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Fontodi chianti classico
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Chianti Classico Deep Dive (2) Fontodi

December 20, 2023December 22, 2023 jamiegoode 9282 Views Chianti Classico, Sangiovese

Website: https://www.fontodi.com/en/Home.html Fontodi is one of the top properties in Chianti Classico. I last visited back in 2008, so it

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Video: visiting the Chianti Classico wine region, all four episodes

December 10, 2023December 10, 2023 jamiegoode 6267 Views Chianti Classico

Four wine friends – John Szabo, Michael Godel, Jamie Goode and Emily Harman – visit the Chianti Classico wine region.

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Highlights: Pasqua Hey French: You Could Have Made This But You Didn’t

December 6, 2023December 27, 2023 jamiegoode 8162 Views

This is something a bit different. It’s a non-vintage blend, but it’s high end. And it has an arty label.

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Chianti Classico Deep Dive (1) Bindi Sergardi

December 4, 2023December 4, 2023 jamiegoode 5260 Views Chianti Classico

Website: https://www.bindisergardi.it/en/ This is the first in a series of articles based on a week in Chianti Classico, a wine

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Highlights: Castello di Fonterutoli Badiòla Chianti Classico Gran Selezione 2017 Italy

December 1, 2023 jamiegoode 3439 Views Chianti Classico

The new category of Gran Selezzione has been a real boost to Chianti Classico, and here’s a really good example,

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Allegrini’s La Poja: a vertical tasting of this important Veneto wine

September 26, 2023March 5, 2024 jamiegoode 3445 Views veneto

Website: https://allegrini.it/en/ Silvia and Francesco Allegrini are the seventh generation involved with the business, and they presented this vertical tasting

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In Montalcino: the Challenging 2023 Vintage

September 18, 2023March 5, 2024 Treve Ring 7274 Views Brunello di Montalcino, Harvest, Toscana

I spent time in Montalcino in end August, the last opportunity to taste with winemakers before they are headstrong into

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In Montalcino: Canalicchio di Sopra

September 13, 2023September 18, 2023 Treve Ring 5993 Views Brunello di Montalcino, Toscana

I knew I would like Francesco Ripaccioli when he professed his deep love for Champagne. Francesco, cellar rat / managing

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alternative italian grape varieties
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The rare grape varieties of Italy: a Texsom seminar

September 7, 2023March 5, 2024 jamiegoode 3972 Views

A Texsom seminar led by Marquita Levy-Pennington and Shelley Lindgren. ‘We could have this seminar last for two weeks,’ says

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Highlights: La Spinetta Timorasso 2021, Piemonte, Italy

September 4, 2023March 5, 2024 Treve Ring 4733 Views Piemonte

Timorasso is an ancient indigenous grape variety of Piemonte, worthy and regarded enough to have its own DOC (!). This

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Video: visiting an agroforestry coffee plantation in Brazil, the 15 hectare Sombra experiment that’s a collaboration between Fazenda Mió and Volcano Coffee Works in the UK
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Video: visiting an agroforestry coffee plantation in Brazil, the 15 hectare Sombra experiment that’s a collaboration between Fazenda Mió and Volcano Coffee Works in the UK

July 13, 2026 jamiegoode

Coffee is often grown as a monocrop. Here, at Fazenda Mió in Brazil I’m visiting a 15 hectare agroforestry experiment,

Six wines from UK independent wine merchant Tanners
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Six wines from UK independent wine merchant Tanners

July 11, 2026July 11, 2026 jamiegoode
Champagne Perrier Jouët have implemented regenerative viticulture in half of their vineyard area, and they are already seeing differences in the base wines
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Champagne Perrier Jouët have implemented regenerative viticulture in half of their vineyard area, and they are already seeing differences in the base wines

July 9, 2026 jamiegoode
Highlights: Klein Constantia Vin de Constance 2023 South Africa
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Highlights: Klein Constantia Vin de Constance 2023 South Africa

July 8, 2026July 8, 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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