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Features Latest Portugal 

Mouchão: lovely wines from this traditional Alentejo winery

August 1, 2025August 1, 2025 jamiegoode 1700 Views Alentejo

Website: https://mouchao.pt/en/ One of the most highly regarded Alentejo wineries, Mouchão has always been a bit different to its peers.

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California Features Latest 

Books: The New California by Elaine Chukan Brown

July 31, 2025 jamiegoode 1977 Views Books

Ever since I heard that Elaine Chukan Brown was writing a book on Californian Wine, I was waiting to see

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Chile Features Highlights Latest 

MAULE: SMALL-SCALE ETHICAL PRODUCERS KEEP RURAL COMMUNITIES ALIVE WHILST MAKING SOME OF THE MOST EXCITING WINES IN LATIN AMERICA 

July 29, 2025October 24, 2025 Lisse Garnett 6588 Views Organic Chile

Time to drink up, says Lisse Garnett.. The UK drinks more Chilean wine than anyone else. Market contractions challenge this

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Features New Zealand Wine Science 

Prospects for disease-resistant varieties in Marlborough and elsewhere: will we soon see Cloudy Bay Sauvignon made from a PIWI?

July 28, 2025February 12, 2026 jamiegoode 5075 Views

Jim White from Cloudy Bay presented at the 2025 Australian Wine Industry Technical Conference on the topic of disease-resistant grape

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Champagne Features France Wine Science 

French Bloom, a high-end alcohol-free sparkling wine that’s the most convincing product in this space yet

July 28, 2025February 12, 2026 jamiegoode 11455 Views

Website: https://uk.frenchbloom.com/ Non-alcoholic wine is currently a topic of intense interest in the wine industry. Many think that drinking habits

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Features Profiles Regions Spain 

The wines of Javi Revert, Valencia – a star of the ‘new Spain’ (updated with new notes July 2025)

July 28, 2025October 24, 2025 jamiegoode 10528 Views Valencia

Valencia is a region in eastern Spain not known for fine wine production, but there is one winegrower – Javi

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Australia Food and wine 

Restaurants: Pastel Wine Bar, Adelaide, Australia – superb food meets a good wine list in a nice setting

July 27, 2025February 12, 2026 jamiegoode 2526 Views Adelaide Hills, McLaren Vale, Restaurants

Website: https://pastel.bar/ On my first night in Australia, after a drink at East End Cellars, I headed over to Pastel

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Canada Features 

Therianthropy Wines: a rising garagiste collective from Niagara, Ontario (updated July 2025)

July 25, 2025July 26, 2025 Treve Ring 11603 Views cabernet franc, Niagara, Ontario

Therianthropy is the mythical process of shapeshifting, which is another way to view turning nature into wine. Therianthropy Wines is

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Features Portugal 

The Douro wines of Sogrape’s Casa de Ferreirinha, including Barca Velha, Portugal’s most famous table wine

July 25, 2025February 12, 2026 jamiegoode 2139 Views Douro

Sogrape is a big company with a wide range of wines, but also has some gems in its range, most

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Australia Features 

New releases by Adelaide Hills star BK Wines, some of Australia’s most interesting low intervention wines

July 24, 2025February 12, 2026 jamiegoode 2367 Views Adelaide Hills, Chardonnay, Gamay, pinot noir

Website: https://bkwines.com.au/ I caught up with Brendon Keys at East End Cellars in Adelaide to taste through some of his

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Moreish: elegant wines from Dão and Bairrada, Portugal (and one from Spain, too)
Features Latest Portugal 

Moreish: elegant wines from Dão and Bairrada, Portugal (and one from Spain, too)

May 2, 2026May 2, 2026 jamiegoode

This is the personal project of Luis Lopes, who makes the wines for Dão superstar Dominio de Açor. He began

Smart Swiss wines from Viticoltura Rohner-Erni
Features Latest Switzerland 

Smart Swiss wines from Viticoltura Rohner-Erni

May 2, 2026 jamiegoode
Nizio Naturals: brilliant low-intervention wines from Poland
Features Latest Poland 

Nizio Naturals: brilliant low-intervention wines from Poland

May 1, 2026May 1, 2026 jamiegoode
Visiting Kracher, one of the world’s great sweet wine producers, in Austria’s Burgenland region
Austria Features Latest Profiles 

Visiting Kracher, one of the world’s great sweet wine producers, in Austria’s Burgenland region

April 30, 2026April 30, 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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