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Beaujolais adventures (7) Clos du Mez, Fleurie

January 20, 2024 jamiegoode 3693 Views Gamay

Website: https://www.closdemez.com/ Marie-Élodie Zighera-Confuron (hence MEZ, with Confuron her added-on married name) is on a mission to make great, ageworthy

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Beaujolais adventures (6) Domaine du Grand Pré

September 15, 2023March 5, 2024 jamiegoode 5117 Views Gamay

I bump into Romain Zordan of Château de Grand Pre fresh off the tractor, where he’s been spraying the vines.

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Beaujolais adventures (5) Domaine de la Grand’Cour/Famille Dutraive

September 13, 2023March 5, 2024 jamiegoode 5812 Views Gamay

Website: http://domainedelagrandcour.fr/ One of the stars of the Beaujolais natural wine scene is Domaine de la Grand’Cour, which is owned

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Highlights: Antoine Sunier Régnié Cuvée Montmerond 2020

August 18, 2023March 5, 2024 jamiegoode 4405 Views Gamay

Antoine Sunier is the brother of Julien Sunier, who has been making wines in Beaujolais since 2008. He came to

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Beaujolais adventures (4) Château de Javernand, Chiroubles

July 28, 2023January 16, 2024 jamiegoode 5258 Views

Pierre Prost (pictured above) is an articulate advocate of agroecology, something that he’s implementing in the vineyards of Château de

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Beaujolais adventures (3) Domaine Les Garçons, an exciting newcomer

July 16, 2023January 16, 2024 jamiegoode 5600 Views

This is a very exciting new project in Beaujolais. First vintage of this domaine was 2020, and it is run

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Highlights: Jean-Marc Burgaud Morgon Les Charmes 2020

July 11, 2023January 16, 2024 jamiegoode 3749 Views Gamay

Big fan of Burgaud’s Beaujolais wines. He’s based in Villie Morgon and makes quite sturdy, ageworthy bottles that also have

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Beaujolais adventures (2) Château de Pougelon, working with agroecology and a beautiful new winery

July 10, 2023July 11, 2023 jamiegoode 5319 Views Agroforestry, Gamay

Website: https://descombe.com/domaines/chateau-de-pougelon Located in Saint-Etienne-des-Ouillières, Château de Pougelon is owned by the Descombe family, and is currently run by Marine

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Beaujolais adventures (1) the newcomers – tasting wines from new producers

July 6, 2023January 16, 2024 jamiegoode 9486 Views

Beaujolais is a dynamic region, with lots of newcomers keen to get involved. Partly this is because it’s a beautiful

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A Beaujolais study with some stunning expressions of Gamay

May 22, 2023July 9, 2023 jamiegoode 4685 Views Gamay

These are seven great examples of Gamay from Beaujolais that I showed in a masterclass today. I really liked them

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2025, a wine year in pictures
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2025, a wine year in pictures

January 1, 2026January 1, 2026 jamiegoode

Here’s a selection of pictures from 2025. Quite a year.

A mini-Champagne study: Ayala, Bollinger, Albert Lebrun, Forget Brimont
Champagne Features Latest 

A mini-Champagne study: Ayala, Bollinger, Albert Lebrun, Forget Brimont

January 1, 2026January 1, 2026 jamiegoode
Exploring the Roussillon (5) Torredemer Mangin
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Exploring the Roussillon (5) Torredemer Mangin

December 31, 2025December 31, 2025 jamiegoode
Failla Wines: beautiful site-specific wines from some of northern California’s best vineyards
California Features Latest 

Failla Wines: beautiful site-specific wines from some of northern California’s best vineyards

December 29, 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.

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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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