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Profiles

Alsace Features Profiles 

Rolly Gassmann: singular wines from Alsace

July 20, 2022 jamiegoode 6428 Views

Website: Domaine Rolly Gassmann Rolly Gassmann is one of the most singular producers in Alsace. They are based in Rorschwihr,

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Profiles Regions South Africa 

Oldenburg, Banhoek, South Africa: Nic Van Aaarde is doing great work with this Stellenbosch producer

July 17, 2022August 3, 2022 jamiegoode 6231 Views Stellenbosch

Website: https://oldenburgvineyards.com/ There’s a special place in Stellenbosch, and it goes under two variants of the same name. Banghoek and

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Canada Features Profiles Regions 

In Niagara (4) Cloudsley Cellars

July 16, 2022July 16, 2022 jamiegoode 5388 Views

Website: https://cloudsleycellars.com/ Adam Lowy worked for premium Toronto-based importer Lifford Wines for a couple of decades before setting out on

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Features Portugal Profiles 

Visiting Quinta do Infantado: a leading producer of Port and table wines from Portugal’s Douro

July 3, 2022August 3, 2022 jamiegoode 7537 Views Douro

Website: https://quintadoinfantado.com/en/ I first visited Quinta do Infantado 20 years ago, in May 2002 when I toured the Douro for

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Austria Profiles Regions 

The wines of Heinrich, one of Austria’s most singular producers

June 24, 2022July 7, 2022 jamiegoode 10220 Views biodynamics, Burgenland, Limestone, Schist

Jamie Goode and Treve Ring report on this important Burgenland producer Gernot and Heike Heinrich are custodians of one of

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England Features Profiles 

Black Chalk: visiting one of the UK’s leading sparkling wineries

June 23, 2022August 3, 2022 Lisse Garnett 7608 Views

Chance delivered both opportunity and killer blows to Black Chalk in quick succession – it was to prove the making

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Canada Profiles Regions 

In Niagara (2) Tawse and Redstone

June 22, 2022August 3, 2022 jamiegoode 5615 Views

Stop two on the Niagara journey was at Redstone winery in Beamsville, to taste their wines but also those of

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Canada Features Profiles Regions 

In Niagara (1) Hidden Bench

June 19, 2022July 7, 2022 jamiegoode 4539 Views

Hidden Bench is one of Niagara’s leading boutique wineries. Owner Harald Thiel bought the Locust Lane vineyard, where the winery

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Features Profiles Slovenia 

In Slovenia (4) visiting Roka, in Kog

May 30, 2022August 3, 2022 jamiegoode 7349 Views

Liam and Sinead Cabot hail from Ireland, where they currently run a successful wine importing business, Cabot & Co https://www.cabotandco.com/

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Profiles Slovenia 

In Slovenia (1) visiting Šuklje in Bela Krajina

May 23, 2022July 10, 2022 jamiegoode 6420 Views

Website: http://suklje.com/en/vineyards/ My Slovenian wine adventures began in the eastern region of Bela Krajina (pronounced ‘bella cry-ner’). It’s a small

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Brent Marris, Emma Marris and The Ned, tasting wines from one of Marlborough’s (NZ) emerging dynasties
Features Latest New Zealand 

Brent Marris, Emma Marris and The Ned, tasting wines from one of Marlborough’s (NZ) emerging dynasties

May 12, 2026May 12, 2026 jamiegoode

The Marris dynasty are an important part of Marlborough’s past, present, and surely future. John Marris was the land agent

Brunia, an exciting cool-climate wine project from South Africa’s Walker Bay
Features Latest Regions South Africa 

Brunia, an exciting cool-climate wine project from South Africa’s Walker Bay

May 11, 2026May 11, 2026 jamiegoode
Cantina Antonioli are making lovely natural wines in the foothills of the Apennine mountain range in Italy’s Umbria
Features Italy Latest 

Cantina Antonioli are making lovely natural wines in the foothills of the Apennine mountain range in Italy’s Umbria

May 10, 2026May 12, 2026 jamiegoode
La Biancara di Angiolino e Alessandro Maule: meet one of Italy’s most celebrated natural wine producers
Features Italy Latest Regions 

La Biancara di Angiolino e Alessandro Maule: meet one of Italy’s most celebrated natural wine producers

May 9, 2026May 9, 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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