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Mornington Peninsula Pinot Noir: a study in six wines

May 11, 2025May 11, 2025 jamiegoode 1570 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 1507 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 1885 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 7935 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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Australia Features Latest 

Some affordable Australian wines from Yalumba and Oxford Landing

April 22, 2025 jamiegoode 950 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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Highlights: two ambitious Viogniers, from Yalumba and Laurent Miquel

April 11, 2025 jamiegoode 892 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 2260 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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Australia Day Lunch 2025: celebrating Australian wine with some fine older bottles

January 27, 2025January 27, 2025 jamiegoode 2786 Views

As is the tradition (well, for the last four years) a group of jolly wine folk gathered to celebrate Australia

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Australia Features 

Some Australian fine wines from Berkmannn Wine Cellars

November 22, 2024July 4, 2025 jamiegoode 1724 Views

Website: https://www.berkmann.co.uk/ Berkmann are a respected UK importer who have built up a portfolio of really interesting Australian wines, among

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Australia Highlights 

Highlights: Mitchelton Cabernet Shiraz 1973 Goulburn Valley, Victoria, Australia

November 17, 2024April 25, 2025 jamiegoode 1063 Views

This is a remarkable wine. On the night before the Pinot Massif event that brought 40-odd winemakers together at Mitchelton

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Cruse x Hirsch, tasting some Californian gems from this star partnership
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Cruse x Hirsch, tasting some Californian gems from this star partnership

October 28, 2025October 28, 2025 jamiegoode

Californians Jasmine Hirsch and Michael Cruse are partners in life and wine, and they came to London to share their

Hatzidakis: a deep dive into these top Santorini wines
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Hatzidakis: a deep dive into these top Santorini wines

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Yarra Valley (5) Yarra Yering
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Yarra Valley (5) Yarra Yering

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Tarrawarra winery, Yarra Valley
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Yarra (3) Tarrawarra

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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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