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Is this wine good?

November 26, 2020February 17, 2021 jamiegoode 8970 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 11667 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 11628 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 6411 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 11645 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 7712 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 4978 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 4460 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 4044 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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Sniff my wine: what the nose tells us

March 24, 2015September 23, 2019 jamiegoode 2915 Views

Take a good sniff of your wine. We get a lot of information from our noses in tasting. In fact,

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Bordeaux 2020 in bottle: 106 wines tasted and rated
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Bordeaux 2020 in bottle: 106 wines tasted and rated

January 26, 2023January 26, 2023 jamiegoode

2020 is a much heralded vintage in Bordeaux. Here I got to try many of the top wines in bottle,

The wines of New York State: a snapshot tasting of interesting bottles
Features Latest New York State 

The wines of New York State: a snapshot tasting of interesting bottles

January 24, 2023January 24, 2023 jamiegoode
The wines of Réné Rostaing, Northern Rhône
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The wines of Réné Rostaing, Northern Rhône

January 22, 2023January 22, 2023 jamiegoode
Exploring Costières de Nîmes (3) Michel Gassier and family, adopting regenerative viticulture
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Exploring Costières de Nîmes (3) Michel Gassier and family, adopting regenerative viticulture

January 19, 2023January 22, 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.

This is an explanation of what an anorak is.

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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