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Bordeaux 2022: tasting the wines from this much-hyped vintage now they are in bottle

November 7, 2024November 7, 2024 jamiegoode 11573 Views

Each year I look forward to tasting the most recently bottled vintage of Bordeaux. These wines will have been shown

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Highlights Lebanon 

Highlights: Château Musar 2004 Bekaa Valley, Lebanon

November 6, 2024April 25, 2025 jamiegoode 1531 Views

Website: https://chateaumusar.com/ Musar is the most famous name in Lebanese wine. I remember buying this distinctive wine when I first

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Soil Therapy: a new star making distinctive terroir-focused wines from Alsace

November 5, 2024April 25, 2025 jamiegoode 3517 Views

Website: https://www.facebook.com/soiltherapywine/ Thomas Larmoyer was supposed to be in town to present his wines but his passport had expired. But

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Highlights Portugal 

Highlights: Cartuxa Tinto Colheita 2020 Alentejo, Portugal

November 4, 2024April 25, 2025 jamiegoode 1439 Views Alentejo

Website: https://www.cartuxa.pt/en/ I had this wine one evening last week when I was lecturing at the university in Vila Real.

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California Features 

In the Russian River Valley, Sonoma, California (10) Kanzler Vineyards

October 31, 2024April 25, 2025 jamiegoode 1811 Views Russian River Valley, Sonoma

Website: https://kanzlervineyards.com/ Kanzler is a relatively new boutique winery in the Sebastopol Hills of the Russian River Valley, run by

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Video: in the vineyards of the Mâconnais, Bourgogne, France

October 31, 2024April 25, 2025 jamiegoode 2943 Views

In July 2024 I visited the Mâconnais wine region in the south of Bourgogne (Burgundy), France. It’s an underrated region

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Champagne Features TOP STORIES 

Bowled over by the single origin 2015 wines from Champagne Philipponnat

October 29, 2024April 25, 2025 jamiegoode 2062 Views

Website: https://www.philipponnat.com/ Over lunch at the excellent Clove Club, I caught up with Charles Philipponnat and a small band of

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Features Portugal 

The wines of Sidónio de Sousa, Bairrada

October 28, 2024April 25, 2025 jamiegoode 2128 Views Baga, Bairrada

Bairrada is one of Portugal’s most interesting wine regions, specialising in reds from Baga, but also some really good sparkling

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Features Moldova 

The wines of Te Wā, Moldova

October 28, 2024April 25, 2025 jamiegoode 1591 Views

Website: https://tewawines.co/ Moldova meets New Zealand! I first came across the wines of Te Wā when I tasted through a

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California Features TOP STORIES 

In Russian River Valley, Sonoma, California (9) Joseph Swan with Rod Berglund

October 23, 2024April 25, 2025 jamiegoode 2247 Views Russian River Valley, Sonoma

Website: https://www.swanwinery.com/ Rod Berglund is one of the most respected winemakers in the Russian River Valley, and for the last

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Visiting Antiyal, with Alvaro Espinoza, the biodynamic pioneer of Chile

November 8, 2025 jamiegoode

Website: https://antiyal.com/ Alvaro Espinoza and his wife Marina had just got back from Costa Rica when I met them at

In Chile, day 1, tasting interesting wines with good folk on a Sunday afternoon
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In Chile, day 1, tasting interesting wines with good folk on a Sunday afternoon

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Book review: The Science of Fermentation
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Book review: The Science of Fermentation

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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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