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Features Portugal Profiles 

Chocapalha: a leading winery from Portugal’s Lisboa wine region

August 9, 2020August 11, 2020 jamiegoode 7660 Views Lisboa

Website: https://chocapalha.pt/en/home_en/ Paulo Tavares de Silva had a career as a naval officer, but with his wife Alice nurtured a

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Food and wine Spain 

Restaurants: Sabor, London

August 6, 2020August 6, 2020 jamiegoode 6334 Views London, Restaurants

Back in the saddle, a post-lockdown restaurant experience. Last Tuesday I lunched at Sabor in Heddon Street, just off lower

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Highlights South Africa 

Highlights: Alheit Vineyards Fire By Night 2018

August 4, 2020October 9, 2020 Treve Ring 7291 Views Chenin Blanc, Old Vine Project, swartland

Chris Alheit is one of South Africa’s top winemakers and old vine rescuers, working closely with the Old Vine Project

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England Profiles 

The wines of Hidden Spring, Sussex, England

August 3, 2020 jamiegoode 6651 Views

Website: https://www.hiddenspring.co.uk/ In 2014 Dr David McNally and Chris Phipps bought a 23 acre campsite in Horam, East Sussex, and

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Features Germany 

German champions: the multiple faces of Riesling

August 3, 2020August 3, 2020 jamiegoode 6666 Views Riesling

This was a tasting of six Riesling wines from members of the VDP – a private German winery association founded

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Highlights Italy 

Highlights: Gaja Ca’Marcanda Promis 2017 Toscana, Italy

August 2, 2020November 14, 2020 jamiegoode 8885 Views Tuscany

Gaja Ca’Marcanda Promis 2017 Toscana, Italy14% alcohol. This is from Gaja’s Tuscan estate in the Maremma, which they bought in

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Latest South of France 

Château Cavalier: rosés from Provence

August 1, 2020 jamiegoode 8455 Views Provence, Rose

Website: https://www.chateau-cavalier.com/en/ This is a property owned by Castel at the foot of the Massif des Maures in the heart

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Burgundy Features Profiles 

Billaud-Simon, one of the top Chablis domaines, now owned by Faiveley

July 31, 2020July 31, 2020 jamiegoode 12432 Views Chablis, Chardonnay

I’m a great fan of the wines of Chablis, one of the few monocepage regions focusing on just Chardonnay from

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Highlights Latest Loire 

Highlights: François Saint-Lô Les Fontennelles 2016 Saumur, Loire

July 30, 2020December 3, 2020 jamiegoode 6934 Views Chenin Blanc, Natural wine

I visited François Saint-Lô on my Loire Valley trip with the Grape Witches a couple of years ago. He’s a

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Champagne Latest Videos 

Highlights: Champagne Veuve Clicquot La Grande Dame 2008

July 26, 2020July 26, 2020 jamiegoode 7163 Views

This is a remarkable wine. It has 92% Pinot Noir, but it has the freshness and focus of a really

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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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