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Three from Merry Edwards

October 24, 2020November 14, 2020 jamiegoode 4870 Views

Merry Edwards began her winemaking career in the 1970s at Mount Eden Estate, and has also worked at Matanzas Creek.

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California Features 

The wines of Daou, Paso Robles: tilting at the top with Cabernet

September 26, 2020July 15, 2021 jamiegoode 4959 Views Paso Robles

Brothers George and Daniel Daou come from Lebanon. The first rocket from the civil war in the 1970s landed in

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Highlights: Whitcraft Winery Grenache Stolpman Vineyard 2018 Ballard Canyon, California

August 17, 2020October 9, 2020 jamiegoode 5648 Views pinot noir

This is a distinctive and beautiful Californian Grenache, made pretty naturally. Whole bunches are lightly trodden by foot, and then

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California Profiles 

Kinero Cellars and Royal Nonesuch Farm: the wines of Anthony Yount, California

July 9, 2020July 9, 2020 jamiegoode 11222 Views Paso Robles

Anthony Yount makes wine in Paso Robles. His day job is with Denner Vineyards, but since 2008 he has also

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TOR: high-end Cabernet from Napa

June 25, 2020 jamiegoode 8251 Views Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa

Tor Kenward spent 27 years with Beringer. When he retired in 2001, he set up his own winery, TOR Wines,

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Highlights: Enfield Wine Co Waterhorse Ridge Cabernet Sauvignon 2016

June 13, 2020 Treve Ring 6193 Views Cabernet Sauvignon

Take everything you know of Cali Cab and throw it away. Then taste this graceful wine. From Sonoma County’s tiny

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Highlights: The Ojai Vineyard Chardonnay Bien Nacido Vineyard 2017 Santa Maria Valley, California

June 7, 2020June 7, 2020 jamiegoode 4914 Views Chardonnay

Adam Tolmach began his wine career at Zaca Mesa in Santa Barbara County. Before long he decided to do his

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Harvesting Chardonnay in Carneros, Napa

April 13, 2020April 13, 2020 jamiegoode 6141 Views Carneros, Chardonnay, Napa

In September 2015 I joined the Truchard winery in Carneros, Napa Valley, for some harvest experience, picking and processing Chardonnay

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Abe Schoener: the thought-leader vigneron, opening a new urban winery in LA

January 27, 2020March 31, 2022 jamiegoode 12095 Views

Abe Schoener, ex-philosophy professor, is the winemaker behind the Scholium Project, an innovative Californian micronegociant winery that’s hard to put

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New releases from Domaine de la Côte and Sandhi

January 15, 2020 jamiegoode 9095 Views

I first met Raj Parr at a dinner in London some eight years ago, when he was presenting his wines

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Yarra Valley (11) Giant Steps
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Yarra Valley (11) Giant Steps

December 15, 2025December 15, 2025 jamiegoode

Giant Steps winery was started in the Yarra Valley by Phil Sexton in the late 1990s. He is a serial

Yarra Valley (10) Bobar
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Yarra Valley (10) Bobar

December 15, 2025December 15, 2025 jamiegoode
Launched today: Regenerative Viticulture, Second Edition
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Launched today: Regenerative Viticulture, Second Edition

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Yarra Valley (9) Rob Dolan Wines
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Yarra Valley (9) Rob Dolan 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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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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