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Video: [food] how capers are made

December 14, 2020 jamiegoode 9490 Views

Capers are the immature flowers of Capparis spinosa, the caper bush, which have been preserved in salt. This grows all

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Italy Profiles 

Candialle: top wines from a Finnish couple in Tuscany

December 9, 2020December 18, 2020 jamiegoode 7266 Views chianti

I met Jarkko Peränen a few years ago at a wine symposium in Tampere, Finland. He’s Finnish, but now lives

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Highlights Italy 

Highlights: Mutiliana Ibbola Sangiovese Modigliana 2016 Romagna, Italy

November 30, 2020 jamiegoode 5467 Views Romagna, Sangiovese

Sangiovese is a singular grape variety. It’s genetic heritage is half southern and half central Italian, and Italy has most

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Highlight: Manuel Pulcini Marròca 2018

September 24, 2020October 9, 2020 Treve Ring 6431 Views biodynamics

Young winemaker Manuel Pulcini grew up in his family’s vineyards and winery on the outskirts of Rome, which imprinted into

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Features Italy 

Tedeschi: fine wines from Valpolicella, with Sabrina Tedeschi

August 14, 2020October 9, 2020 jamiegoode 6549 Views Valpolicella

Tedeschi are one of the historical family-owned producers in the Valpolicella. Over a Zoom call, I caught up with Sabrina

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Highlights: Gaja Ca’Marcanda Promis 2017 Toscana, Italy

August 2, 2020November 14, 2020 jamiegoode 8592 Views Tuscany

Gaja Ca’Marcanda Promis 2017 Toscana, Italy14% alcohol. This is from Gaja’s Tuscan estate in the Maremma, which they bought in

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Highlights: Monastero Suore Cistercensi Coenobium & Benedic

July 6, 2020July 6, 2020 Treve Ring 10881 Views Natural wine

These are not your typical Italian wines. Unless, that is, you usually take of natural wine made by nuns. In

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Features Italy 

A quick Franciacorta study

June 30, 2020July 1, 2020 jamiegoode 5993 Views Sparkling wine

Franciacorta is Italy’s premier region for sparkling wines. It’s an old region that reinvented itself around bubbles in the 1960s.

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Italy Profiles 

Vigneti Tardis, natural wines from Campania, Italy

March 8, 2020April 23, 2020 jamiegoode 9744 Views Campania, Natural wine

This is a collaborative winery. One of the partners is Jack Lewens of Shoreditch Michelin-starred restaurant Leroy, and the other

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Italy 

Highlights: three from Azienda Agricola Cortese, Sicily

February 12, 2020February 12, 2020 jamiegoode 5420 Views Sicily

These are affordable, organic wines from Vittoria in Sicily. The estate was purchased by Stefano and Marina Girelli in 2016,

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Videos: Robots in the vineyard, new technology applied
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Videos: Robots in the vineyard, new technology applied

May 14, 2026May 14, 2026 jamiegoode

Viticulture is expensive, and a lot of the cost is paying people to do quite boring, repetitive work. Of course,

Brent Marris, Emma Marris and The Ned, tasting wines from one of Marlborough’s (NZ) emerging dynasties
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Brent Marris, Emma Marris and The Ned, tasting wines from one of Marlborough’s (NZ) emerging dynasties

May 12, 2026May 12, 2026 jamiegoode
Brunia, an exciting cool-climate wine project from South Africa’s Walker Bay
Features Latest Regions South Africa 

Brunia, an exciting cool-climate wine project from South Africa’s Walker Bay

May 11, 2026May 11, 2026 jamiegoode
Cantina Antonioli are making lovely natural wines in the foothills of the Apennine mountain range in Italy’s Umbria
Features Italy Latest 

Cantina Antonioli are making lovely natural wines in the foothills of the Apennine mountain range in Italy’s Umbria

May 10, 2026May 12, 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.

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