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England Profiles Regions 

Busi-Jacobsohn, an exciting new English sparkling wine producer

June 22, 2021July 15, 2021 jamiegoode 7007 Views

Website: https://www.busijacobsohn.com/ Based in Eridge, near Tunbridge Wells, a new sparkling wine producer has sprung up. Busi-Jacobsohn. Susanna Busi Jacobsohn

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California Highlights 

Highlights: Charbono both ways from Shypoke Winery in Calistoga, Napa

June 19, 2021 jamiegoode 7428 Views

There are just 75 acres of Charbono left on the planet, say Shypoke Winery. This isn’t strictly true, if you

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Argentina California Chile Features 

País, Mission, Criolla Chica: the Beaujolais of the Americas?

June 18, 2021August 1, 2021 Lisse Garnett 13481 Views Mission, Pais

Much like the Gamay of Beaujolais, twenty years ago País was seen as fit for only commonplace, lowly table wine.

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Austria Features 

Grüner Veltliner study, and a remarkable story about the discovery of its parentage

June 17, 2021February 5, 2024 jamiegoode 7864 Views gruner veltliner

Grüner Veltliner is Austria’s most important grape variety, and it’s one that is growing in popularity elsewhere. With almost 14

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Features South Africa 

The different faces of South African Chenin Blanc

June 15, 2021June 15, 2021 jamiegoode 15640 Views Chenin Blanc

Of all the grape varieties grown in the Cape, it’s Chenin Blanc that perhaps has the strongest claim to be

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Japan Profiles 

In Nagano, Japan: Domaine Sourire

June 15, 2021 jamiegoode 4817 Views Nagano

This is a small winery established in June 2019 in Shiojiri City, and it is also a bakery. It was

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Champagne Highlights 

Highlights: Champagne Dom Pérignon 2012 and 2003 P2

June 14, 2021August 1, 2021 jamiegoode 10480 Views

The 2012 vintage of Dom Pérignon is released, and for me this is one of the best that I’ve tried.

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Chile Profiles Regions 

Viña González Bastías, Maule Valley, Chile: exciting traditional wines from extremely old vines

June 13, 2021June 13, 2021 jamiegoode 6880 Views

Jose Luís Bastías and Daniela Lorenzo are custodians of a remarkable four-hectare vineyard in Chile’s Maule Valley planted in the

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Features Italy TOP STORIES 

Chianti Classico: 46 top wines tasted and rated

June 12, 2021January 11, 2024 jamiegoode 14441 Views chianti

Held in May 2021 in London (one of six global Chianti Classico events, including Chicago, New York, Monaco, Firenze and

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England Highlights 

Highlights: Louis Pommery Brut NV England

June 10, 2021August 1, 2021 jamiegoode 6436 Views Sparkling wine

Champagne Pommery made the news in 2014 when they decided to start an operation in Hampshire, England, in partnership with

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Canada’s Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys (13) Pamplemousse Jus
Canada Features Latest 

Canada’s Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys (13) Pamplemousse Jus

August 31, 2026 jamiegoode

Website: https://www.pamplemoussejus.ca/ We need more wineries like this! Pamplemousse Jus is a small winery based on a farm in the

Restaurants: Singburi, amazing Thai food in Shoreditch, London, and a short but great wine list
Features Food and wine Latest 

Restaurants: Singburi, amazing Thai food in Shoreditch, London, and a short but great wine list

August 29, 2026August 29, 2026 jamiegoode
Canada’s Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys (12) Haywire and Garnet Valley Ranch
Canada Features Latest 

Canada’s Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys (12) Haywire and Garnet Valley Ranch

August 27, 2026August 27, 2026 jamiegoode
Canada’s Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys (11) Solvero in Garnet Valley
Canada Features Highlights 

Canada’s Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys (11) Solvero in Garnet Valley

August 27, 2026 jamiegoode

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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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