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

August 5, 2025July 2, 2026 jamiegoode 4480 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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Australia Features 

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

August 5, 2025July 2, 2026 jamiegoode 3426 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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Australia Food and wine 

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

August 2, 2025July 2, 2026 jamiegoode 2541 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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Australia Food and wine 

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

July 27, 2025February 12, 2026 jamiegoode 3138 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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Australia Features 

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

July 24, 2025February 12, 2026 jamiegoode 2832 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, 2025February 12, 2026 jamiegoode 6186 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, 2025January 15, 2026 jamiegoode 5922 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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Australia Features 

Mornington Peninsula Pinot Noir: a study in six wines

May 11, 2025January 15, 2026 jamiegoode 3535 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, 2025January 15, 2026 jamiegoode 2461 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 2877 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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The brilliant Douro wines of Mateus Nicolau de Almeida/Ameztoy & Almeida
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The brilliant Douro wines of Mateus Nicolau de Almeida/Ameztoy & Almeida

August 1, 2026 jamiegoode

Website: https://ameztoyalmeida.com/ Mateus Nicolau de Almeida is the son of the well known João Nicolau d’Almeida of Ramos Pinto fame,

Sablière: a new 0% alcohol sparkling ‘wine’ designed from first principles
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Sablière: a new 0% alcohol sparkling ‘wine’ designed from first principles

July 31, 2026July 31, 2026 jamiegoode
The wines of Zacharioudakis, Crete
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The wines of Zacharioudakis, Crete

July 30, 2026 jamiegoode
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Reynolds Wine Growers: top wines from the cooler north of Portugal’s Alentejo

July 30, 2026July 30, 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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