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Gant & Co: stylish wines from Margaret River, Western Australia

April 25, 2023April 25, 2023 jamiegoode 4726 Views

Matt Gant is an Australian winemaker known for his brand First Drop, which he made for 15 years before selling

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Australia Features 

Yalumba: champions of Viognier, tasting five different examples

April 24, 2023April 24, 2023 jamiegoode 9877 Views Viognier

Australian winery Yalumba are an interesting wine company. They are big, but not huge. They manage to behave like a

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Australia Features 

Tasting some great Australian wines at an Australia day lunch with colleagues

January 29, 2023March 7, 2023 jamiegoode 4087 Views

Australia day is a great excuse for a wine lunch, and once again a crew assembled, bringing special bottle of

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Cabernet Sauvignon
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Celebrating Cabernet Sauvignon: tasting 10 benchmarks from around the wine world blind

November 28, 2022March 7, 2023 jamiegoode 5713 Views Cabernet Sauvignon, Margaret River

Since 1982, Western Australian winery Cape Mentelle has held an International Cabernet Tasting at the winery. Founder David Hohnen began

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Australia Features 

Chenin Blanc in Western Australia, an emerging story

November 4, 2022November 30, 2022 jamiegoode 5320 Views Chenin Blanc

Two Aussies were at the recent Chenin Blanc Congress in Stellenbosch, as well as 70 growers from Anjuo/Saumur and Vouvray,

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Grenache : a Study

September 8, 2022September 13, 2022 Treve Ring 5717 Views Garnacha, Grenache

(/ɡrəˈnæʃ/) Grenache is one of the most widely planted red wine grapes planted on the globe, which would explain the

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Barossa meets Bordeaux with this new Penfolds x Dourthe collaboration wine, Penfolds II

July 27, 2022August 4, 2022 Lisse Garnett 7576 Views

Take Bordeaux master blenders, Dourthe, add 175 years of Australian patience, grit, ambition and skill – mix in that infamous

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The Larry Cherubino interview

June 23, 2022July 10, 2022 Lisse Garnett 5945 Views

Margaret River is one of the few places in the world where fine Chardonnay and Cabernet can beautifully co-exist. Larry

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Australia Highlights 

Highlights: the Ovitelli wines from Yangarra in Australia’s McLaren Vale

June 4, 2022July 10, 2022 jamiegoode 4125 Views

These are two very impressive wines made in 675 litre ceramic eggs by biodynamic winery Yangarra in the McLaren Vale.

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Fifty years of Australian Chardonnay

May 1, 2022 jamiegoode 5297 Views Chardonnay

I like Aussie Chardonnay. I remember when I was first getting into wine, and I tried quite a few. In

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

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

October 27, 2025 jamiegoode
Yarra Valley (5) Yarra Yering
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Yarra Valley (5) Yarra Yering

October 25, 2025October 26, 2025 jamiegoode
Tarrawarra winery, Yarra Valley
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Yarra (3) Tarrawarra

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About Us

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.

This is an explanation of what an anorak is.

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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