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Video: visiting Simpsons wine estate, Kent, England

November 19, 2021 jamiegoode 6976 Views

Jamie Goode and Lisse Garnett visit the Simpsons winery in East Kent. In 2016 Charles and Ruth Simpson, who’d already

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England Features 

The Business of English Wine (3): making it and selling it

November 10, 2021December 14, 2021 Lisse Garnett 9257 Views

In the third of our series on English wine, Lisse Garnett speaks to three contrasting wine producers about this year’s

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The Business of English Wine (2): Robin Hutson, Chairman of the Pig Hotels and founder of Hotel du Vin

October 19, 2021November 9, 2021 Lisse Garnett 12952 Views

In the second of our series on the business of English wine, Lisse Garnett interviews influential hotelier Robin Hutson, the

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England Features 

The Business of English Wine (1): James Dodson, Vine-Works

October 6, 2021October 21, 2021 Lisse Garnett 8949 Views

In the first interview of our series on the business of English wine, Lisse Garnett interviews James Dodson of Vine-Works,

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Modesty and talent: Balfour wines from Hush Heath Estate are actually pretty rad…

August 6, 2021August 10, 2021 Lisse Garnett 10927 Views

Lisse Garnett and Jamie Goode visit the estate and report back on an operation that isn’t quite as the marketing

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England Videos 

Video: visiting Busi-Jacobsohn, a new sparkling wine producer in East Sussex, England

July 15, 2021 jamiegoode 4518 Views

You can read a full write-up of the visit here https://wineanorak.com/2021/06/22/busi-jacobsohn-and-exciting-new-english-sparkling-wine-producer/

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Busi-Jacobsohn, an exciting new English sparkling wine producer

June 22, 2021July 15, 2021 jamiegoode 6931 Views

Website: https://www.busijacobsohn.com/ Based in Eridge, near Tunbridge Wells, a new sparkling wine producer has sprung up. Busi-Jacobsohn. Susanna Busi Jacobsohn

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England Highlights 

Highlights: Louis Pommery Brut NV England

June 10, 2021August 1, 2021 jamiegoode 6376 Views Sparkling wine

Champagne Pommery made the news in 2014 when they decided to start an operation in Hampshire, England, in partnership with

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England Highlights 

Highlights: two innovative wines from Litmus, England

June 9, 2021June 13, 2021 jamiegoode 4391 Views orange wine, pinot noir

Impressed by these two quite innovative wines from Litmus Wines, a winemaking consultancy based at Denbies winery in Surrey. Litmus

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England Profiles 

Urban Foxes, England

June 6, 2021June 6, 2021 jamiegoode 4766 Views

Website: https://www.urbanfoxeswinery.com/ Urban Foxes is the English sparkling and still wine project of Colette O’Leary and Rebecca Coates. They are

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Hacienda el Ternero is making impressive wines from the north of Rioja

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Hacienda el Ternero is a little unusual in Rioja in that it’s a single estate, making wine from its own

Authentic Wines, a collaborative natural wine project from Portugal’s Lisboa region making wines under the Favonius label
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Authentic Wines, a collaborative natural wine project from Portugal’s Lisboa region making wines under the Favonius label

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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
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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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