2015September 23, 2019 jamiegoode 4553 Views

It sounds a bit silly instructing people how to drink wine. I’m assuming that most people are familiar with the

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The inaugural Cava Meeting: a serious, focused event looking at this important sparkling wine
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The inaugural Cava Meeting: a serious, focused event looking at this important sparkling wine

November 30, 2023November 30, 2023 jamiegoode

WebsiteL https://www.cava.wine/en/news-articles/a-congress-examining-cavas-excellence-will-bring-together-the-worlds-most-influential-prescribers-in-barcelona/ I’m just back from two days of deep immersion into all things Cava: the inaugural Cava meeting, held

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A remarkable Champagne tasting at The Remedy, London

November 29, 2023November 29, 2023 jamiegoode
Tasting the wines of Gabrielskloof and Crystallum, with Peter-Allan Finlayson
Features Latest South Africa 

Tasting the wines of Gabrielskloof and Crystallum, with Peter-Allan Finlayson

November 24, 2023 jamiegoode
The wines of Kershaw: a champion of single-site and even single-clone wines from Elgin, South Africa
Features Latest South Africa 

The wines of Kershaw: a champion of single-site and even single-clone wines from Elgin, South Africa

November 19, 2023 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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