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Highlights: Champagne Mumm RSRV Cuvée 4 5 Grand Cru NV France

September 13, 2024March 29, 2025 jamiegoode 2487 Views

Website: https://www.mumm.com/en-gb/ An impressive Champagne from Mumm, who have upped their game of late. Champagne Mumm RSRV Cuvée 4 5

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Highlight: Champagne Laherte Frères Ultratradition Extra Brut NV France

August 23, 2024March 29, 2025 jamiegoode 2224 Views

Website: https://www.champagne-laherte.com/?lang=EN# Champagne Laherte Frères Ultratradition Extra Brut NV France12.5% alcohol. This is a blend of fruit from 8 villages

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Highlights: Champagne Henriot Brut Souverain NV

August 4, 2024 jamiegoode 2544 Views

Drank this recently and was really impressed. For a NV blend, this is very good quality, with a lovely range

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Champagne Features 

Champagne Pierre Gimonnet: tasting these excellent grower Champagnes with Didier Gimonnet

June 9, 2024August 25, 2024 jamiegoode 4462 Views

Website: https://www.champagne-gimonnet.com/ Based in Cuis, Gimonnet is one of the larger grower Champagne producers with 28 hectares of vines. Half

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Champagne Highlights 

Highlights: Domaine de Hélène Champagne Grand Cru Blanc de Blancs Vieilles Vignes Extra Brut NV

June 2, 2024August 25, 2024 Treve Ring 5992 Views champagne, Chardonnay, grower champagne

Descended from a long line of winegrowers in Cramant since 1891, Pierre Hugot has worked with highly respected domains in

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Champagne Features New to wine 

Champagne: an introduction

May 28, 2024August 25, 2024 jamiegoode 11863 Views

Champagne makes the world’s most famous sparkling wines. Here’s a brief introduction to the region and its wines. Where is

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Champagne Highlights 

Highlights: Champagne Louis Roederer Collection 244 MV

May 15, 2024July 20, 2024 jamiegoode 3566 Views

You have to love Roederer. Of all the Champagne houses, they are the ones making the coolest moves at the

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Champagne Highlights 

Highlights: Champagne Telmont Réserve de la Terre

April 27, 2024July 20, 2024 jamiegoode 4189 Views

This wine is new to me. An organic Champagne where the front label looks like a back label, but it’s

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Champagne Highlights 

Highlights: Champagne Lanson Le Vintage 2013 France

April 14, 2024May 21, 2024 jamiegoode 4351 Views

This new release from the cold 2013 vintage has high acidity but really works. Champagne Lanson Le Vintage 2013 FranceThis

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Champagne Highlights 

Highlights: Champagne Lanson NV becomes Le Black Création, and this is editon 258

March 9, 2024May 21, 2024 jamiegoode 5618 Views

This is the second release of Le Black Création, following on from 257. It’s the re-badged black label non-vintage from

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Domínio Do Açor, an exciting new producer from Dão, Portugal
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Domínio Do Açor, an exciting new producer from Dão, Portugal

January 9, 2026January 9, 2026 jamiegoode

Website: https://dominiodoacor.com/en/ Domínio do Açor is a relatively new project in the Dão region, and it’s already in the peer

Prior Lucas, an interesting, innovative producer in Portugal’s Bairrada region
Features Latest Portugal 

Prior Lucas, an interesting, innovative producer in Portugal’s Bairrada region

January 8, 2026January 8, 2026 jamiegoode
Tasting some innovative projects from Luxembourg and Germany – Kox, Dope, Piri Naturel, Kraemer and Salutaris
Features Germany Latest 

Tasting some innovative projects from Luxembourg and Germany – Kox, Dope, Piri Naturel, Kraemer and Salutaris

January 7, 2026 jamiegoode
Alentejo producer Cortes de Cima completes its reinvention, and the new wines hit the spot
Features Latest Portugal Regions 

Alentejo producer Cortes de Cima completes its reinvention, and the new wines hit the spot

January 6, 2026January 6, 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.

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