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

April 25, 2021April 25, 2021 jamiegoode 5970 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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Rathfinny Blanc de Blancs
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Highlights: Rathfinny Blanc de Blancs Brut 2017 Sussex, England

April 24, 2021April 26, 2021 jamiegoode 3930 Views Chardonnay, Sparkling wine

Rathfinny are a significant new-ish entry into the English sparkling wine scene, with their vines first going into the ground

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Highlights: Jones On the QT Bin 27 Orange Macabeu 2020 France

April 23, 2021 jamiegoode 4464 Views

Jones On the QT Bin 27 Orange Macabeu 2020 FranceJust 450 bottles of this wine made. It’s from a 60

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Highlights Spain 

Highlights: Cas a Balaguer Salicornio Moscatel 2020 Alicante, Spain

April 22, 2021August 1, 2021 jamiegoode 5437 Views Natural wine

Casa Balaguer-Vinessens is the winery responsible for this expressive skin-ferment Moscatel from Alicante in the south of Spain. It formed

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Loire Regions 

Loire red review: 13 wines from Saint Nicolas de Bourgeuil

April 18, 2021 jamiegoode 8764 Views cabernet franc

In the third and final write-up of my recent deep dive into the red wines of the Loire, I’m focusing

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Argentina Features 

Malbec study: four top wines from Argentina

April 17, 2021 jamiegoode 6580 Views Malbec

Malbec is such an interesting grape variety. It delivers across a range of climates: you can find it in the

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Argentina Highlights Latest 

Escala Humana Livverá Bonarda 2018 Uco Valley, Mendoza, Argentina

April 15, 2021 jamiegoode 4415 Views bonarda

Escala Humana is the project of Germán Masera, who makes wine for Matías Michelini as his day job. This Bonarda

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Features Loire Regions 

Loire red review: 9 wines from Chinon

April 14, 2021April 18, 2021 jamiegoode 15350 Views cabernet franc, Chinon

This is the third part of my series on the red wines of the Loire. These wines – all from

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Chile Highlights 

Highlights: Viña Leyda Syrah Reserva 2019 Leyda, Chile

April 13, 2021August 1, 2021 jamiegoode 5704 Views syrah

I visited Viña Leyda back in 2010, and at the time I described them as one of Chile’s most exciting

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Features Loire Regions 

Red wines from the Loire – a spotlight on an exciting category

April 12, 2021April 18, 2021 jamiegoode 11057 Views

I’ve recently been tasting through red wines from the Loire, and I’ve been really excited by what I found. In

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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
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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

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.

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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