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Highlights: Champagne Dom Pérignon 2010

October 3, 2020June 14, 2021 jamiegoode 8501 Views

This was a difficult vintage in Champagne that yielded few vintage wines. But despite this – and perhaps because of

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Champagne Highlights Videos 

Highlights: Taittinger Comtes de Champagne 2008

September 20, 2020October 9, 2020 jamiegoode 11727 Views

The long-awaited 2008 version of Taittinger’s prestige cuvée, Comtes de Champagne, has been released. I drank a bottle of it

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Champagne Highlights 

Highlights: Champagne Dom Pérignon Rosé 2006 France

August 30, 2020October 9, 2020 jamiegoode 7754 Views

Sometimes when a wine is really expensive, you almost don’t want it to be too good. This, the pink version

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Champagne Highlights 

Highlights: two from Champagne Michel Gonet

August 20, 2020October 9, 2020 jamiegoode 6804 Views

Champagne Michel Gonet Les 3 Terroirs Blanc de Blancs 2010 France12.5% alcohol. This is from Vindey (Sezanne), Montguex (Aube) and

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Champagne Latest Videos 

Highlights: Champagne Veuve Clicquot La Grande Dame 2008

July 26, 2020July 26, 2020 jamiegoode 7356 Views

This is a remarkable wine. It has 92% Pinot Noir, but it has the freshness and focus of a really

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moet et chandon rose imperial
Champagne Latest Wine Science 

Moët et Chandon: the science behind the success of rosé Champagne

July 3, 2020July 5, 2020 jamiegoode 18059 Views

The vast majority of rosé Champagne made by blending still red wines with white wines to make a pink base

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Champagne Latest Profiles 

In Champagne: Pol Roger

June 12, 2020 jamiegoode 14088 Views

Goode and Ring continue their series on Champagne with a visit to Pol Roger in Épernay. Family-owned Pol Roger is

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Champagne Highlights Latest 

Highlights: two from Champagne Bruno Paillard

May 8, 2020May 8, 2020 jamiegoode 6310 Views

I visited Bruno Paillard with Treve Ring a couple of years ago. This is a rare thing: a new Champagne

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Books Champagne 

Review: Christie’s World Encyclopedia of Champagne and Sparkling Wine

May 7, 2020May 15, 2020 jamiegoode 11436 Views Sparkling wine

This is the new (2019) edition of the most comprehensive guide to sparkling wine, a category that’s exciting at the

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Champagne Features 

Non-vintage Champagne: comparing five top examples

April 11, 2020May 15, 2020 jamiegoode 43296 Views

Last week I watched an Instagram live session organized by Champagne retailer The Finest Bubble. Champagne expert Essi Avellan led

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Celebrating 25 years of Filipa Pato’s wines with an amazing lunch and tasting
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Celebrating 25 years of Filipa Pato’s wines with an amazing lunch and tasting

October 30, 2026October 30, 2026 jamiegoode

Flipa Pato, daughter of famous Bairrada winegrower Luis Pato, first started making her own wines 25 years ago, in 2001.

Rabasco: beautiful natural wines from Abruzzo, Italy
Features Italy Latest 

Rabasco: beautiful natural wines from Abruzzo, Italy

October 28, 2026October 28, 2026 jamiegoode
With these twelve wines, Juampi Michellini, Matias Riccitelli, Rafael Urreloja and Derek Mossman Knapp illustrate Argentina and Chile’s precocious ability to express the best in any variety 
Argentina Chile Features Latest 

With these twelve wines, Juampi Michellini, Matias Riccitelli, Rafael Urreloja and Derek Mossman Knapp illustrate Argentina and Chile’s precocious ability to express the best in any variety 

October 26, 2026October 26, 2026 Lisse Garnett
Three wines from a new producer in Oxfordshire (UK): Yew Tree Vineyard
England Features Latest 

Three wines from a new producer in Oxfordshire (UK): Yew Tree Vineyard

October 24, 2026October 24, 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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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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