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Highlights Italy 

Highlights: GB Burlotto Barolo Monvigliero 2018 Piemonte, Italy

March 20, 2025September 29, 2025 jamiegoode 2032 Views Piemonte

This is a beautiful Barolo, that I had with some good wine friends at Manteca, off the list. It was

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Visiting Tedeschi, a leading wine producer in the Veneto, to do a deep dive and explore their scientific study that proves terroir

March 18, 2025September 29, 2025 jamiegoode 3095 Views veneto

Website: https://www.tedeschiwines.com/en/ The current Tedeschi style developed in the 1960s. ‘Or father [Lorenzo Tedeschi] started to focus more on quality

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Highlights Languedoc 

Highlights: Gérard Bertrand Villa Soleilla 2021, taking orange wine to new heights

March 17, 2025September 29, 2025 jamiegoode 2187 Views orange wine

Gérard Bertrand Villa Soleilla 2021 France14% alcohol. Villa Soleilla is probably the world’s most expensive orange wine. It’s made from

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California Features Regions 

Paso Robles: a Californian wine region on the up

March 16, 2025September 29, 2025 jamiegoode 4551 Views Paso Robles

The basis of this article is a seminar presented last week in London by Christopher Taranto, who is director of

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China Videos 

Video: Wynn Signature Chinese Wine Awards 2025

March 16, 2025 jamiegoode 2930 Views

Jamie Goode travels to Macau in China to take part as a judge in the Wynn Signature Chinese Wine Awards

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Beaujolais Features 

Jean-Paul et Charly Thévenet, natural wine stars in Beaujolais

March 15, 2025September 29, 2025 jamiegoode 2537 Views Gamay

Jean-Paul Thévenet was one of the pioneering band of naturally inclined Beaujolais producers (the gang of four, or sometimes five

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California Features Highlights Regions 

Fifty years of Lytton Springs, the famous Zinfandel-based wine from star California producer Ridge

March 12, 2025 jamiegoode 3150 Views

Website: https://www.ridgewine.com/ The current release of Lytton Springs, the 2022, celebrates 50 years since this single-vineyard wine was first launched

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Features Spain 

The wines of Numanthia, from Spain’s Toro wine region: how they’ve tried to shift from the Parker-style to something more expressive of place

March 11, 2025September 29, 2025 jamiegoode 3370 Views Toro

Website: https://www.numanthia.com/en-ww Numanthia hit gold with the release of their 2004 Termanthia, which was among a group of five wines

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England Features 

Whitewolfe Estates: an exciting new Chardonnay-based project in Kent, England

March 11, 2025September 29, 2025 jamiegoode 2257 Views Chardonnay

Website: https://whitewolfe-estates.co.uk/ Whitewolfe Estates is a still Chardonnay project founded in 2019 by Clare Whitehead and Luke Wolfe, and the

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Canada Features 

The wines of 40 Knots, Vancouver Island, Canada

March 10, 2025September 29, 2025 jamiegoode 2762 Views Vancouver Island

Website: https://www.40knotswinery.com Vancouver Island is one of Canada’s lesser known wine regions, but it is gaining traction. It hit the

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Bordeaux 2025 wines en primeur
Bordeaux Features Latest Regions 

A quick appraisal of the 2025 vintage in Bordeaux

June 3, 2026 jamiegoode

I didn’t get to do primeurs in Bordeaux this spring. In fact I never do primeurs in Bordeaux because it’s

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Jean Baptiste Hardy, making beautiful wines in Muscadet

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Exploring Vinho Verde: visiting star producer Anselmo Mendes

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Current releases from Dão legend Antonio Madeira

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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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