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Australia Features 

Grange and friends: the Penfolds Collection 2020 releases

September 18, 2020August 4, 2022 jamiegoode 9205 Views

Penfolds is Australia’s most famous winery. Their flagship wine, Grange, has achieved legendary status. And this was a brand that

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Australia Features 

Yalumba: a focus on Barossa Grenache

August 21, 2020August 21, 2020 jamiegoode 9246 Views Barossa, Grenache

Has the time finally come for Grenache to come out of the shadows? Kevin Glastonbury, winemaker with leading Barossa producer

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Australia Highlights 

Highlights: Wildman Wine Heavy Petting Pét-Nat 2018 Riverland, Australia

July 3, 2020July 5, 2020 jamiegoode 6493 Views Pet Nat

Tim Wildman was a wine merchant, passed the MW exams, and headed off to Australia. As well as running James

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Highlights: Sorrenberg Sauvignon Blanc Semillon 2018

June 10, 2020 Treve Ring 6352 Views

This is serious wine, and should be considered as one of Australia’s top whites. From his biodynamically farmed 2.4ha vineyard

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Australia Highlights 

Highlights: Timo Meyer Gamay 2018 Yarra

March 24, 2020April 23, 2020 jamiegoode 5274 Views Gamay

I’m such a fan of Gamay, as regular readers will know. I even embarked on an ambitious series on Gamay

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Australia Profiles 

David Franz, new Barossa vigneron

February 9, 2020February 15, 2020 jamiegoode 7097 Views Barossa

Website: https://david-franz.com/ David Franz Lehmann is the son of Barossa legend Peter. I visited on a September day to taste

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Highlights: Ochota Barrels 186 2018 McLaren Vale

January 16, 2020January 16, 2020 jamiegoode 7348 Views Grenache, McLaren Vale

I’m a huge fan of Ochota Barrels, who are based in Adelaide Hills but source grapes from a number of

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Australia Highlights 

Highlights: Ochota Barrels 2018 Home… Pinot Noir

December 23, 2019January 16, 2020 Treve Ring 5727 Views Adelaide Hills, pinot noir

After making it through the impressive/annoying two layers and colours of wax (so pretty though), this incredibly spicy, tight and

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Australia Highlights 

Empire of Dirt, exciting new wines from the Yarra

November 14, 2019December 14, 2019 jamiegoode 7462 Views Yarra Valley

Sauvignon and a Cabernet from Australia’s Yarra Valley? Normally, I’d be sceptical, but when it’s a collaboration between Timo Meyer

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Australia Profiles 

10 Minutes x Tractor, a leading winery from the Mornington Peninsula

March 24, 2017September 16, 2019 jamiegoode 4841 Views

Australia’s Mornington Peninsula wine region, not far from Melbourne, is well known for its Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, and one

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Video: visiting an agroforestry coffee plantation in Brazil, the 15 hectare Sombra experiment that’s a collaboration between Fazenda Mió and Volcano Coffee Works in the UK
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Video: visiting an agroforestry coffee plantation in Brazil, the 15 hectare Sombra experiment that’s a collaboration between Fazenda Mió and Volcano Coffee Works in the UK

July 13, 2026 jamiegoode

Coffee is often grown as a monocrop. Here, at Fazenda Mió in Brazil I’m visiting a 15 hectare agroforestry experiment,

Six wines from UK independent wine merchant Tanners
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Six wines from UK independent wine merchant Tanners

July 11, 2026July 11, 2026 jamiegoode
Champagne Perrier Jouët have implemented regenerative viticulture in half of their vineyard area, and they are already seeing differences in the base wines
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Champagne Perrier Jouët have implemented regenerative viticulture in half of their vineyard area, and they are already seeing differences in the base wines

July 9, 2026 jamiegoode
Highlights: Klein Constantia Vin de Constance 2023 South Africa
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Highlights: Klein Constantia Vin de Constance 2023 South Africa

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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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