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The grapes and the geography

October 17, 2019October 17, 2019 jamiegoode 8839 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 6482 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 4221 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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Does knowledge enhance the enjoyment of wine?

March 24, 2015September 23, 2019 jamiegoode 4594 Views

I once went to a lecture by an eminent philosopher who also happened to be a bit of a wine

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What to look for in a wine

March 24, 2015September 23, 2019 jamiegoode 5935 Views

I’ve talked in earlier ‘new to wine’ articles about how to approach wine tasting, and what the ‘nose’ of a

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Different levels of appreciating wine

March 24, 2015September 29, 2019 jamiegoode 4532 Views

One of the keys to being able to make sense of wine is understanding that there are two different ways

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Saison Wines, an exciting new UK importer of organic French wine
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Saison Wines, an exciting new UK importer of organic French wine

December 12, 2025 jamiegoode

Website: https://saisonwines.carrd.co/ Daphne Teremetz was previously a wine buyer at Waitrose where she worked for 8 years, before setting out

Heinrich: beautiful naturally inclined wines from Austria’s Burgenland region
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Heinrich: beautiful naturally inclined wines from Austria’s Burgenland region

December 8, 2025December 8, 2025 jamiegoode
The impressive wines of Herdade do Rocim and its associated projects, among Portugal’s best
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The impressive wines of Herdade do Rocim and its associated projects, among Portugal’s best

December 7, 2025December 7, 2025 jamiegoode
Slovenia: Edi Simčič, one of the stars of Brda
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Slovenia: Edi Simčič, one of the stars of Brda

December 6, 2025December 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.

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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