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Hickinbotham: some impressive wines from a special site in South Australia’s McLaren Vale

August 25, 2025 jamiegoode 1889 Views McLaren Vale

Website: https://www.hickinbothamwines.com.au/ The Hickinbotham Clarendon Vineyard is one of the most celebrated sites in Australia’s McLaren Vale. Although its viticultural

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Highlights: Yalumba Samuel’s Collection Bush Vine Grenache 2022

August 25, 2025 jamiegoode 989 Views Barossa, Grenache

Impressed by this Barossa Grenache. It’s a variety that a lot of people are doing very good work with in

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Apehelion: Grenache specialists from Australia’s McLaren Vale

August 17, 2025 jamiegoode 1094 Views Grenache

Website: https://aphelionwine.com.au/ Based in McLaren Vale, Aphelion is a Grenache specialist micro-negociant. It was started by Rob and Lou Mack,

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Highlights: two wines from Frederick Stevenson in South Australia

August 16, 2025August 16, 2025 jamiegoode 1016 Views

Frederick Stevenson is a naturally oriented winegrower in South Australia, and I tried these two wines from him. Frederick Stevenson

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Riley Harrison is making some compelling low intervention wines from top sites in South Australia

August 14, 2025 jamiegoode 1388 Views

Website: https://www.harrison.wine/ Riley Harrison studied winemaking in Adelaide, and ended up working for a big winery: Dorrien Estate. While he

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Exploring the Macedon Ranges (3) Cobaw Ridge and Joshua Cooper Wines

August 6, 2025August 6, 2025 jamiegoode 1267 Views macedon ranges

Cobaw Ridge is a really interesting producer, based on the north side of the Macedon Ranges in Victoria, Australia. When

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Exploring the Macedon Ranges (2): Place of Changing Winds, a remarkable project focusing on Pinot Noir and Chardonnay

August 5, 2025August 6, 2025 jamiegoode 1630 Views macedon ranges

Website: https://www.placeofchangingwinds.com.au/ This is a remarkable project from Robert Walters, who for over 15 years has been wine buyer for

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Exploring the Macedon Ranges (4): Bindi, one of Australia’s leading wineries

August 5, 2025August 6, 2025 jamiegoode 1121 Views macedon ranges

Website: https://bindiwines.com.au/ In the Macedon ranges, a short drive from Melbourne, Michael Dhillon (pictured above) is currently making some of

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Restaurants: LOC, Adelaide, a small but perfectly formed natural wine bar and restaurant

August 2, 2025 jamiegoode 1149 Views Natural wine, Restaurants

Website: https://locdotcom.au/ There’s something very special and intimate about dining at LOC, a natural wine bar and restaurant in Adelaide.

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Restaurants: Pastel Wine Bar, Adelaide, Australia – superb food meets a good wine list in a nice setting

July 27, 2025July 27, 2025 jamiegoode 1251 Views Adelaide Hills, McLaren Vale, Restaurants

Website: https://pastel.bar/ On my first night in Australia, after a drink at East End Cellars, I headed over to Pastel

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Visiting Aya Estate for the opening of their winery: Bulgarian wine playing at a new level
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Visiting Aya Estate for the opening of their winery: Bulgarian wine playing at a new level

October 7, 2025October 7, 2025 jamiegoode

Website: https://ayaestatevineyards.com/en/ I’m just on my way back from the Struma Valley in southern Bulgaria, where I was attending the

Bonhams is auctioning off the cellar of Locanda Locatelli, and a few of us get to try some of the gems over lunch
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Bonhams is auctioning off the cellar of Locanda Locatelli, and a few of us get to try some of the gems over lunch

October 6, 2025October 6, 2025 jamiegoode
A quick guide to New Zealand wine
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A quick guide to New Zealand wine

October 5, 2025October 6, 2025 jamiegoode
Tablas Creek and Château Beaucastel: a Wine Society tasting telling the story of how a leading Rhône domaine fell in love with California
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Tablas Creek and Château Beaucastel: a Wine Society tasting telling the story of how a leading Rhône domaine fell in love with California

October 2, 2025October 2, 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.

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