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Highlights: Danbury Ridge Chardonnay 2022 at Le Vignoble, Plymouth

April 20, 2025April 20, 2025 jamiegoode 845 Views

After a nice walk along the Cornish coast from Plymouth (there’s a ferry going to Mount Edgecumbe in Cornwall), we

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Krone Assmannshausen, Rheingau: some of Germany’s best Spätburgunders

April 19, 2025April 19, 2025 jamiegoode 1075 Views pinot noir, Rheingau

Website: www.weingut-krone.de    Weingut Krone Assmannshausen is a small Pinot-only winery made from a 3.7 hectare vineyard that used to

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Polish wine exploration: Winnica Moderna

April 17, 2025 jamiegoode 1629 Views

Website: https://www.winnicamoderna.pl/ Winnica Moderna is based in Poland’s Lower Silesian region, which is one of the warmest parts of the

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Umathum: serious wines from Austria’s Burgenland region

April 15, 2025 jamiegoode 1789 Views Burgenland

Website: https://www.umathum.at/en/ Umathum is based in the Burgenland region of Austria. They are located on the east side of Lake

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Discovering the Mâconnais (10) Domaine du Bicheron

April 15, 2025August 11, 2025 jamiegoode 1017 Views Maconnais

Website: https://www.domainedubicheron.com/en/ Bicheron is quite a big producer based in the in the Mâconnais, making 170 000 bottles under their

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Exploring Bulgarian Wine (8) Villa Melnik

April 14, 2025 jamiegoode 1163 Views

Villa Melnik is a family-owned winery in Harsovo, in southwest Bulgaria, in the Struma River Valley of the Thracian Valley.

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Exploring Bulgarian Wine (7) Katarzyna Wine

April 14, 2025May 5, 2025 jamiegoode 1898 Views

I tried the wines of Katarzyna at their wine shop and bar in Sofia. The winery itself is located in

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The wines of Gian Luca Colombo, Piemonte, Italy

April 14, 2025 jamiegoode 1398 Views Nebbiolo, Piemonte

Website: https://gianlucacolombovini.it/en/ Gian Luca Colombo is well known as a leading consultant in Piemonte, but he also has his own

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Highlights: Sandridge Barton Sharpham Figgie Daniels 2022

April 13, 2025 jamiegoode 772 Views

Website: https://sandridgebarton.com/ Sharpham Figgie Daniel Madeleine Angevine & Pinot Blanc Col Fondo 2022 Devon, England12% alcohol. What used to be

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Highlights: Domaine Bruno Sorg Pinot Noir 2022 Alsace

April 12, 2025 jamiegoode 1002 Views pinot noir

Website: https://www.domaine-bruno-sorg.com/ Domaine Bruno Sorg Pinot Noir 2023 Alsace, France12.5% alcohol . Served chilled sitting outside this is just perfect

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A quick guide to New Zealand wine
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A quick guide to New Zealand wine

October 5, 2025October 5, 2025 jamiegoode

New Zealand is a relative newcomer in the roll call of significant wine-producing countries. It wasn’t until the mid-1980s that

Tablas Creek and Château Beaucastel: a Wine Society tasting telling the story of how a leading Rhône domaine fell in love with California
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Tablas Creek and Château Beaucastel: a Wine Society tasting telling the story of how a leading Rhône domaine fell in love with California

October 2, 2025October 2, 2025 jamiegoode
Tasting some wines from Bolivia: Jardín Oculto and Yokich
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Tasting some wines from Bolivia: Jardín Oculto and Yokich

September 28, 2025 jamiegoode
Champagne Salon and Delamotte: the 2015 Salon release, and a look at the current Delamotte range
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Champagne Salon and Delamotte: the 2015 Salon release, and a look at the current Delamotte range

September 26, 2025September 27, 2025 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.

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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