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  • Lunch at Treadwell (Niagara, Canada) with some lovely wines: Ulysses Colin, La Rogerie and Comando G
  • Canada’s Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys (11) Lake Breeze
  • Restaurants: Fat Rabbit, St Catharines, Niagara – so good I went twice in a week
  • The concept of island wines is now firmly established: a tasting with Pascaline Lepeltier
  • Alentejeo Spotlight: on the road in Manchester, Edinburgh and Bristol with some interesting wines from this Portuguese region
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Portugal Profiles TOP STORIES 

Taboadella, an exciting new winery from Portugal’s Dão region

July 1, 2020July 2, 2020 jamiegoode 9015 Views Dao

The Amorim Group’s main activity is cork, but they are now getting increasingly involved in wine production. For 20 years,

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Bordeaux Profiles Regions 

Popcorn from Bordeaux: innovating to save a struggling Château

July 1, 2020July 1, 2020 jamiegoode 8947 Views

Bordeaux is defined in most peoples’ minds by the classed growths of the Médoc – the 4%. But this is

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California Profiles 

TOR: high-end Cabernet from Napa

June 25, 2020 jamiegoode 9054 Views Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa

Tor Kenward spent 27 years with Beringer. When he retired in 2001, he set up his own winery, TOR Wines,

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Bordeaux Profiles TOP STORIES 

In Bordeaux: Château Pedesclaux is a Pauillac star reborn

June 24, 2020June 24, 2020 jamiegoode 9951 Views

Pedesclaux is a Bordeaux Château that has been transformed. I visited in March 2019 with the director Vincent Bache-Gabrielsen and

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Canada Profiles 

Honsberger, a new star in Niagara, Canada

June 16, 2020 jamiegoode 6884 Views Niagara

Website: https://honsbergerestate.com/ Honsberger is a relatively new winery in Niagara. It’s a family owned property in Jordan, and the background

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Profiles South Africa 

Johan Meyer and his new home in the Swartland – some of South Africa’s top natural wines

June 16, 2020October 7, 2020 jamiegoode 14348 Views Natural wine, swartland

Johan Meyer, known affectionately by everyone as Stompie, is one of the leading natural winegrowers in South Africa. He’s been

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Champagne Latest Profiles 

In Champagne: Pol Roger

June 12, 2020 jamiegoode 13091 Views

Goode and Ring continue their series on Champagne with a visit to Pol Roger in Épernay. Family-owned Pol Roger is

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Canada Features Profiles Regions 

Megalomaniac, Niagara, Canada – interview and tasting with Sébastien Jacquey

June 10, 2020June 10, 2020 jamiegoode 8569 Views Niagara

Sébastien Jacquey is winemaker at Megalomaniac in Canada’s Niagara wine region, but he’s actually a transplant from France. It was

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Profiles Spain 

Ribera del Duero: Pago De Los Capellanes

June 8, 2020June 8, 2020 jamiegoode 7449 Views

Website: Pago de Los Capellanes One of the top wineries in the region, Pago de Los Capellanes is owned by

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Argentina Profiles 

Pecne Te, a Swiss-owned winery in Mendoza, Argentina

June 7, 2020 jamiegoode 7863 Views

Website: https://www.pecnete.com/ I like serendipity. I was sent these samples to taste by the partners in the winery, who used

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Features

Canada’s Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys (11) Lake Breeze
Canada Features Latest 

Canada’s Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys (11) Lake Breeze

June 24, 2026June 24, 2026 jamiegoode

Website: https://www.lakebreeze.ca/ Lake Breeze is on the Naramata Bench, and since 2021 has been owned by the McIntyre family. The

The concept of island wines is now firmly established: a tasting with Pascaline Lepeltier
Features Latest Spain 

The concept of island wines is now firmly established: a tasting with Pascaline Lepeltier

June 23, 2026June 23, 2026 jamiegoode
Alentejeo Spotlight: on the road in Manchester, Edinburgh and Bristol with some interesting wines from this Portuguese region
Features Latest Portugal Regions 

Alentejeo Spotlight: on the road in Manchester, Edinburgh and Bristol with some interesting wines from this Portuguese region

June 23, 2026June 23, 2026 jamiegoode
yuki bar
Features Food and wine Latest 

Yuki Bar revisited: one of London’s best spots for natural wine

June 22, 2026June 22, 2026 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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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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