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Bordeaux Features Regions 

Bordeaux: fine wines for drinking

March 4, 2021 jamiegoode 7755 Views

Jamie Goode tastes through nine red Bordeaux wines ‘for drinking’: these are sub-£30 bottles that UK wine merchant Justerini &

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France Highlights 

Highlights: Clos des Rocs, Mâconnais, Bourgogne, France

March 2, 2021June 8, 2021 Treve Ring 6748 Views organic

Located in the south of the Mâconnais, Fuissé’s Saint-Philibert estate belonged to a family of winegrowers for seven generations before

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Australia Highlights 

Highlights: Giant Steps Sexton Vineyard Chardonnay 2019 Yarra Valley, Australia

March 2, 2021 jamiegoode 5394 Views Chardonnay

Giant Steps is a Yarra Valley winery established by entrepreneur Phil Sexton back in 1997 (here’s a review of a

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Features France Profiles 

Gérard Bertrand’s Virtual Organic French Wine Festival

February 28, 2021March 2, 2021 Treve Ring 6859 Views organic

Gérard Bertrand held a virtual Organic French Wine Festival last week, with invited distributors, media, retailers, and sommeliers tasting through a

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Chile Features Latest Profiles 

Longaví’s ‘Glup’: superb wines from the south of Chile

February 27, 2021 jamiegoode 10293 Views

Longaví is a collaboration between David Nieuwoudt from South Africa and Julio Bouchon of Chile. The wines come from the

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England Profiles 

Langham Wine Estate: sparkling wines from Dorset, England

February 25, 2021June 8, 2021 jamiegoode 5974 Views

Langham Wine Estate are based in Dorset, part of the Langham Agricultural Enterprise which covers over 1000 hectares. A while

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Highlights South Africa 

Highlights: Nero, South Africa’s first Nero d’Avola

February 24, 2021February 24, 2021 jamiegoode 9097 Views

Bosman Family Vineyards have just launched South Africa’s first Nero d’Avola. The wine is a collaboration with actor/filmmaker Thapelo Mokoena,

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Features Portugal 

The wines of Júlio Bastos/Dona Maria, from Portugal’s Alentejo

February 22, 2021February 22, 2021 jamiegoode 7937 Views Alentejo

Júlio Bastos is one of the leading winemakers in Portugal’s Alentejo region, and his family property, located near Estremoz, is

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Chile Features Italy 

An ode to Carménère, Grande Vidure, Merlot Peumo…

February 19, 2021June 8, 2021 Lisse Garnett 5741 Views carmenere

Lisse Garnett reports on this Coelocanth of grape varieties. Once a major Bordeaux variety, Carménère was wiped out in the

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gonzalez byass las palmas sherries
Features Regions Spain 

Gonzalez Byass: 10 years of the Las Palmas Sherries

February 18, 2021February 18, 2021 jamiegoode 7248 Views sherry

Back in 2011, Gonzalez Byass had a great idea. Winemaker Antonio Flores had been reading an old book about sherry,

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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
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
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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