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Highlights: Compagniesdrift Cabernet Sauvignon Merlot 2022 Stellenbosch

August 25, 2026 jamiegoode 546 Views

Website: https://www.compagniesdrift.com/ Compagniesdrift Cabernet Sauvignon Merlot 2022 Stellenbosch, South Africa13% alcohol. Compagniesdrift is a BEE project from Meerlust, and the

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Highlights: Franck Balthazar Cornas 2022 Northern Rhône, France

August 24, 2026August 24, 2026 jamiegoode 593 Views syrah

A beautiful low-intervention Cornas. It’s an appellation with just 110 hectares, and in the past people dismissed the wines as

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Spätburgunder: a deep dive into Germany’s Pinot Noir, with a tasting of 77 wines from top vineyard sites at the VDP tasting

August 24, 2026September 14, 2026 jamiegoode 2701 Views pinot noir

German wine has been having a good moment for the last decade, and this is one of the wine country

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Gallery: in the vineyards of the Ahr Valley, Germany

August 20, 2026August 20, 2026 jamiegoode 627 Views ahr

I arrived in the Ahr Valley this afternoon and took a walk around the vineyards. This is a Pinot Noir

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Exploring the Hunter Valley (3) Margan

August 19, 2026August 19, 2026 jamiegoode 709 Views hunter valley

Website: https://www.margan.com.au/ Margan is an important Hunter Valley producer making some very interesting wines, and championing newer varieties that show

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Exploring the Hunter Valley (2) judging the Hunter Valley Wine Show

August 19, 2026August 19, 2026 jamiegoode 674 Views hunter valley

Tell your friends that you’ve just been in the Hunter Valley judging 80 wines a day with nice people, they’ll

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Exploring the Hunter Valley, Australia’s oldest wine region (1) introduction

August 19, 2026 jamiegoode 922 Views hunter valley

It was almost 200 years ago, in 1828, when the Hunter Valley became a wine region. It’s the oldest in

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Highlights: Sandridge Barton Don’t Feed The Ponies Billy Light Red 2025 Devon, England

August 19, 2026August 19, 2026 jamiegoode 500 Views

Website: https://shop.sandridgebarton.com/products/dont-feed-the-ponies-billy-2025 Sandridge Barton Don’t Feed The Ponies Billy Light Red 2025 Devon, England10.6% alcohol. Pinot Noir, Pinot Precocé, Pinot

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Restaurants: Dear Sainte Éloise, Sydney, with three nice wines

August 15, 2026August 15, 2026 jamiegoode 581 Views Restaurants

Website: https://www.lovetillygroup.com/dear-sainte-eloise After an afternoon walking around Sydney, I popped into Dear Saint Éloise, which is a wine-focused casual restaurant

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Cas ‘Amaro, a growing wine tourism and winemaking project in several Portuguese regions

August 14, 2026August 14, 2026 jamiegoode 586 Views

Website: https://www.casamaro.pt/en/index.php Cas ‘Amaro is an emerging winemaking and wine tourism powerhouse. They began in 2016 with the acquisition of

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Going to the football? Like good wine? A tasting trip through Islington’s wine bars pairs well with tickets for a north London matchday

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Pfalz Riesling: tasting through some of the top examples at the VDP tasting 2026

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The Central Dozen, an important exercise in telling the contemporary story of Central Otago Pinot Noir through a curated selection of 12 bottles

September 12, 2026September 12, 2026 jamiegoode
Polish wine exploration: Winnica Moderna (updated with fresh notes, 2026)
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Polish wine exploration: Winnica Moderna (updated with fresh notes, 2026)

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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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