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Highlights: Balassa Szent Tamás Furmint 2019 Tokaji, Hungary

February 21, 2022February 21, 2022 jamiegoode 4956 Views Furmint

Furmint is an ancient grape with at least 450 years of history. Hungary has most of it, with almost 4000

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Highlights Rhone 

Highlights: Domaine des Miquettes Saint Joseph 2020 Northern Rhône

February 20, 2022May 15, 2022 jamiegoode 4885 Views

Paul Estève and Crystelle Vareille are the people behind Domaine des Miquettes, a small domaine in Saint Joseph with 2.6

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Features France 

A Gérard Bertrand dinner on the Seine, with some prestige cuvées

February 19, 2022February 24, 2022 jamiegoode 4418 Views

As part of Wine Paris, I attended a Gérard Bertrand dinner on Ducasse sur Seine, which is a remarkable electric

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Five go to caper island: Celebrating Malvasia in the Aeolian Islands, off the coast of Sicily

February 18, 2022February 18, 2022 jamiegoode 7044 Views Sicily

Five go to Caper Island! We fly into Catania (Sicily) and drive past Mount Etna to the port of Melazza.

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Chile Features Highlights 

Highlights: De Martino Viejas Tinajas Cinsault 2020, Itata, Chile

February 14, 2022February 24, 2022 Treve Ring 5596 Views Amphora, Itata

This wine really launched De Martino, and Itata, on the world wine map when the first vintage in 2011 was

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Features France Wine Science 

Plaimont: looking to old varieties for future success

February 12, 2022February 24, 2022 jamiegoode 6661 Views

Back in 1979, three co-operative wineries in the southwest of France joined forces. The cellars of Plaisance, Aignan and Saint

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Burgundy Features 

The 2019s from Domaine de la Romanée-Conti

February 11, 2022February 24, 2022 jamiegoode 12015 Views

Jamie Goode tastes the Domaine de la Romanée-Conti 2019 releases Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, usually just referred to as DRC,

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Chile Features 

New Wave Chile is here, with a little help from South Africa: the wines of Longavi

February 10, 2022May 15, 2022 Lisse Garnett 5329 Views

Inspired by the Swartland Revolution, three men have started a cross cultural company making low intervention wines from old vines

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South Africa Sparkling wine 

The Wines of Cap Classique Pieter Ferreira

February 9, 2022February 24, 2022 Treve Ring 5874 Views MCC

When you’re known in the wine world as Mr. and Mrs. Bubbles, it’s understood that you take sparkling seriously. Ann

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Canada Features Profiles 

Lightfoot & Wolfville: exciting wines from Nova Scotia, Canada

February 7, 2022May 15, 2022 jamiegoode 5479 Views Nova Scotia

Lightfoot & Wolfville have, in a short time, established themselves as one of Nova Scotia’s – and also Canada’s –

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Tasting some wines from Bolivia: Jardín Oculto and Yokich
Features Latest 

Tasting some wines from Bolivia: Jardín Oculto and Yokich

September 28, 2025 jamiegoode

I’ve tasted a lot of wines before, but this was the first time I’d tried any from Bolivia. Nayan Gowda,

Champagne Salon and Delamotte: the 2015 Salon release, and a look at the current Delamotte range
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Champagne Salon and Delamotte: the 2015 Salon release, and a look at the current Delamotte range

September 26, 2025September 27, 2025 jamiegoode
Icelandic pharma-titan, Robert Wessman of Maison Wessman in Bergerac and his Wine Director, Lise Sadirac, fight for a new Issigeac micro-appellation with musical backing from Nora Jones 
Features France France Latest 

Icelandic pharma-titan, Robert Wessman of Maison Wessman in Bergerac and his Wine Director, Lise Sadirac, fight for a new Issigeac micro-appellation with musical backing from Nora Jones 

September 25, 2025September 25, 2025 Lisse Garnett
The Judgement of Cape Town
Features Latest South Africa 

The Judgement of Cape Town

September 23, 2025September 23, 2025 Treve Ring

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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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