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Ed Carr and House of Arras, exciting sparkling wines from Tasmania

October 18, 2024April 25, 2025 jamiegoode 2015 Views Sparkling wine, tasmania

Website: https://houseofarras.com.au/ The sparkling wine conversation has been dominated by Champagne for so long, but now this is changing. Other

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Champagne Highlights 

Highlights: Champagne Collard-Picard Perpetuelle 12 Années NV

October 17, 2024April 25, 2025 jamiegoode 1425 Views

Website: https://www.champagnecollardpicard.fr/ Champagne Collard-Picard Perpetuelle 12 Années NV FranceThis is a really lovely wine, and it’s also quite a technical

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Features Oregon TOP STORIES 

New releases (2022) from Nicolas-Jay, now one of Oregon’s very best wineries

October 17, 2024April 25, 2025 jamiegoode 13466 Views Chardonnay, pinot noir

Jamie Goode tastes latest releases from Jay Boberg and Jean-Nicolas Meo of Nicolas-Jay, a winery who has, in a very

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Australia Highlights 

Highlights: Jansz Tasmania Premium Cuvée NV

October 16, 2024April 25, 2025 jamiegoode 1396 Views Sparkling wine

I remember when I first started out in wine buying quite a bit of Aussie fizz – Seppelts Great Western

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Austria Features 

Electric Styria: a tasting and discussion about this exciting wine region

October 15, 2024April 25, 2025 jamiegoode 2656 Views

Websites: https://www.wachstumkoenig.at/ *** https://www.neumeister.cc/en/ *** https://www.vinogross.com/ One of the exciting wine stories in recent years is the emergence of a

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California Videos 

Video: Martinelli’s Jackass vineyard, planted before 1889, and one of California’s oldest

October 14, 2024October 17, 2024 jamiegoode 2546 Views

This short film was taken in July when I visited the Jackass vineyard and Jackass Hill vineyard (right next door)

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California Features Regions 

Russian River Valley, Sonoma, California (8) De Loach Vineyards

October 12, 2024April 25, 2025 jamiegoode 2246 Views Sonoma

Website: https://deloachvineyards.com/ Originally started in 1975 by Cecil De Loach, De Loach was one of the first post-prohibition wineries in

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Features Food and wine France 

Exploring the Basque coast: Biarritz, San Sebastian, Guéthary and Saint Jean de Luz

October 12, 2024October 12, 2024 jamiegoode 3969 Views

I recently spent a weekend on the Basque coast, flying in to Biarritz and staying the night. The following day

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California Features Highlights 

Russian River Valley, Sonoma, California (7) Martinelli

October 10, 2024November 4, 2024 jamiegoode 2074 Views pinot noir, Sonoma, Zinfandel

Website: https://martinelliwinery.com/ Martinelli is one of the classic traditional wineries of the Russian River Valley. I visited with Julianna Martinelli,

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Alsace Highlights 

Highlights: Soil Therapy Dorfschatz Gewurztraminer Sec 2021 Alsace

October 10, 2024March 29, 2025 jamiegoode 1197 Views

Soil Therapy Dorfschatz Gewurztraminer Sec 2021 Alsace12.5% alcohol. This is from Thomas Larmoyer and Merdey Tek, who established their micronegociant

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Bonhams is auctioning off the cellar of Locanda Locatelli, and a few of us get to try some of the gems over lunch
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Bonhams is auctioning off the cellar of Locanda Locatelli, and a few of us get to try some of the gems over lunch

October 6, 2025October 6, 2025 jamiegoode

Back in January 2025 well known Italian chef Giorgio Locatelli closed the doors on his London restaurant Locanda Locatelli rather

A quick guide to New Zealand wine
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A quick guide to New Zealand wine

October 5, 2025October 6, 2025 jamiegoode
Tablas Creek and Château Beaucastel: a Wine Society tasting telling the story of how a leading Rhône domaine fell in love with California
California Features Latest Rhone 

Tablas Creek and Château Beaucastel: a Wine Society tasting telling the story of how a leading Rhône domaine fell in love with California

October 2, 2025October 2, 2025 jamiegoode
Tasting some wines from Bolivia: Jardín Oculto and Yokich
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Tasting some wines from Bolivia: Jardín Oculto and Yokich

September 28, 2025 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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