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Chile Features Latest Profiles 

Visiting Emiliana, an important organic Chilean winery

February 4, 2026February 4, 2026 jamiegoode 1680 Views

Website: https://www.emiliana.cl/en/ Emiliana is an important winery for Chile. I visited with winemaker Noelia Orts (pictured above) in the Los

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Austria Highlights Latest Profiles 

Judith Beck is making some impressive natural wines in Austria’s Burgenland

January 15, 2026January 15, 2026 jamiegoode 1172 Views Natural wine

Website: https://www.weingut-beck.at/ Judith Beck farms 15 hectares of vines in Gols, in the Burgenland. Farming has been biodynamic since 2007,

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Bianka and Daniel Schmitt, making impressive natural wines in Rheinhessen, Germany

January 15, 2026January 15, 2026 jamiegoode 1113 Views

Website: https://biankaunddaniel.de/ I tasted these wines with Bianka Schmitt at the VinNatur festival in Paris, November 2025. The winery has

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Features Latest Portugal Profiles 

Domínio Do Açor, an exciting new producer from Dão, Portugal

January 9, 2026January 9, 2026 jamiegoode 2389 Views

Website: https://dominiodoacor.com/en/ Domínio do Açor is a relatively new project in the Dão region, and it’s already in the peer

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Features Food and wine Latest Profiles South Africa 

Creation, one of the leading wineries from South Africa’s cool-climate Hemel-en-Aarde region

January 5, 2026January 6, 2026 jamiegoode 9408 Views

Website:  https://www.creationwines.com/ High up in the Hemel-en-Arde region lies one of South Africa’s top wine estates – one that has

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Features Profiles South Africa 

New releases from Radford Dale, South Africa: the over-delivering Vinum wines, plus their new organic wines

December 17, 2025December 17, 2025 jamiegoode 12844 Views

Radford Dale are producing some very smart wines at the moment. They are getting the style right (aiming for freshness

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THE STORY OF MADEIRA 

December 3, 2025December 4, 2025 Lisse Garnett 4404 Views

Enthrallingly versatile, everlasting and bomb proof – Madeira is the perfect sup for our uncertain times says Lisse Garnett 400

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Features Profiles Regions Spain 

The wines of Javi Revert, Valencia – a star of the ‘new Spain’ (updated with new notes July 2025)

July 28, 2025October 24, 2025 jamiegoode 10723 Views Valencia

Valencia is a region in eastern Spain not known for fine wine production, but there is one winegrower – Javi

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Visiting Folias de Baco, a Douro winery making compelling natural wines under the Uivo brand (updated June 2025)

June 14, 2025June 15, 2025 jamiegoode 12963 Views Douro

Website: https://www.foliasdebaco.com/ Tiago Sampaio is making some of the Douro’s most interesting natural wines under the Uivo brand. His winery

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Features Profiles Spain 

MacRobert & Canals, new wave Rioja with a terroir focus

May 23, 2025January 15, 2026 jamiegoode 9085 Views Rioja

What happens when a winemaker from the Swartland marries a winemaker from Rioja? Well, he moves there and starts making

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Bordeaux 2025 wines en primeur
Bordeaux Features Latest Regions 

A quick appraisal of the 2025 vintage in Bordeaux

June 3, 2026 jamiegoode

I didn’t get to do primeurs in Bordeaux this spring. In fact I never do primeurs in Bordeaux because it’s

Jean Baptiste Hardy, making beautiful wines in Muscadet
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Jean Baptiste Hardy, making beautiful wines in Muscadet

June 3, 2026June 3, 2026 jamiegoode
anselmo and tiago mendes vinho verde
Features Latest Portugal Regions 

Exploring Vinho Verde: visiting star producer Anselmo Mendes

June 2, 2026June 2, 2026 jamiegoode
antonio madeira dao portugal
Features Latest Portugal 

Current releases from Dão legend Antonio Madeira

June 1, 2026June 1, 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.

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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