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Highlights Italy 

Highlights: Pietradolce Archineri Etna Rosso 2017 Sicily, Italy

March 25, 2021June 8, 2021 jamiegoode 6625 Views Sicily

Pietradolce was established in 2005 (first vintage 2009), and they have 11 hectares of vines planted in high altitude sites

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Highlights Italy 

Highlights: Querciabella Chianti Classico 2017 Tuscany, Italy

March 24, 2021June 8, 2021 jamiegoode 6717 Views chianti

This is Sangiovese from Greve, Radda and Gaiole, biodynamically farmed, made by Querciabella. The Greve vineyards are sandstone and sand

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Highlights Italy 

Highlights: La Stoppa Trebbiolo Rosso 2018 Vino Rosso, Italy

March 22, 2021June 8, 2021 jamiegoode 6914 Views Natural wine

How do you assess a wine like this Trebbiolo from La Stoppa? If you are a techno winemaker, you reject

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Highlights Spain 

Highlights: Bodega Lanzaga Corriente 2017 Rioja

March 22, 2021 jamiegoode 6801 Views Rioja

Telmo Rodriguez is well known for his wine brand that covers many of Spain’s top regions. He returned to Rioja

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Champagne Highlights 

Highlights: Champagne Bruno Paillard Première Cuvée NV

March 21, 2021 jamiegoode 4951 Views

This is the new non-vintage wine from Champagne Bruno Paillard. It’s an Extra Brut (below 6 g/litre dosage), and is

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Features Italy 

Giorgio Melandri’s Mutililiana wines: Sangiovese thrives in Modigliana, Romagna

March 19, 2021June 8, 2021 Lisse Garnett 8341 Views Sangiovese

Modigliana, in Italy’s Romagna region, is producing Sangiovese like you have never tasted before. The Mutiliana wines of Giorgio Melandri

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Chile Highlights 

Highlights: Calco Chardonnay 2018 Limarí, Chile

March 18, 2021March 18, 2021 jamiegoode 4886 Views Chardonnay

Calco Chardonnay 2018 Limarí, Chile13.5% alcohol. From De Martino in collaboration with Ben Henshaw and Alvaro Ribalta of Indigo Wines

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Features South of France 

Domaine Lafage: a Roussillon success story

March 17, 2021 jamiegoode 11544 Views Roussillon

Jean-Marc and Eliane Lafage have built their Roussillon domaine into one of the powerhouses of the region, expanding vineyard holdings

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England Highlights 

Highlights: Roebuck Estates Rosé de Noirs 2016 England

March 16, 2021June 8, 2021 jamiegoode 5936 Views Sparkling wine

I’ve written about Roebuck Estate’s wines before. They are a relatively new entrant to the UK wine scene, but they

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Latest South Africa 

Packwood: wines from Pletternberg Bay, South Africa

March 14, 2021 jamiegoode 6169 Views plettenberg bay

Packwood are based at the far east of Western Cape, on the Garden Route, in a small wine appellation called

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Galiza: a seminar focusing on the wines of Galicia, Spain
Features Latest Spain 

Galiza: a seminar focusing on the wines of Galicia, Spain

October 12, 2026October 12, 2026 jamiegoode

For the 2026 edition of Simplesmente Vinho the guest region was Galiza (Galicia) in Spain, and there were nine visiting

The Bothey, an interesting wine project from South Africa
Features Latest South Africa 

The Bothey, an interesting wine project from South Africa

October 12, 2026October 12, 2026 jamiegoode
Loosen Barry: where the Clare Valley meets the Mosel, a Riesling collaboration
Australia Features Latest 

Loosen Barry: where the Clare Valley meets the Mosel, a Riesling collaboration

October 11, 2026October 11, 2026 jamiegoode
All Good Things: tasting three examples from this new supermarket-targeted brand
Features Latest 

All Good Things: tasting three examples from this new supermarket-targeted brand

October 9, 2026October 9, 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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