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The wines of Giant Steps, Yarra Valley and Tasmania, Australia

April 22, 2024May 21, 2024 jamiegoode 5735 Views Chardonnay, pinot noir, Yarra Valley

Website: https://www.giantstepswine.com.au/ It’s a new era for Yarra Valley winery Giant Steps. It was recently purchased by Jackson Family Wines,

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Wirra Wirra: a McLaren Vale winery on the fine wine transformation path

March 11, 2024May 21, 2024 jamiegoode 6585 Views McLaren Vale

Website: https://wirrawirra.com/ Wirra Wirra is a long-established winery in Australia’s McLaren Vale. For many years it has had a reputation

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Australia Day Tasting 2024: some amazing pre-2020 Aussie wines

January 31, 2024 jamiegoode 4787 Views

For the third year in a row a group of Aussie-wine-loving folk have met on Australia day to taste great

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Australian Riesling, a study in 8 wines

January 3, 2024January 3, 2024 jamiegoode 4876 Views Riesling

These wines were tasted as part of the Finger Lakes Experience this year in Geneva, New York State. I’ve followed

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Kym Teusner: fine wines from this Barossa star

December 28, 2023December 28, 2023 jamiegoode 3072 Views

Website: https://www.teusner.com.au/ I first met Kym Teusner in the Barossa Valley in 2004 (see my report here here). He’d only

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Highlights: Joshua Cooper Shay’s Flat Cabernet Sauvignon 2021, Pyrenees, Victoria, Australia

November 22, 2023 Treve Ring 3359 Views biodynamic, Pyrenees

Joshua Cooper grew up in the vineyards with parents Alan and Nelly Cooper, and their pioneering biodynamic Cobaw Ridge winery

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New releases from Place of Changing Winds: a remarkable vineyard-based project in Australia’s Macedon Ranges

November 7, 2023November 7, 2023 jamiegoode 10209 Views

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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New releases from BK Wines, a star producer in the Adelaide Hills

November 2, 2023November 2, 2023 jamiegoode 4065 Views Adelaide Hills

Website: https://bkwines.com.au/ Brendon and Kirstyn Keys are the B and K in BK Wines, and they are based in the

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Old Vines, Classic Wines: a brief study of Australian wine

August 30, 2023March 5, 2024 jamiegoode 4209 Views

These wines were served at a Wine Australia lunch at the Texsom conference in Dallas, August 2023. It’s a really

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Penfolds Collection 2023, including the new 2019 Grange

July 19, 2023January 16, 2024 jamiegoode 5512 Views

Peter Gago was in London to introduce the 2023 Penfolds Collection. This iconic Australian producer has been busy adding wines

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

October 28, 2025October 29, 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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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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