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Highlights New Zealand 

Highlights: Rimapere Sauvignon Blanc

July 3, 2021August 1, 2021 jamiegoode 5487 Views Marlborough, Sauvignon Blanc

Edmond de Rotschild Heritage‘s wine group is a collection of nine wineries, taking in Bordeaux, South Africa, Rioja (Macan), Argentina

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Highlights New Zealand 

Highlights: Three Crows Syrah 2019 Bridge Pa, Hawke’s Bay

May 1, 2021August 1, 2021 jamiegoode 6162 Views syrah

Hawke’s Bay, in New Zealand, is home to some of New Zealand’s best red wines, including some impressive Syrah. This

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Corofin: new releases from one of Marlborough’s most interesting producers

April 25, 2021April 25, 2021 jamiegoode 6237 Views Chardonnay, Marlborough, pinot noir

These are the 2019 releases from one of Marlborough’s most interesting producers. Mike and Anna Paterson have been making their

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Neudorf, one of New Zealand’s top small wineries, with Rosie Finn

February 10, 2021 jamiegoode 9925 Views Nelson

On Instagram Live, I caught up with Rosie Finn, who since 2016 has been back in New Zealand working at

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New Zealand Videos 

Video: Kumeu River, New Zealand’s most celebrated Chardonnay producer

January 31, 2021February 3, 2021 jamiegoode 6926 Views Chardonnay

A film from a visit to Kumeu River in west Auckland, New Zealand. The Brajkovich family started making wine here

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Millton Crazy by Nature wines: Cosmo Red and Sirius White

January 25, 2021January 25, 2021 jamiegoode 9088 Views biodynamic

I’ve visited James and Annie Millton – biodynamic pioneers in New Zealand’s Gisborne region – a few times now. Here’s

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New Zealand Videos 

Graham Norton’s celebrity wines: tasting the Sauvignon Blanc and ‘Pink by Design’

January 12, 2021January 18, 2021 jamiegoode 12312 Views Sauvignon Blanc

Since 2014 Graham Norton – comedian, actor and talk show host – has been endorsing a range of wines made

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Highlights New Zealand 

Highlights: Black Estate Netherwood Pinot Noir 2014 Waipara Valley, New Zealand

January 4, 2021January 18, 2021 jamiegoode 4831 Views North Canterbury, pinot noir

This is a deeply impressive New Zealand Pinot Noir, from Black Estate. Winemaking is pretty natural here, and the house

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Features New Zealand 

Hawke’s Bay Chardonnay (2) six more top wines tasted

December 27, 2020February 17, 2021 jamiegoode 5497 Views Chardonnay, hawkes bay

A few days ago I reported on six of the twelve Chardonnays (and Ring added her notes, after tasting through

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Features New Zealand 

Hawke’s Bay Chardonnay (1) six top wines tasted

December 25, 2020February 17, 2021 jamiegoode 7073 Views champagne

January 6, 2021 – I received the same wines as Goode, a few weeks later, and thought it would be

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Exploring the Roussillon (7) Château Lauriga
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Exploring the Roussillon (7) Château Lauriga

January 2, 2026 jamiegoode

Website: https://www.lauriga.com/en/ Lauriga is based in Thuir, in the Les Aspres terroir of the Roussillon. It’s an old estate that

2025, a wine year in pictures
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2025, a wine year in pictures

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A mini-Champagne study: Ayala, Bollinger, Albert Lebrun, Forget Brimont
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A mini-Champagne study: Ayala, Bollinger, Albert Lebrun, Forget Brimont

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Exploring the Roussillon (5) Torredemer Mangin
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Exploring the Roussillon (5) Torredemer Mangin

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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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