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Highlights: Champagne De Saint Gall Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru 2008

February 12, 2021February 17, 2021 jamiegoode 6075 Views

Champagne De Saint Gall Orpale Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru 2008 France12.5% alcohol. De Saint-Gall are a growers cooperative and

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The ‘traditional method’, and how it has enabled Champagne to shed the complication of vintage variation

February 11, 2021 jamiegoode 7336 Views

Champagne is rare in the wine world, in that it’s a wine region that is incredibly consumer-facing. Whereas many of

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Champagne Highlights Videos 

Highlights: Champagne Krug Rosé NV France

January 18, 2021January 18, 2021 jamiegoode 5650 Views

Champagne Krug Rosé NV France12.5% alcohol. This is 29% 2012, with 71% from reserve wines. In all, 22 wines from

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Highlights: Champagne Pascal Doquet Arpège Blanc de Blancs

January 7, 2021January 11, 2021 jamiegoode 7921 Views

Champagne Pascal Doquet Arpège Premier Cru Blanc de Blancs Extra Brut NV France12.5% alcohol. This is from three different terroirs

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In Champagne: Agrapart & Fils

December 30, 2020January 1, 2021 Treve Ring 10170 Views champagne, grower champagne

Founded in 1894, Champagne Agrapart & Fils has rightfully emerged as one of the finest grower estates in the Côte

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Highlights: Champagne Robert Moncuit Blanc de Blancs Le Mesnil Sur Oger Grand Cru 2012

December 23, 2020 jamiegoode 5923 Views

Moncuit farm without herbicides and pesticides, and are organic but not certified. The base wine for this vintage 2012 is

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Champagne Features 

Champagne Billecart-Salmon’s Brut Nature, Sous Bois and Cuvée Louis Salmon

November 18, 2020November 18, 2020 jamiegoode 9861 Views

Jamie Goode tastes three of the top wines from Champagne Billecart-Salmon with Mathieu Roland-Billecart, who since 2019 has been CEO

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Champagne Highlights 

Highlights: Champagne Pierre Paillard Les Parcelles 15 Grand Cru Bouzy Extra Brut NV

November 6, 2020November 23, 2020 jamiegoode 10976 Views

Very impressed with this Pinot Noir-dominated Champagne from Antoine and Quentin Paillard. This Cuvée is made from 22 individually vinified

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Champagne England Features 

English Sparkling Wine vs Champagne

November 2, 2020November 2, 2020 jamiegoode 10019 Views Sparkling wine

Here are the results of Noble Rot’s Second English Sparkling wine versus Champagne blind tasting, which was recently held in

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Champagne Highlights 

Highlights: Roederer + Starck brut nature Champagnes

November 1, 2020February 17, 2021 jamiegoode 6483 Views

This is the third vintage of the collaboration between designer Philippe Starck and the Champagne house Roederer. There are a

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Alentejo: a study in eight wines, from a region focused on sustainability
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Alentejo: a study in eight wines, from a region focused on sustainability

October 20, 2025October 20, 2025 jamiegoode

Website: https://sustentabilidade.vinhosdoalentejo.pt/en/wines-of-alentejo-sustainability-programme The Alentejo is an important wine region in southern Portugal, with 23 000 hectares of vines, spread over

It Takes a Village: a remarkable collaborative Australian Claret
Australia Features Latest 

It Takes a Village: a remarkable collaborative Australian Claret

October 20, 2025 jamiegoode
Carlos Raposo, World Wild Wines: in search of precision from Dão, Portugal
Features Latest Portugal 

Carlos Raposo, World Wild Wines: in search of precision from Dão, Portugal

October 19, 2025 jamiegoode
Book review: Jane Masters and Andrew Neather, Rooted in change: the stories behind sustainable wine
Features Latest 

Book review: Jane Masters and Andrew Neather, Rooted in change: the stories behind sustainable wine

October 19, 2025 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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