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Highlights: Wildman Wine Heavy Petting Pét-Nat 2018 Riverland, Australia

July 3, 2020July 5, 2020 jamiegoode 5885 Views Pet Nat

Tim Wildman was a wine merchant, passed the MW exams, and headed off to Australia. As well as running James

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Highlights: Sorrenberg Sauvignon Blanc Semillon 2018

June 10, 2020 Treve Ring 5789 Views

This is serious wine, and should be considered as one of Australia’s top whites. From his biodynamically farmed 2.4ha vineyard

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Australia Highlights 

Highlights: Timo Meyer Gamay 2018 Yarra

March 24, 2020April 23, 2020 jamiegoode 4638 Views Gamay

I’m such a fan of Gamay, as regular readers will know. I even embarked on an ambitious series on Gamay

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Australia Profiles 

David Franz, new Barossa vigneron

February 9, 2020February 15, 2020 jamiegoode 6167 Views Barossa

Website: https://david-franz.com/ David Franz Lehmann is the son of Barossa legend Peter. I visited on a September day to taste

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Highlights: Ochota Barrels 186 2018 McLaren Vale

January 16, 2020January 16, 2020 jamiegoode 6598 Views Grenache, McLaren Vale

I’m a huge fan of Ochota Barrels, who are based in Adelaide Hills but source grapes from a number of

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Australia Highlights 

Highlights: Ochota Barrels 2018 Home… Pinot Noir

December 23, 2019January 16, 2020 Treve Ring 5192 Views Adelaide Hills, pinot noir

After making it through the impressive/annoying two layers and colours of wax (so pretty though), this incredibly spicy, tight and

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Empire of Dirt, exciting new wines from the Yarra

November 14, 2019December 14, 2019 jamiegoode 6740 Views Yarra Valley

Sauvignon and a Cabernet from Australia’s Yarra Valley? Normally, I’d be sceptical, but when it’s a collaboration between Timo Meyer

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Australia Profiles 

10 Minutes x Tractor, a leading winery from the Mornington Peninsula

March 24, 2017September 16, 2019 jamiegoode 4063 Views

Australia’s Mornington Peninsula wine region, not far from Melbourne, is well known for its Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, and one

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Australia Regions 

The wines of Giaconda, Beechworth, Victoria

March 24, 2015October 4, 2019 jamiegoode 4329 Views

Rick Kinzbrunner’s amazing wines are some of Australia’s most sought-after bottles Website: www.giaconda.com.au Giaconda is one of Australia’s star boutique wineries.

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Australia Wine Science 

Visiting the Australian Wine Research Institude

December 11, 2009September 19, 2019 jamiegoode 3488 Views

I visited the Australian Wine Research Institute as part of the Landmark Australia Tutorial in 2009. Website: www.landmark-wineaustralia.com  It was smart

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Visiting Aya Estate for the opening of their winery: Bulgarian wine playing at a new level
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Visiting Aya Estate for the opening of their winery: Bulgarian wine playing at a new level

October 7, 2025October 7, 2025 jamiegoode

Website: https://ayaestatevineyards.com/en/ I’m just on my way back from the Struma Valley in southern Bulgaria, where I was attending the

Bonhams is auctioning off the cellar of Locanda Locatelli, and a few of us get to try some of the gems over lunch
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Bonhams is auctioning off the cellar of Locanda Locatelli, and a few of us get to try some of the gems over lunch

October 6, 2025October 6, 2025 jamiegoode
A quick guide to New Zealand wine
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A quick guide to New Zealand wine

October 5, 2025October 6, 2025 jamiegoode
Tablas Creek and Château Beaucastel: a Wine Society tasting telling the story of how a leading Rhône domaine fell in love with California
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Tablas Creek and Château Beaucastel: a Wine Society tasting telling the story of how a leading Rhône domaine fell in love with California

October 2, 2025October 2, 2025 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.

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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