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Bordeaux Features Regions 

Bordeaux: fine wines for drinking

March 4, 2021 jamiegoode 9047 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 7824 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 6511 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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Gérard Bertrand’s Virtual Organic French Wine Festival

February 28, 2021March 2, 2021 Treve Ring 8375 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 12088 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 7211 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 10101 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 6798 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 8401 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 14482 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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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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