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England Features Profiles 

Catching up with Nyetimber, England’s Sparkling Champion

April 13, 2022May 15, 2022 Treve Ring 7747 Views Sparkling wine

As has been widely chronicled, Nyetimber is the largest, and best known English sparkling wine producer, and their growth and

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England Highlights 

Highlights: two top whites from Tillingham, Sussex, England

March 15, 2022May 15, 2022 jamiegoode 4682 Views

I’ve written about Tillingham, one of the UK’s most exciting wineries, before on this site. Here are notes on two

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English Chardonnay: a quality revolution

January 22, 2022February 25, 2022 jamiegoode 8288 Views Chardonnay

It’s interesting times for English still wines at the moment, and one variety catching the eye is Chardonnay. Sommelier Donald

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England Features 

Freedom of the Press: an exciting new English winery

January 20, 2022 jamiegoode 5653 Views

Website: https://www.freedomofthepress.co.uk/ Gavin Carver established Freedom of the Press winery in 2020. Initially, it was to be an urban winery

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England Highlights 

Highlights: Lyme Bay Winery Pinot Noir 2020 Essex, England

January 18, 2022February 11, 2022 jamiegoode 6019 Views pinot noir

This is an impressive Pinot Noir showing the still wine potential of the Crouch Valley in Essex. It’s sourced from

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England Features Regions 

The Crouch Valley, Essex: a leading region for English still wines

December 20, 2021July 23, 2024 jamiegoode 14671 Views

The Crouch Valley in Essex is turning out to be a hotspot for still English wines. The reason? It is

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Video: The Crouch Valley in Essex is emerging as a leading English wine region

December 19, 2021December 19, 2021 jamiegoode 6592 Views

There is a lot of excitement about the Crouch Valley in Essex, which is emerging as a top wine growing

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England Highlights 

Highlights: two from Flint, an interesting producer in East Anglia, England

November 26, 2021December 14, 2021 jamiegoode 5110 Views

Flint are based in East Anglia, and I’ve reviewed them before here. They have just released two small production wines

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New releases from the Vagabond Urban Winery, London

November 21, 2021November 20, 2022 jamiegoode 8239 Views

Vagabond is an urban winery based in Battersea Power Station in London. Winemaker Jose Quintana took over here in September

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Simpsons Wine Estate: leading still and sparkling wines from the Kent North Downs, England

November 19, 2021November 19, 2021 jamiegoode 7934 Views

Website: https://simpsonswine.com/ Jamie Goode and Lisse Garnett visit a relatively new winery in the Kent North Downs who are making

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Visiting Black Chalk, tasting current releases and the exciting 2025 base wine blends, at this superb English sparkling wine producer
England Features Latest Profiles 

Visiting Black Chalk, tasting current releases and the exciting 2025 base wine blends, at this superb English sparkling wine producer

March 20, 2026 jamiegoode

Black Chalk are one of the most interesting English sparkling wine producers, and they’ve made some impressive wines since their

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Fryer’s Cove: precise wines from the cool west coast of South Africa

March 20, 2026 jamiegoode
Six Portuguese wines that flourished in the 2025 edition of the International Wine Challenge
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Six Portuguese wines that flourished in the 2025 edition of the International Wine Challenge

March 19, 2026March 20, 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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