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Highlights: Prophet’s Rock Home Vineyard Pinot Noir 2021 Central Otago, New Zealand

March 26, 2024 jamiegoode 5671 Views pinot noir

Website: https://www.prophetsrock.co.nz/ Prophet’s Rock Home Vineyard Pinot Noir 2021 Central Otago, New Zealand13.5% alcohol. Since 2005, Paul Pujol has been

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Zephyr: Marlborough gets interesting in the hands of Ben Glover

February 8, 2024February 8, 2024 jamiegoode 6380 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: The Hermit Ram Salty White 2022

January 15, 2024January 15, 2024 jamiegoode 5574 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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The Hawke’s Bay Chardonnay collection 2021 vintage: some of New Zealand’s best Chardonnays

December 26, 2023July 21, 2026 jamiegoode 4717 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 7490 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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Marlborough at 50: Tohu, the first Māori-owned and operated winery in New Zealand

June 16, 2023July 9, 2023 jamiegoode 7151 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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Akitu: top Pinot Noirs from Wanaka, Central Otago

May 20, 2023May 20, 2023 jamiegoode 13186 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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Marlborough at 50: tasting three of the region’s best-known Sauvignons on camera

May 13, 2023May 13, 2023 jamiegoode 10719 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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Marlborough at 50: a new project to safeguard the vineyard of the future, using accelerated clonal selection

March 15, 2023May 13, 2023 jamiegoode 9208 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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Marlborough at 50: Dog Point, one of the region’s leading smaller wineries

February 20, 2023March 26, 2025 jamiegoode 10598 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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A vertical of Vega Sicilia: taking a deep dive into Spain’s most celebrated wine producer
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A vertical of Vega Sicilia: taking a deep dive into Spain’s most celebrated wine producer

July 24, 2026July 24, 2026 jamiegoode

UK wine merchant Berry Bros & Rudd have just launched an offer of some back vintages of Vega Sicilia. (The

te kano, central otago
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Visiting Te Kano, an important producer with vineyards in Central Otago and Waitaki

July 23, 2026July 24, 2026 jamiegoode
Champagne Esterlin, an over-performing coop making superb wines
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Champagne Esterlin, an over-performing coop making superb wines

July 23, 2026July 23, 2026 jamiegoode
The impressive wines of Wolfgang Seher, Weinviertel, Austria
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The impressive wines of Wolfgang Seher, Weinviertel, Austria

July 22, 2026July 22, 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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