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  • Video: with Filipa Pato in her old vineyards in Bairrada, Portugal, which she farms with the help of pigs
  • Highlights: Overgaauw Sylvaner 2025 Stellenbosch, South Africa
  • Rabasco: beautiful natural wines from Abruzzo, Italy
  • With these twelve wines, Juampi Michellini, Matias Riccitelli, Rafael Urreloja and Derek Mossman Knapp illustrate Argentina and Chile’s precocious ability to express the best in any variety 
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Appellation Marlborough Wine: the 2025 selection of Sauvignon Blanc

January 22, 2026October 10, 2026 jamiegoode 2446 Views Marlborough, Sauvignon Blanc

Website: https://www.appellationmarlboroughwine.co.nz/ Marlborough became famous because of Sauvignon Blanc, and it is the dominant grape variety planted in the region.

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North Canterbury, New Zealand (8) Greystone

January 21, 2026October 10, 2026 jamiegoode 4396 Views North Canterbury

Website: https://www.greystonewines.co.nz/ Greystone are extremely innovative in their approach. I visited with winemaker Dom Maxwell (who since this visit has

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Features New Zealand Regions 

The wines of Corofin, interpreting interesting Marlborough terroirs through the lens of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir – updated with 2023 releases

January 20, 2026October 10, 2026 jamiegoode 11983 Views Chardonnay, Marlborough, pinot noir

For me, Corofin is one of Marlborough’s (and New Zealand’s) most exciting wine projects. The people behind it are Mike

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Features New Zealand 

North Canterbury, New Zealand (7) Georges Road

January 19, 2026October 10, 2026 jamiegoode 1842 Views North Canterbury

Website: http://georgesroadwines.co.nz/ Kirk Bray was in wine class with Paul Pujol (now winegrower at Prophets Rock in Central Otago) at

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Features New Zealand 

North Canterbury, New Zealand (6) Domaine Williams Raillard et B

January 19, 2026October 10, 2026 jamiegoode 1580 Views North Canterbury

While I was in North Canterbury I visited a new producer who has yet to release any wines. Next door

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North Canterbury, New Zealand (5) Fernbank

January 19, 2026February 16, 2026 jamiegoode 2157 Views North Canterbury

Website: https://www.fernbank.wine/ Helen and Matt Barbour run a viticultural consultancy company (Barbour Vines) as well as some very well situated

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Beaujolais Highlights 

Highlights: Sandrine Henriot Régnié Lachat 2022 Beaujolais, France

January 18, 2026October 10, 2026 jamiegoode 1418 Views Natural wine

Sandrine Henriot purchased vines and established her own domaine in Régnié-Durette after several years working for fancy Bourgogne domaines. She

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California Features Latest 

Gallo, the world’s largest wine company, has three insanely large wineries in California

January 17, 2026October 10, 2026 jamiegoode 9830 Views

Gallo (they dropped the E&J bit in 2024) own the three largest wineries in the world. They don’t tend to

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Austria Highlights 

Highlights: Sommer Blaufränkisch 2020 Leithaberg, Burgenland, Austria

January 15, 2026October 10, 2026 jamiegoode 1347 Views Blaufrankisch, Burgenland

Website: https://weingut-sommer.at/en I’ve been impressed with the wines from Leo Sommer in the past: https://wineanorak.com/2024/11/28/sommer-beautiful-low-intervention-wines-from-austrias-leithaberg-region/ I had this last night

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Austria Highlights Profiles 

Judith Beck is making some impressive natural wines in Austria’s Burgenland

January 15, 2026October 10, 2026 jamiegoode 2222 Views Natural wine

Website: https://www.weingut-beck.at/ Judith Beck farms 15 hectares of vines in Gols, in the Burgenland. Farming has been biodynamic since 2007,

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Celebrating 25 years of Filipa Pato’s wines with an amazing lunch and tasting
Features Latest Portugal Regions TOP STORIES 

Celebrating 25 years of Filipa Pato’s wines with an amazing lunch and tasting

October 30, 2026October 30, 2026 jamiegoode

Flipa Pato, daughter of famous Bairrada winegrower Luis Pato, first started making her own wines 25 years ago, in 2001.

Rabasco: beautiful natural wines from Abruzzo, Italy
Features Italy Latest 

Rabasco: beautiful natural wines from Abruzzo, Italy

October 28, 2026October 28, 2026 jamiegoode
With these twelve wines, Juampi Michellini, Matias Riccitelli, Rafael Urreloja and Derek Mossman Knapp illustrate Argentina and Chile’s precocious ability to express the best in any variety 
Argentina Chile Features Latest 

With these twelve wines, Juampi Michellini, Matias Riccitelli, Rafael Urreloja and Derek Mossman Knapp illustrate Argentina and Chile’s precocious ability to express the best in any variety 

October 26, 2026October 26, 2026 Lisse Garnett
Three wines from a new producer in Oxfordshire (UK): Yew Tree Vineyard
England Features Latest 

Three wines from a new producer in Oxfordshire (UK): Yew Tree Vineyard

October 24, 2026October 24, 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.

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