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Highlights Rhone 

Highlights: Chapoutier Saint-Pierre Cornas 2019 Northern Rhône, France

July 19, 2022August 3, 2022 jamiegoode 570 Views cornas, syrah

A real treat to try this new Cornas lieu dit from Chapoutier. It’s brilliant. There’s some sternness and structure, but

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Japan Regions 

In Nagano, Japan: Le Milieu Winery

July 18, 2022August 3, 2022 jamiegoode 777 Views Nagano

Go Shioze and Sho Saito are the people behind Le Milieu winery in Nagano. Go had worked at Swiss Mura

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Profiles Regions South Africa 

Oldenburg, Banhoek, South Africa: Nic Van Aaarde is doing great work with this Stellenbosch producer

July 17, 2022August 3, 2022 jamiegoode 977 Views Stellenbosch

Website: https://oldenburgvineyards.com/ There’s a special place in Stellenbosch, and it goes under two variants of the same name. Banghoek and

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Features France 

Visiting Plaimont, a super-co-op that has changed the face of southwest France

July 17, 2022August 3, 2022 Lisse Garnett 2110 Views

Forty years ago Gascony produced some of the most unloved wines in Europe. Today, the region has Plaimont – a

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England Highlights 

Highlights: Westwell Wicken Foy NV England

July 16, 2022August 3, 2022 jamiegoode 498 Views Sparkling wine

This is a new traditional method sparkling wine from innovative low-intervention winegrower Westwell, based in Kent, England Westwell Wicken Foy

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Canada Features Profiles Regions 

In Niagara (4) Cloudsley Cellars

July 16, 2022July 16, 2022 jamiegoode 686 Views

Website: https://cloudsleycellars.com/ Adam Lowy worked for premium Toronto-based importer Lifford Wines for a couple of decades before setting out on

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Highlights Spain 

Highlights: Hidalgo Manzanilla La Gitana En Rama (Spring 2022 release)

July 14, 2022August 3, 2022 jamiegoode 616 Views sherry

This wine comes from Hidalgo’s famous El Cuadrado pago, which is the highest part of Balbaina Alta. It’s a really

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England Features 

Domaine Hugo and Offbeat Wines: naturally made in a Wiltshire winery, these are some of the UK’s most compelling wines

July 12, 2022August 3, 2022 Lisse Garnett 2107 Views Natural wine

Jamie Goode and Lisse Garnett meet two exceptional producers who together make some of the best wines on offer in

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Portugal Regions TOP STORIES 

Visiting António Madeira, a star producer in Portugal’s Dão region

July 11, 2022August 3, 2022 jamiegoode 1209 Views Dao

António Madeira is one of the new stars of Portugal’s Dão wine region, but for the kind actions of a

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Highlights Latest Portugal 

Highlights: Howard’s Folly Freshco? 2020 Alentejo, Portugal

July 10, 2022 jamiegoode 424 Views Alentejo

This is a bright red from Portalegre (the cooler, higher-altitude bit of the Alentejo) with vineyards in the granite foothills

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The wines of David & Nadia, Swartland, South Africa
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The wines of David & Nadia, Swartland, South Africa

August 16, 2022August 16, 2022 jamiegoode

Website: https://davidnadia.com/ David and Nadia Sadie studied together and then got married in 2009. They both began working for different

Penn Croft and Itasca Wines: an interesting Hampshire contract winery (Thorrington Mill, Wraxhall, Missing Gate) also making their own wines
England Features Profiles Regions 

Penn Croft and Itasca Wines: an interesting Hampshire contract winery (Thorrington Mill, Wraxhall, Missing Gate) also making their own wines

August 14, 2022August 16, 2022 jamiegoode
Keep Wines: small batch Californian elegance
California Features Latest Regions 

Keep Wines: small batch Californian elegance

August 12, 2022August 14, 2022 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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