Skip to content
Tuesday, September 22, 2026
Latest:
  • Highlights: an amazing vinous cider from Little Pomona
  • Video: Vintage time at Hundred Hills, making the Rosé de Saignée cuvée
  • Highlights: Stesso Stesso Beulah Violetta Rosso 2024 Umbria, Italy
  • Highlights: Cecilia Pinot Noir 2024 Ceres, South Africa
  • Notes from a remarkable long lunch at Gaveto in Matosinhos, Portugal, with Niepoort, Transmission and friends, plus some amazing Champagnes
wineanorak.com

wineanorak.com

online wine magazine

  • blog
    • Jamie Goode’s Wine Blog
    • My old blog: 2006-2010
  • Videos
  • Regions
  • New to wine
  • Profiles
  • Food and wine
  • Features
  • Travel
  • Wine Science
  • Highlights

Germany

Germany Videos 

Video: at the VDP Grosses Gewächs tasting 2020

August 26, 2020August 26, 2020 jamiegoode 7977 Views

On Wednesday I was in Wiesbaden, Germany, for a very special tasting. It was the 2020 Grosses Gewächs tasting, featuring

Read more
Features Germany 

German champions: the multiple faces of Riesling

August 3, 2020August 3, 2020 jamiegoode 6696 Views Riesling

This was a tasting of six Riesling wines from members of the VDP – a private German winery association founded

Read more
Germany Highlights 

Highlights: Alte Vogtei Spätburgunder 2018 from Baden – amazing value

May 3, 2020May 14, 2020 jamiegoode 8154 Views pinot noir

I’m often reviewing fancy wines here. So it’s nice to find a wine for the people – in this case,

Read more
Germany Highlights 

Highlights: Staffelter Hof Little Bastard 2019 Mosel

February 1, 2020 jamiegoode 7596 Views Natural wine

Jan Matthias Klein runs his family estate, Staettler Hof in Kröv, in Germany’s Mosel region. As well as some more

Read more
Germany Videos 

Video: in the Mosel, visiting Fio in Piesport

December 23, 2019 jamiegoode 5238 Views

Here’s a quick film from last week’s visit to the Mosel. Here, I’m in the vineyards with Daniel Niepoort of

Read more
Gallery Germany 

Gallery: in the Mosel, Germany

December 19, 2019December 19, 2019 jamiegoode 5799 Views Mosel

For the last couple of days I’ve been in the Mosel, one of the most remarkable wine regions in the

Read more
Features Germany 

Germany’s diversity in eight wines

November 12, 2019November 12, 2019 jamiegoode 9319 Views

A quick tasting of eight different German wines showing some of the diversity of this country’s wine scene Sander Cosmic

Read more
Germany Profiles Regions 

Jean Stodden, Ahr, Germany

March 20, 2015October 4, 2019 jamiegoode 6006 Views

Visiting the most northerly of Germany’s wine regions, where Pinot Noir is king Jean Stodden, run by Alexander Stodden, is

Read more
  • Next →

Features

Notes from a remarkable long lunch at Gaveto in Matosinhos, Portugal, with Niepoort, Transmission and friends, plus some amazing Champagnes
Champagne Features Latest Portugal Regions 

Notes from a remarkable long lunch at Gaveto in Matosinhos, Portugal, with Niepoort, Transmission and friends, plus some amazing Champagnes

September 16, 2026 jamiegoode

As far as lunches go, this was one of the best I’ve had in recent years, held at the remarkable

Going to the football? Like good wine? A tasting trip through Islington’s wine bars pairs well with tickets for a north London matchday
Features Sponsored content 

Going to the football? Like good wine? A tasting trip through Islington’s wine bars pairs well with tickets for a north London matchday

September 14, 2026 jamiegoode
Pfalz Riesling: tasting through some of the top examples at the VDP tasting 2026
Features Germany Latest 

Pfalz Riesling: tasting through some of the top examples at the VDP tasting 2026

September 14, 2026September 14, 2026 jamiegoode
the central dozen - 12 central otago pinot noirs
Features Latest New Zealand Regions 

The Central Dozen, an important exercise in telling the contemporary story of Central Otago Pinot Noir through a curated selection of 12 bottles

September 12, 2026September 12, 2026 jamiegoode

Regions

  • Champagne
  • Burgundy
  • Bordeaux
  • Douro
  • New Zealand
  • Canada
  • South Africa
  • Australia

About Us

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.

This is an explanation of what an anorak is.

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.

As an Amazon Associate this website earns from qualifying purchases (for example, the links for purchasing books). Wineanorak also earns from Google AdSense display advertising.

You can contact Jamie at drjamiegoode@gmail.com Also, through my accounts at Twitter, Instagram and Mastodon

Country profiles

  • South Africa
  • Canada
  • New Zealand
  • France
  • Spain
  • USA
  • Australia

Contributors

  • Jamie Goode, Chief Anorak
  • Treve Ring, Correspondent Anorak
  • Lisse Garnett, Under Anorak
And here you can SUBSCRIBE to the wineanorak mailing list - once a month updates, with some more private content just for subscribers

My books

Copyright © 2026 wineanorak.com. All rights reserved. Powered by WordPress.
We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it.