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Highlights: Catherine & Pierre Breton Vouvray Demi-Sec 1989

August 13, 2021October 1, 2021 jamiegoode 5203 Views

On Tuesday I popped into the Sourcing Table to taste through some wines and discuss content for the website with

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The wines of Luis Seabra, Portugal

August 12, 2021August 12, 2021 jamiegoode 14720 Views Dão, Douro, granite, Schist, Vinho Verde

Luis Seabra made his name as winemaker for Niepoort, before leaving to set up his own project in 2013. Seabra’s

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Report: Top wines from Ribera del Duero, Spain

August 11, 2021August 11, 2021 jamiegoode 21020 Views Ribera del Duero

An overview of this important Spanish wine region, with notes on 40 top wines tasted Ribera del Duero is one

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Features South Africa 

Tasting the current releases from Restless River

August 10, 2021October 1, 2021 Treve Ring 6067 Views Hemel-en-Aarde

Restless River is a small, but mighty, family-owned winery in the cool Upper Hemel-en-Aarde Valley. Goode and I first visited

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Highlights: Dominio del Águila Reserva 2016 Ribera del Duero, Spain

August 9, 2021October 1, 2021 jamiegoode 5508 Views Ribera del Duero

Dominio del Águila is a winery based in La Aguilera, Riberal del Duero. It’s run by Jorge Monzón and Isabel

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Australia Profiles Regions 

Koerner: a new producer from the Clare Valley now making some of Australia’s most exciting wines

August 9, 2021August 9, 2021 jamiegoode 7226 Views Clare Valley, Riesling

Website: https://koernerwine.com.au/ The vineyards that are behind new Clare Valley superstar Koerner have been in the family for 45 years

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In Piedmonte: visiting Giuseppe Rinaldi, with Alessia and Carlotta

August 7, 2021August 7, 2021 jamiegoode 11584 Views barolo, piedmont

This was my first professional visit in Piedmont, and as they go, it was quite a good start. It was

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England Features Profiles Regions 

Modesty and talent: Balfour wines from Hush Heath Estate are actually pretty rad…

August 6, 2021August 10, 2021 Lisse Garnett 9327 Views

Lisse Garnett and Jamie Goode visit the estate and report back on an operation that isn’t quite as the marketing

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Visiting Gaja, one of Piedmont’s top producers, and seeing the new Alta Langa vineyards

August 5, 2021August 7, 2021 jamiegoode 20080 Views barbaresco, Nebbiolo

Barbaresco is a small town, and it is pretty much dominated by one producer, Gaja, who put this Piedmont appellation

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Highlights: G.D. Vajra Langhe Nebbiolo 2019 Piedmont, Italy

August 2, 2021August 2, 2021 jamiegoode 7254 Views Nebbiolo

I had this wine last night at a lovely restaurant in Pollenza, in Piedmont. It was a fancy place, but

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Tablas Creek and Château Beaucastel: a Wine Society tasting telling the story of how a leading Rhône domaine fell in love with California
California Features Latest Rhone 

Tablas Creek and Château Beaucastel: a Wine Society tasting telling the story of how a leading Rhône domaine fell in love with California

October 2, 2025October 2, 2025 jamiegoode

Jason Haas of Tablas Creek and Andrew Bayley (GM of Beaucastel’s UK operation) presented this really interesting tasting, telling the

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

September 28, 2025 jamiegoode
Champagne Salon and Delamotte: the 2015 Salon release, and a look at the current Delamotte range
Champagne Features Latest Regions TOP STORIES 

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

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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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