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Australia Features Latest 

Yarra Valley (2) Oakridge

October 25, 2025December 15, 2025 jamiegoode 2562 Views Yarra Valley

Website: https://oakridgewines.com.au/ Oakridge has been through quite a few changes over the last 47 years, since its first vineyard was

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Australia Features Latest 

Yarra Valley (4) Jayden Ong Wines

October 25, 2025December 15, 2025 jamiegoode 2218 Views Yarra Valley

Website: https://jaydenong.com/ ‘I don’t like following rules,’ says Jayden Ong (pictured above) as I meet him in his winery and

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Yarra Valley: exploring this important Australian wine region

October 25, 2025December 15, 2025 jamiegoode 2304 Views Yarra Valley

The Yarra Valley was for a long time the land of the Wurundjeri people, and the history of human occupation

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Features Hungary Latest 

Hungarian wines at Georgie’s Ruin Bar

October 24, 2025 jamiegoode 1271 Views

Ruin Bars are a special feature of Budapest nightlife. They started up in the early 2000s as impromptu bars in

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Features Japan Latest 

Goode’s Crib Sheets: No 1. Japanese wineries

October 24, 2025January 5, 2026 jamiegoode 1132 Views

This is the first of my crib sheets, and it was prompted by South African winegrower Mick Craven asking me

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Features Food and wine Greece Latest TOP STORIES 

Sifnos: a gastronomic journey through the coolest Greek island that you probably haven’t heard of

October 22, 2025November 16, 2025 jamiegoode 3888 Views Restaurants

In his book The Greek House: the story of a painter’s love affair with the island of Sifnos, Christian Brechneff

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Features Food and wine Greece Latest Regions 

Sifnos, the gastronomic Greek island (3): lunch at Omega 3 and Loggia wine bar in Kastro

October 22, 2025August 1, 2026 jamiegoode 9168 Views Restaurants

Day two began with an early morning swim, then we headed off to Platis (sometimes ‘Ptays’) Giallos, where we had

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Features Food and wine Greece Latest 

Sifnos, the gastronomic Greek island (2) Cheronissos, the journey begins, with lunch at Fish Tavern Fyssas

October 22, 2025November 17, 2025 jamiegoode 2280 Views Restaurants

Sifnos is a gem. In an age of over-tourism, here’s an island that still feels untouched, although I suspect anyone

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making wine in talha in the alentejo
Latest Portugal Videos 

Video: the traditional talha winemaking at José de Sousa in the Alentejo, wine without electricity made in time-honoured fashion

October 21, 2025 jamiegoode 3271 Views Alentejo, Amphora

Yesterday one of the wines I included in my Alentejo tasting at an event in Kew Gardens was the talha

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Features Latest Portugal 

Alentejo: a study in eight wines, from a region focused on sustainability

October 20, 2025October 20, 2025 jamiegoode 1598 Views Alentejo

Website: https://sustentabilidade.vinhosdoalentejo.pt/en/wines-of-alentejo-sustainability-programme The Alentejo is an important wine region in southern Portugal, with 23 000 hectares of vines, spread over

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Eight wines under £10 that offer amazing value, from The Wine Society
Features Latest 

Eight wines under £10 that offer amazing value, from The Wine Society

October 8, 2026October 8, 2026 jamiegoode

It’s getting very hard to find wines that retail under £10 in the UK and which still have any character,

Visiting Montes, a major Chilean winery who are making the switch to regenerative viticulture
Chile Features Latest Regions Wine Science 

Visiting Montes, a major Chilean winery who are making the switch to regenerative viticulture

October 7, 2026October 7, 2026 jamiegoode
Arnaldo Rivera, a top tier of wines from the overperforming Terre del Barolo cooperative
Features Italy Latest 

Arnaldo Rivera, a top tier of wines from the overperforming Terre del Barolo cooperative

October 6, 2026October 6, 2026 jamiegoode
A tasting of 48 top artisan Champagnes from Berry Bros & Rudd
Champagne Features Latest 

A tasting of 48 top artisan Champagnes from Berry Bros & Rudd

October 5, 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.

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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