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Champagne Billecart Salmon release the 2008 Cuvée Nicolas François, and it’s a stunner

May 7, 2023May 7, 2023 jamiegoode 1183 Views

Champagne Billecart Salmon have released the 2008 vintage of one of their flagship wines, the Cuvée Nicolas François. This is

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Champagne Highlights Latest 

Highlights: Champagne Lallier Réflexion R.019

January 6, 2023January 6, 2023 jamiegoode 875 Views

Website: https://champagne-lallier.com/en/ Lallier recently became the first Italian-owned Champagne house when they were bought by Campari. They also hired Dominique

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Champagne France Highlights Latest Sparkling wine 

Memorable Champagnes of 2022

January 3, 2023January 3, 2023 Treve Ring 1666 Views

Treve Ring and Jamie Goode pick their memorable Champagnes of 2022. First up, it’s Ring’s selections, and then Goode’s. It

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Champagne Features Latest 

Best Bottle Award: 13 sparkling wines tasted blind in Lech in the Austrian Alps, as hotels in this gastronomic hotspot fight it out

December 13, 2022December 13, 2022 jamiegoode 1615 Views Sparkling wine

Best Bottle Award: 13 sparkling wines tasted blind in Lech am Arlberg in the Austrian Alps Lech am Arlberg is

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Champagne Highlights 

Highlights: Champagne Bruno Paillard Blanc de Blancs Extra Brut 2013 France

November 25, 2022March 7, 2023 jamiegoode 1135 Views

Champagne Bruno Paillard Blanc de Blancs Extra Brut 2013 FranceFrom the Grand Cru villages of Oger and Mesnil-sur-Oger. Disgorged in

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Champagne Highlights Regions 

Highlights: Champagne Billecart Salmon Cuvée Elizabeth Salmon Rosé 2009

October 28, 2022November 21, 2022 jamiegoode 1259 Views

Website: https://www.champagne-billecart.fr/en/millesime/cuvee-elisabeth-salmon-2009 It’s Champagne day today, so time for a treat, and it’s the prestige pink fizz from Billecart-Salmon, the

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Champagne Videos 

Video: visiting Champagne Ayala in Aÿ

June 26, 2022 jamiegoode 1729 Views

Jamie Goode visits Champagne Ayala in the village of Aÿ, to taste the Vins Clairs from the 2021 vintage which

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Champagne Highlights 

Highlights: Champagne Beaumont des Crayères Fleur de Prestige Blanc Millésime Brut 2009

May 31, 2022July 10, 2022 jamiegoode 1317 Views

Champagne Beaumont des Crayères Fleur de Prestige Blanc Millésime Brut 2009 France12% alcohol£39.95 TannersBeaumont des Crayères is a small cooperative

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Champagne Features 

Visiting Champagne Ayala, Aÿ

April 16, 2022May 15, 2022 jamiegoode 1833 Views

Champagne Ayala are based in the village of Aÿ, but they are an oddity: this is Pinot Noir country, but

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Champagne Regions 

Sip Champagnes: 10 top wines from this new UK importer

March 6, 2022May 15, 2022 jamiegoode 2595 Views

Sip Champagnes is a specialist Champagne importer established by Peter Crawford in 2020. Peter has been travelling to the region

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Piemonte adventure (1) Neive: La Cantinetta di Barun, and Degusto
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Piemonte adventure (1) Neive: La Cantinetta di Barun, and Degusto

May 28, 2023May 29, 2023 jamiegoode

I’m in Piemonte for a few days. Monday to Wednesday I’m lecturing at the University of Gastronomic Sciences, Pollenzo, for

New (2021 vintage) releases from Jamie Kutch, one of California’s leading Pinot Noir and Chardonnay producers
California Features Profiles TOP STORIES 

New (2021 vintage) releases from Jamie Kutch, one of California’s leading Pinot Noir and Chardonnay producers

May 25, 2023May 26, 2023 jamiegoode
A revolution at Cortes de Cima in Portugal’s Alentejo
Features Latest Portugal TOP STORIES 

A revolution at Cortes de Cima in Portugal’s Alentejo

May 24, 2023May 24, 2023 jamiegoode
Proposed changes to UK wine regulation could precipitate a race to the bottom, and damage the growing UK wine production sector immensely
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Proposed changes to UK wine regulation could precipitate a race to the bottom, and damage the growing UK wine production sector immensely

May 23, 2023May 23, 2023 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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