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Giorgio Melandri’s Mutililiana wines: Sangiovese thrives in Modigliana, Romagna

March 19, 2021June 8, 2021 Lisse Garnett 8223 Views Sangiovese

Modigliana, in Italy’s Romagna region, is producing Sangiovese like you have never tasted before. The Mutiliana wines of Giorgio Melandri

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Chile Features Italy 

An ode to Carménère, Grande Vidure, Merlot Peumo…

February 19, 2021June 8, 2021 Lisse Garnett 6623 Views carmenere

Lisse Garnett reports on this Coelocanth of grape varieties. Once a major Bordeaux variety, Carménère was wiped out in the

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Burgundy Features Italy 

A celebration of the underdog vintages: Burgundy 2017 and Barolo 2014

January 14, 2021January 14, 2021 jamiegoode 5762 Views barolo, piedmont

Vintage variation is one of the facets of wine that makes it so complicated, but also so engrossing. Most wines

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capers
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Video: [food] how capers are made

December 14, 2020 jamiegoode 9812 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 8855 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 5617 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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Highlights Italy 

Highlight: Manuel Pulcini Marròca 2018

September 24, 2020October 9, 2020 Treve Ring 6609 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 6760 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 Italy 

Highlights: Gaja Ca’Marcanda Promis 2017 Toscana, Italy

August 2, 2020November 14, 2020 jamiegoode 8866 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 Italy 

Highlights: Monastero Suore Cistercensi Coenobium & Benedic

July 6, 2020July 6, 2020 Treve Ring 11529 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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Exploring the Hunter Valley (3) Margan
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Exploring the Hunter Valley (3) Margan

August 19, 2026August 19, 2026 jamiegoode

Website: https://www.margan.com.au/ Margan is an important Hunter Valley producer making some very interesting wines, and championing newer varieties that show

Exploring the Hunter Valley (2) judging the Hunter Valley Wine Show
Australia Features Latest 

Exploring the Hunter Valley (2) judging the Hunter Valley Wine Show

August 19, 2026August 19, 2026 jamiegoode
Exploring the Hunter Valley, Australia’s oldest wine region (1) introduction
Australia Features Latest Regions 

Exploring the Hunter Valley, Australia’s oldest wine region (1) introduction

August 19, 2026 jamiegoode
Four wines from Virginia in the USA
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Four wines from Virginia in the USA

August 17, 2026August 17, 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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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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