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Harvesting Chardonnay in Carneros, Napa

April 13, 2020April 13, 2020 jamiegoode 6209 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 12237 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 9167 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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Bedrock Wine Co, California

December 29, 2019December 29, 2019 jamiegoode 7746 Views Zinfandel

Trying the wines from Morgan Twain-Peterson’s boutique winery focusing on California’s heritage of old vineyards, many of them field blends.

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Some fine Californian wines from UK importer Roberson

December 28, 2019 jamiegoode 5698 Views pinot noir, syrah

Roberson wine have, for some time now, been championing new-wave Californian wines in the UK, and they have gathered an

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Petaluma Gap, a new-ish AVA on the Sonoma Coast

October 27, 2019October 27, 2019 jamiegoode 7510 Views

A quick look at six wines from California’s newest AVA Do we need more wine appellations? Especially when some of

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The 2017 Pinot Noirs from Kutch

October 9, 2019October 9, 2019 jamiegoode 5993 Views

One of California’s leading producers of Pinot Noir It was great to be able to taste the new releases from

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Video: in the vineyards of Southern California with Abe Schoener

September 1, 2019September 16, 2019 jamiegoode 5105 Views
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Arnot Roberts

March 6, 2016October 6, 2019 jamiegoode 5837 Views

Elegant, balanced single vineyard wines from one of California’s most exciting small wineries Website: arnotroberts.com Arnot Roberts is a collaboration between

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Gallo, the world’s largest wine company, has three insanely large wineries in California
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Gallo, the world’s largest wine company, has three insanely large wineries in California

January 17, 2026January 17, 2026 jamiegoode

Gallo (they dropped the E&J bit in 2024) own the three largest wineries in the world. They don’t tend to

Bianka and Daniel Schmitt, making impressive natural wines in Rheinhessen, Germany
Features Germany Latest Profiles 

Bianka and Daniel Schmitt, making impressive natural wines in Rheinhessen, Germany

January 15, 2026January 15, 2026 jamiegoode
Another impressive Swiss producer: Domaine de Montbenay from the Vaud
Features Latest Switzerland 

Another impressive Swiss producer: Domaine de Montbenay from the Vaud

January 13, 2026January 13, 2026 jamiegoode
cave biber valais
Features Latest Switzerland 

Cave Biber, making lovely wines from Switzerland’s Valais

January 11, 2026January 11, 2026 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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