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  • Rabasco: beautiful natural wines from Abruzzo, Italy
  • 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 
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Highlights: Champagne Egly Ouriet Grand Cru Bru

March 14, 2020March 14, 2020 jamiegoode 8011 Views grower champagne

Popped into Noble Rot last night with two wine folk from New York’s Finger Lakes wine region for a pre-dinner

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Champagne Features Profiles Sparkling wine 

In Champagne: Vilmart et Cie

March 11, 2020April 23, 2020 Treve Ring 12376 Views grower champagne

Continuing their journey through Champagne, Ring and Goode visit Laurent Champs at Vilmart, and discover wines of elegance and purity

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Champagne 

Champagne Larmandier-Bernier

February 12, 2020April 23, 2020 jamiegoode 11716 Views grower champagne

Larmandier-Bernier is one of the leading grower Champagne producers. Jamie Goode and Treve Ring assess the wines, with Arthur Larmandier.

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Champagne Profiles Regions Sparkling wine 

In Champagne: Leclerc Briant

February 8, 2020February 15, 2020 jamiegoode 18590 Views champagne, grower champagne

Leclerc Briant is a newly revived Champagne house with a unique approach, including some very alternative élevage, and ageing one

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Champagne Features TOP STORIES 

The six Lieu Dits Champagnes from Selosse

January 20, 2020 jamiegoode 24152 Views

Anselme Selosse is a legendary producer in the Champagne region, and his collection of six Lieu Dit wines are astonishing,

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Champagne Highlights 

Highlights : Champagne Rémi Leroy NV Brut Nature

January 5, 2020January 12, 2020 Treve Ring 9430 Views champagne, grower champagne

Based in the Aube, which shares the same Portlandian and Kimmeridgian limestone soils as Chablis just further south, young Rémi

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Champagne Regions 

In Champagne : Pierre Gimonnet et Fils

December 18, 2019June 9, 2024 Treve Ring 15698 Views champagne, grower champagne

‘At Gimonnet we are atypical for many reasons,’ says Didier Gimonnet, third generation grower and producer. ‘The first is because

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Champagne Food and wine 

Lunch at Le Bellevue, in the Royal Champagne Hotel, Epernay

December 17, 2019December 29, 2019 jamiegoode 8980 Views Restaurants

Epernay’s Royal Champagne is a beautiful new luxury hotel in the heart of the Champagne region. It also has two

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Champagne Latest TOP STORIES 

In Champagne: Louis Roederer

December 15, 2019December 16, 2019 jamiegoode 13560 Views champagne

Roederer is an elite house famous for their prestige cuvée, Cristal. But the real story here is a house that

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Champagne Features Regions Sparkling wine TOP STORIES 

Beyond grower Champagne: where have all the growers gone?

December 13, 2019November 4, 2021 Treve Ring 23910 Views

In March 2019 Ring and Goode visited Champagne, to taste, visit and taste some more. In the recent past, the

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Features

Celebrating 25 years of Filipa Pato’s wines with an amazing lunch and tasting
Features Latest Portugal Regions TOP STORIES 

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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