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Domaine Capmartin, naturally made wines from southwest France

March 16, 2023April 28, 2023 jamiegoode 5292 Views

Website: Domaine Capmartin, southwest France This is a family winery, now run by Simon Capmartin. His father created the domaine

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Champagne France Highlights Latest Sparkling wine 

Memorable Champagnes of 2022

January 3, 2023January 3, 2023 Treve Ring 5388 Views

Treve Ring and Jamie Goode pick their memorable Champagnes of 2022. First up, it’s Ring’s selections, and then Goode’s. It

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Austria Beaujolais Canada Features France Italy New to wine 

Pét-Nat: A Primer

December 22, 2022January 23, 2023 Treve Ring 21761 Views pet-nat

You’ve see them on the shelves of hip wine shops and on the lists of hot wine bars. They’re the

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Visiting Clos du Temple, home to the world’s most expensive rosé

December 4, 2022December 4, 2022 jamiegoode 6798 Views

Back in 2016 Gerard Bertrand purchased a beautiful estate in the rolling hills of the Haut Cabrières, and from the

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Regenerative Viticulture, now in French

September 14, 2022September 14, 2022 jamiegoode 3051 Views

Regenerative Viticulture, my latest book, is now available in French. I’ve worked with Stéphane Revel who has translated it. Links:

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Grenache : a Study

September 8, 2022September 13, 2022 Treve Ring 5623 Views Garnacha, Grenache

(/ɡrəˈnæʃ/) Grenache is one of the most widely planted red wine grapes planted on the globe, which would explain the

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Jean Claude Mas, of Paul Mas: a Languedoc wine entrepreneur

August 9, 2022 jamiegoode 9324 Views

Website: https://www.paulmas.com/en/a-propos/jean-claude-mas/ Paul Mas is one of the Langeudoc’s most astute wine producers. Established as recently as 1999 by Jean

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The Jessica Julmy interview: transforming Galoupet in Provence – regenerative farming meets alternative packaging

August 5, 2022August 11, 2022 jamiegoode 6397 Views Provence, Rose

Website: https://www.chateaugaloupet.com/en-gb/home Jessica Julmy is in charge of Galoupet, a Provence winery recently purchased by Moët-Hennessy. Previously, Julmy had been

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Barossa meets Bordeaux with this new Penfolds x Dourthe collaboration wine, Penfolds II

July 27, 2022August 4, 2022 Lisse Garnett 7482 Views

Take Bordeaux master blenders, Dourthe, add 175 years of Australian patience, grit, ambition and skill – mix in that infamous

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Visiting Plaimont, a super-co-op that has changed the face of southwest France

July 17, 2022August 3, 2022 Lisse Garnett 7122 Views

Forty years ago Gascony produced some of the most unloved wines in Europe. Today, the region has Plaimont – a

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Paying more for quality, and the crisis of affordability in wine
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Paying more for quality, and the crisis of affordability in wine

October 8, 2025October 8, 2025 jamiegoode

It costs money to make wine. Quite a bit of it, if it’s done well. The chief problem is this:

Visiting Aya Estate for the opening of their winery: Bulgarian wine playing at a new level
Bulgaria Features Latest Regions 

Visiting Aya Estate for the opening of their winery: Bulgarian wine playing at a new level

October 7, 2025October 7, 2025 jamiegoode
Bonhams is auctioning off the cellar of Locanda Locatelli, and a few of us get to try some of the gems over lunch
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Bonhams is auctioning off the cellar of Locanda Locatelli, and a few of us get to try some of the gems over lunch

October 6, 2025October 6, 2025 jamiegoode
A quick guide to New Zealand wine
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A quick guide to New Zealand wine

October 5, 2025October 6, 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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