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New releases by Adelaide Hills star BK Wines, some of Australia’s most interesting low intervention wines

July 24, 2025July 24, 2025 jamiegoode 1255 Views Adelaide Hills, Chardonnay, Gamay, pinot noir

Website: https://bkwines.com.au/ I caught up with Brendon Keys at East End Cellars in Adelaide to taste through some of his

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Australian Chardonnay: a deep dive into this exciting category

July 11, 2025July 11, 2025 jamiegoode 2418 Views Chardonnay

We are so familiar with Chardonnay as an important part of Australia’s wine offering that it’s surprising to learn that

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The wines of Wynns, Coonawarra – interviewing Sue Hodder, chief winemaker of Australia’s leading producers, updated with new release notes (May 2025)

May 31, 2025May 31, 2025 jamiegoode 3920 Views Coonawarra

Coonawarra is a celebrated wine region in South Australia, and Wynns are one of the most important players here. It

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Mornington Peninsula Pinot Noir: a study in six wines

May 11, 2025May 11, 2025 jamiegoode 1413 Views pinot noir

The Mornington Peninsula wine region. This region has established itself as Australia’s most important for Pinot Noir, and it also

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A mini-Riesling study: Australia, New Zealand, Germany

May 10, 2025 jamiegoode 1438 Views Riesling

These four samples were at hand, so I did a taste and compare. Riesling is such a singular variety. I

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Australia Videos 

Video: tasting the Kin 2023 Grenache from Alkina in the Barossa Valley

May 6, 2025 jamiegoode 1823 Views Grenache

Tasting the Kin Grenache 2023 from Barossa Valley star winery Alkina who have developed a micro-parcel approach to their vineyard

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Australian Pinot Noir: a tasting of 25 wines, showing how impressive these wines can be

April 24, 2025April 25, 2025 jamiegoode 6861 Views pinot noir

Back in November I attended the Pinot Massif, which is a get-together for winemakers in Australia who are working with

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Some affordable Australian wines from Yalumba and Oxford Landing

April 22, 2025 jamiegoode 838 Views

Website: https://www.oxfordlanding.com/en/story/ https://www.yalumba.com/ Yalumba are an important winery for Australia. Based in the Barossa they make some impressive high end

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Viognier
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Highlights: two ambitious Viogniers, from Yalumba and Laurent Miquel

April 11, 2025 jamiegoode 848 Views Viognier

Viognier is a really interesting grape variety, and these are two ambitious examples from producers who have focused quite strongly

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Henschke 2021 releases
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Henschke: tasting the newly released 2021 single vineyard wines with Stephen and Prue Henschke

April 1, 2025April 1, 2025 jamiegoode 2077 Views

Website: https://www.henschke.com.au/ It’s the start of vintage when I catch up with Stephen and Prue Henschke to taste through these

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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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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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