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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 1370 Views Chateauneuf-du-Pape, Paso Robles

Jason Haas of Tablas Creek and Andrew Bayley (GM of Beaucastel’s UK operation) presented this really interesting tasting, telling the

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Books: The New California by Elaine Chukan Brown

July 31, 2025 jamiegoode 1229 Views Books

Ever since I heard that Elaine Chukan Brown was writing a book on Californian Wine, I was waiting to see

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Zinfandel: California’s own grape, tasting 59 top examples

June 18, 2025June 18, 2025 jamiegoode 8793 Views Zinfandel

My first real encounter with Zinfandel was reading an excellent book by US author David Darlington, titled Angels’ Visits, and

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Highlights: Louis M Martini Monte Rosso Vineyard Gnarly Vine Zinfandel 2018 Sonoma, California

May 16, 2025 jamiegoode 928 Views Sonoma, Zinfandel

Website: https://www.louismartini.com/ Louis Martini established the winery named after him in 1933, just after the repeal of prohibition. He’d established L.M.

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Mayacamas Chardonnay
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Highlights: Mayacamas Chardonnay 2023 Mt. Veeder, Napa Valley, California

May 9, 2025 jamiegoode 2360 Views Chardonnay

Mayacamas Chardonnay 2023 Mt. Veeder, Napa Valley, California13.5% alcohol. This is fine, restrained and pure on the nose with focused

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Sashi Moorman presents Domaine de la Côte, one of California’s most exciting wineries

May 6, 2025 jamiegoode 2228 Views pinot noir

Website: https://domainedelacote.com/ Sashi Moorman was in town to talk about the wines of Domaine de la Côte, a Pinot-focused winery

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Visiting Abe Schoener and the Los Angeles River Wine Co, an urban winery in Los Angeles

May 1, 2025May 1, 2025 jamiegoode 1972 Views urban winery

Website: https://scholium.securecheckout.com/ In August 2019 I visited Abe Schoener right at the beginning of the Los Angeles River Wine Company.

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Highlights: Quintessa 2021 Napa, California

April 9, 2025April 9, 2025 jamiegoode 941 Views Napa

Website: https://www.quintessa.com/ Quintessa make just one red each year from its 135 acres of vines in Rutherford. There’s no second

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Paso Robles: a Californian wine region on the up

March 16, 2025September 29, 2025 jamiegoode 2872 Views Paso Robles

The basis of this article is a seminar presented last week in London by Christopher Taranto, who is director of

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Fifty years of Lytton Springs, the famous Zinfandel-based wine from star California producer Ridge

March 12, 2025 jamiegoode 1885 Views

Website: https://www.ridgewine.com/ The current release of Lytton Springs, the 2022, celebrates 50 years since this single-vineyard wine was first launched

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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

Website: https://www.hatzidakiswines.gr/ Hatzidakis are one of the best-known producers from the Greek Island of Santorini, and they were in town

Yarra Valley (5) Yarra Yering
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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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Yarra Valley (2) Oakridge
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Yarra Valley (2) Oakridge

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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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