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Australia Features 

Some affordable Australian wines from Yalumba and Oxford Landing

April 22, 2025December 20, 2025 jamiegoode 2084 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, 2025December 2, 2025 jamiegoode 1454 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, 2025December 2, 2025 jamiegoode 3407 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, 2025December 20, 2025 jamiegoode 4835 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 2457 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 1588 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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Australia Books Features 

Andrew Caillard and The Australian Ark, perhaps the best wine book ever written!

November 16, 2024April 25, 2025 jamiegoode 3146 Views

Website: https://australianark.com Andrew Caillard’s ‘The Australian Ark’ is one of the most amazing wine books ever written. I caught up

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Australia Highlights 

Highlights: MMAD Grenache 2022 Blewitt Springs, McLaren Vale

November 14, 2024April 25, 2025 jamiegoode 1918 Views Grenache, McLaren Vale

Tried this wine with a few wine folk after dinner last night and was really impressed. From the Shaw &

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Australia Features Regions 

Ed Carr and House of Arras, exciting sparkling wines from Tasmania

October 18, 2024April 25, 2025 jamiegoode 3382 Views Sparkling wine, tasmania

Website: https://houseofarras.com.au/ The sparkling wine conversation has been dominated by Champagne for so long, but now this is changing. Other

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Australia Highlights 

Highlights: Jansz Tasmania Premium Cuvée NV

October 16, 2024April 25, 2025 jamiegoode 2123 Views Sparkling wine

I remember when I first started out in wine buying quite a bit of Aussie fizz – Seppelts Great Western

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Exploring Vinho Verde: visiting star producer Anselmo Mendes

June 2, 2026June 2, 2026 jamiegoode

One of the most important people in the transformation of Vinho Verde from a region of gassy ephemeral wines into

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Current releases from Dão legend Antonio Madeira

June 1, 2026June 1, 2026 jamiegoode
Restaurants: dinner at La Trompette, Chiswick, with three interesting wines
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Restaurants: dinner at La Trompette, Chiswick, with three interesting wines

June 1, 2026 jamiegoode
Pannobile – meeting this coalition of amazing Burgenland producers, who are making some of Austria’s most interesting wines
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Pannobile – meeting this coalition of amazing Burgenland producers, who are making some of Austria’s most interesting wines

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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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