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Highlights: Champagne Billecart Salmon Cuvée Elizabeth Salmon Rosé 2009

October 28, 2022November 21, 2022 jamiegoode 3379 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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Video: visiting Champagne Ayala in Aÿ

June 26, 2022 jamiegoode 4247 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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Highlights: Champagne Beaumont des Crayères Fleur de Prestige Blanc Millésime Brut 2009

May 31, 2022July 10, 2022 jamiegoode 4295 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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Visiting Champagne Ayala, Aÿ

April 16, 2022June 7, 2023 jamiegoode 5005 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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Sip Champagnes: 10 top wines from this new UK importer

March 6, 2022May 15, 2022 jamiegoode 6611 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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Highlights: Champagne Ruinart Rosé NV

February 2, 2022May 15, 2022 jamiegoode 5112 Views

Ruinart like their history. They were the first established Champagne House in 1729. And also the first to make a

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Champagne Billecart-Salmon Le Clos Saint-Hilaire: tasting all 7 releases to date

December 27, 2021February 25, 2022 jamiegoode 7242 Views

This was my first time tasting one of Champagne Billecart-Salmon’s prestige cuvées, Clos Saint-Hilaire. It comes from a single-hectare plot

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Highlights: Champagne Taittinger Prélude Grands Crus NV France

December 22, 2021January 9, 2022 jamiegoode 4197 Views

Taittinger have 288 hectares of their own vineyards in Champagne, and supplement this with fruit they buy. They’re very well

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Champagne: the state of the industry, plus 12 memorable bottles from 2021

December 21, 2021January 9, 2022 Treve Ring 9117 Views

The good news is we will not run out of champagne. The worrisome news is that it may be harder

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Champagne Profiles 

Champagne Drappier, a forward-thinking house from the south of the region

October 27, 2021December 14, 2021 jamiegoode 8187 Views

Website: https://www.champagne-drappier.com/en/ Drappier are a forward-thinking, family-owned Champagne house based in Urville in the Côte des Bar, a village of

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The big bottle party at the Cool Climate Wine Summit: a selection of interesting wines from Poland, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Austria
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The big bottle party at the Cool Climate Wine Summit: a selection of interesting wines from Poland, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Austria

January 10, 2026January 10, 2026 jamiegoode

I’m at the Cool Climate Wine Summit in Copenhagen, and this year the opening evening was in the form of

Some travel tips from someone who travels too much
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Some travel tips from someone who travels too much

January 10, 2026January 10, 2026 jamiegoode
Domínio Do Açor, an exciting new producer from Dão, Portugal
Features Latest Portugal Profiles 

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

January 9, 2026January 9, 2026 jamiegoode
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

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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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