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Australia Highlights 

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

March 2, 2021 jamiegoode 6420 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 8226 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 11942 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 7115 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 10023 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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Chile Features Italy 

An ode to Carménère, Grande Vidure, Merlot Peumo…

February 19, 2021June 8, 2021 Lisse Garnett 6655 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 8313 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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Features Hungary Regions 

Furmint study: investigating the dry wines from Hungary’s famous white grape

February 16, 2021February 17, 2021 jamiegoode 14258 Views Furmint, tokaji

Hungary used to be the third biggest wine producing country in the world, says Caroline Gilby who was leading this

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Spain Videos 

Video: with Ramiro Ibáñez of Bodega Cota 45 (UBE, Pangorda, Agostado)

February 14, 2021February 14, 2021 jamiegoode 7384 Views sherry

There is a revolution afoot in the Marco de Jerez (the Sherry Triangle that includes Jerez, El Puerto and Sanlúcar).

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Champagne Highlights 

Highlights: Champagne De Saint Gall Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru 2008

February 12, 2021February 17, 2021 jamiegoode 7015 Views

Champagne De Saint Gall Orpale Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru 2008 France12.5% alcohol. De Saint-Gall are a growers cooperative and

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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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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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