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Photos from a day in the vineyards of Roussillon

June 4, 2025June 4, 2025 jamiegoode 569 Views Roussillon

Amazing landscapes, varied terroirs, more than half of its 19 000 hectares are old vines (50 years plus). More to

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Château des Tourettes and Tinus, the Luberon outpost of Jean-Marie Guffens

January 9, 2025January 9, 2025 jamiegoode 1213 Views

It was back in 1979 when Jean-Marie Guffens established his famous Mâconnais estate Domaine Guffens-Heynen which was later joined by

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Most Memorable Champagnes of 2024

January 7, 2025January 10, 2025 Treve Ring 1633 Views Sparkling wine

Though Champagne sales have continued to slide worldwide, Goode and I have done our best to buoy the market this

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Features France 

Domaine du Gringet, taking over the reins of Domaine Belluard, making remarkable Savoie wines

November 18, 2024April 25, 2025 jamiegoode 2182 Views Savoie

I tasted these wines with Miguel Sarzies, who’s part owner, vigneron and winemaker at Domaine du Gringet, a remarkable producer

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Highlights: Domaine Plaisance-Penavayre Bouysselet 2021 Vin de France

October 22, 2024April 25, 2025 jamiegoode 1187 Views

Website: https://www.plaisancepenavayre.fr/ Domaine Plaisance-Penavayre Bouysselet 2021 Vin de France13.5% alcohol. This is organically farmed Bouysselet, a rare old Fronton variety

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Exploring the Basque coast: Biarritz, San Sebastian, Guéthary and Saint Jean de Luz

October 12, 2024October 12, 2024 jamiegoode 2051 Views

I recently spent a weekend on the Basque coast, flying in to Biarritz and staying the night. The following day

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France Highlights 

Highlights: Gérard Bertrand An 1152 Cahors Malbec 2020

October 3, 2024March 29, 2025 jamiegoode 1068 Views cahors, Malbec

Cahors, in the Southwest of France, is the region of Malbec. It’s a wonderful place making lovely wines, but with

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Features France 

Domaine of the Bee: interesting wines from the Roussillon

August 23, 2024June 5, 2025 jamiegoode 1857 Views Roussillon

Website: https://domaineofthebee.com/ Since 2007 master of wine Justin-Howard Sneyd and his wife Amanda have been part-time vignerons. They purchased some

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Catching up with Plaimont, the super-cooperative focusing on recovering lost grape varieties in France’s southwest

June 19, 2024March 28, 2025 jamiegoode 4230 Views

Website: https://www.plaimont.com/en/ Plaimont have a thing about looking for disappeared (or nearly disappeared) grapes, and this tasting was a great

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Highlights: two affordable orange wines from Bertrand and Cramele Recas

March 18, 2024May 21, 2024 jamiegoode 3047 Views Languedoc, orange wine

Tried these two orange wines side by side. It’s interesting to see this category of skin-fermented whites (often called orange

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Zinfandel: California’s own grape, tasting 59 top examples
California Features Latest Regions 

Zinfandel: California’s own grape, tasting 59 top examples

June 18, 2025June 18, 2025 jamiegoode

My first real encounter with Zinfandel was reading an excellent book by US author David Darlington, titled Angels’ Visits, and

The wines of Quinta de Tourais, Douro, Portugal
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The wines of Quinta de Tourais, Douro, Portugal

June 15, 2025 jamiegoode
Visiting Folias de Baco, a Douro winery making compelling natural wines under the Uivo brand (updated June 2025)
Features Portugal Profiles Regions 

Visiting Folias de Baco, a Douro winery making compelling natural wines under the Uivo brand (updated June 2025)

June 14, 2025June 15, 2025 jamiegoode
Nigel Greening on navigating the tricky waters wine finds itself in, and the problems with ‘fine wine’: where does Felton Road sit?
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Nigel Greening on navigating the tricky waters wine finds itself in, and the problems with ‘fine wine’: where does Felton Road sit?

June 12, 2025June 12, 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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