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Features Latest New Zealand 

Zephyr: Marlborough gets interesting in the hands of Ben Glover

February 8, 2024February 8, 2024 jamiegoode 5947 Views Marlborough

Website: https://zephyrwine.com/about.htm Ben Glover made his reputation as a winemaker working for Brent Marris at Wither Hills, and later Mud

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Highlights Latest New Zealand 

Highlights: The Hermit Ram Salty White 2022

January 15, 2024January 15, 2024 jamiegoode 5389 Views North Canterbury

This is a blend of Pinot Blanc, Sauvignon Blanc and Riesling from organic vineyards in North Canterbury. They are fermented

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Features Latest New Zealand Regions 

The Hawke’s Bay Chardonnay collection 2021 vintage: some of New Zealand’s best Chardonnays

December 26, 2023 jamiegoode 4556 Views Chardonnay, Hawke's Bay

Hawke’s Bay has a had a good run of recent vintages, despite the awful floods that hit in February 2023,

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Features New Zealand 

Spoke: a new range of boutique wines from New Zealand’s Marlborough region

August 18, 2023March 5, 2024 jamiegoode 7336 Views Marlborough

Website: https://vineyard-productions.com/wine/spoke/ Marlborough is home to some big wineries. By my reckoning there are five that each process more than

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Features New Zealand 

Marlborough at 50: Tohu, the first Māori-owned and operated winery in New Zealand

June 16, 2023July 9, 2023 jamiegoode 6804 Views Marlborough

Website: https://www.tohuwines.co.nz/ Over recent years, the New Zealand wine industry address some of the historical imbalances that saw Māori culture

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New Zealand Profiles 

Akitu: top Pinot Noirs from Wanaka, Central Otago

May 20, 2023May 20, 2023 jamiegoode 12948 Views Central Otago, pinot noir

Website: https://akitu.wine/ (with notes added on the latest releases, April 2023) Central Otago isn’t just a single region. It’s composed

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Features New Zealand Videos 

Marlborough at 50: tasting three of the region’s best-known Sauvignons on camera

May 13, 2023May 13, 2023 jamiegoode 9772 Views Marlborough, Sauvignon Blanc

I popped into a local supermarket and found these three popular Sauvignon Blancs from the 2022 vintage, took them home,

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Features New Zealand Wine Science 

Marlborough at 50: a new project to safeguard the vineyard of the future, using accelerated clonal selection

March 15, 2023May 13, 2023 jamiegoode 8910 Views

So the Marlborough wine region turns 50 this year. With its continued growth and success, you could forgive the region

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Features New Zealand Regions 

Marlborough at 50: Dog Point, one of the region’s leading smaller wineries

February 20, 2023March 26, 2025 jamiegoode 9998 Views Marlborough

Dog Point was started by Ivan and Margaret Sutherland and James and Wendy Healy, who previously worked together at Cloudy

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Features Latest New Zealand 

Marlborough at 50: the remarkable Yealands story

February 16, 2023May 13, 2023 jamiegoode 9681 Views

‘Think boldly, tread lightly, and never say it can’t be done:’ that’s the official motto Peter Yealands chose for the

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Features Latest Spain 

Silice, beautiful natural wines from Ribeira Sacra, Spain

May 23, 2026 jamiegoode

Silice is the project of Fredi Torres (pictured above), and is based in Ribeira Sacra. He began Silice in 2013

RPM, a music-inspired low-intervention winery from Portugal
Features Latest Portugal 

RPM, a music-inspired low-intervention winery from Portugal

May 23, 2026May 23, 2026 jamiegoode
Esterházy, a historical estate reborn, making lovely wines from Austria’s Leithaberg (Burgenland) region
Austria Features Latest 

Esterházy, a historical estate reborn, making lovely wines from Austria’s Leithaberg (Burgenland) region

May 21, 2026May 22, 2026 jamiegoode
Netzl and Christina, two generations from the same winery in Austria’s Carnuntum region
Austria Features Latest 

Netzl and Christina, two generations from the same winery in Austria’s Carnuntum region

May 18, 2026May 18, 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.

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.

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