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Highlights: Champagne Laurent Perrier Brut NV

March 15, 2026 jamiegoode 728 Views

Website: https://www.laurent-perrier.com/en/champagnes/la-cuvee/ This is a blend of more than 100 lots of wine, with 15-30% reserve wines, and a varietal

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Drappier champagne premier cru 2013
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Highlights: Champagne Drappier Premier Cru 2013

March 11, 2026March 11, 2026 jamiegoode 933 Views

Website: https://www.champagne-drappier.com/en/ I can’t find any information on this cuvée, so maybe it’s a special for Cathay Pacific. It’s in

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Some top fizz from Berry Bros & Rudd, UK and Champagne

February 26, 2026February 26, 2026 jamiegoode 870 Views

Here are some impressive sparkling wines from UK merchant Berry Bros & Rudd, including three from one of the UK’s

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A mini-Champagne study: Ayala, Bollinger, Albert Lebrun, Forget Brimont

January 1, 2026January 1, 2026 jamiegoode 1822 Views

Tried these four Champagnes together to compare and contrast. Ayala came out really well from this comparison. Champagne Ayala Brut

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Champagne henriot brut souverain
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Highlights: Champagne Henriot Brut Souverain NV

November 9, 2025November 9, 2025 jamiegoode 1714 Views

Website: https://www.champagne-henriot.com/ Tried this in the lounge en route to Portugal today. Really like it. Henriot was part of Artémis,

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Champagne Salon and Delamotte: the 2015 Salon release, and a look at the current Delamotte range

September 26, 2025October 24, 2025 jamiegoode 8550 Views

Champagne Delamotte is based in Le Mesnil-sur-Oger, a grand cru village in the Côte des Blancs. It was founded back

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Highlights: Taittinger Comtes de Champagne 2014

September 25, 2025September 25, 2025 jamiegoode 2995 Views

Website: https://www.taittinger.com/en The new release of this classic! And it’s really good. Champagne Taittinger Comtes de Champagne Blanc de Blancs

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Highlights: Champagne Billecart-Salmon Le Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru

September 6, 2025 jamiegoode 2847 Views

I like that Billecart-Salmon now have ‘my origin’ on their website, where if you are so inclined you can find

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Watching the Aldeburgh moonrise with Champagne: Lanson Le Black and Heidsieck & Co Monopole

August 29, 2025 jamiegoode 1858 Views

On a recent trip to the Norfolk and Suffolk coasts we sat on the beach at Aldeburgh as the sun

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Champagne Features France Wine Science 

French Bloom, a high-end alcohol-free sparkling wine that’s the most convincing product in this space yet

July 28, 2025February 12, 2026 jamiegoode 14671 Views

Website: https://uk.frenchbloom.com/ Non-alcoholic wine is currently a topic of intense interest in the wine industry. Many think that drinking habits

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Revisiting the brilliant low-intervention wines of Espera, from Portugal’s Lisboa region
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Revisiting the brilliant low-intervention wines of Espera, from Portugal’s Lisboa region

July 15, 2026July 15, 2026 jamiegoode

Website: https://www.esperawines.pt/en-gb Espera is a natural wine producer based in Alcobaça, in the Lisboa wine region of Portugal. Soils here are

Exploring speciality coffee and its parallels with fine wine: planning for the future, looking at new coffee varieties
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Exploring speciality coffee and its parallels with fine wine: regenerative farming in coffee production at the Sombra agroforestry project at Fazenda Mió in Brazil
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Sensory assessment of coffee, with parallels to wine tasting: cupping, grading and describing, with Dr Fabiana Carvalho
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Sensory assessment of coffee, with parallels to wine tasting: cupping, grading and describing, with Dr Fabiana Carvalho

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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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