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  • Rabasco: beautiful natural wines from Abruzzo, Italy
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Features New Zealand Wine Science 

Prospects for disease-resistant varieties in Marlborough and elsewhere: will we soon see Cloudy Bay Sauvignon made from a PIWI?

July 28, 2025February 12, 2026 jamiegoode 5754 Views

Jim White from Cloudy Bay presented at the 2025 Australian Wine Industry Technical Conference on the topic of disease-resistant grape

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Champagne Features France Wine Science 

French Bloom, a high-end alcohol-free sparkling wine that’s the most convincing product in this space yet

July 28, 2025February 12, 2026 jamiegoode 16962 Views

Website: https://uk.frenchbloom.com/ Non-alcoholic wine is currently a topic of intense interest in the wine industry. Many think that drinking habits

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Features Profiles Regions Spain 

The wines of Javi Revert, Valencia – a star of the ‘new Spain’ (updated with new notes July 2025)

July 28, 2025October 24, 2025 jamiegoode 11701 Views Valencia

Valencia is a region in eastern Spain not known for fine wine production, but there is one winegrower – Javi

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Australia Food and wine 

Restaurants: Pastel Wine Bar, Adelaide, Australia – superb food meets a good wine list in a nice setting

July 27, 2025February 12, 2026 jamiegoode 3590 Views Adelaide Hills, McLaren Vale, Restaurants

Website: https://pastel.bar/ On my first night in Australia, after a drink at East End Cellars, I headed over to Pastel

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Canada Features 

Therianthropy Wines: a rising garagiste collective from Niagara, Ontario (updated July 2025)

July 25, 2025July 26, 2025 Treve Ring 12580 Views cabernet franc, Niagara, Ontario

Therianthropy is the mythical process of shapeshifting, which is another way to view turning nature into wine. Therianthropy Wines is

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Features Portugal 

The Douro wines of Sogrape’s Casa de Ferreirinha, including Barca Velha, Portugal’s most famous table wine

July 25, 2025February 12, 2026 jamiegoode 2818 Views Douro

Sogrape is a big company with a wide range of wines, but also has some gems in its range, most

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Australia Features 

New releases by Adelaide Hills star BK Wines, some of Australia’s most interesting low intervention wines

July 24, 2025February 12, 2026 jamiegoode 3197 Views Adelaide Hills, Chardonnay, Gamay, pinot noir

Website: https://bkwines.com.au/ I caught up with Brendon Keys at East End Cellars in Adelaide to taste through some of his

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Features Portugal 

Wine & Soul: Pintas and Manoella from Portugal’s Douro (updated with new notes, July 2025)

July 24, 2025February 12, 2026 jamiegoode 6185 Views Douro

Website: https://wineandsoul.com/ Jorge Borges and Sandra Tavares have built something special with Wine & Soul. I first bumped into them

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Features Italy 

The wines of Masiero, a biodynamic producer in Italy’s Veneto

July 21, 2025February 12, 2026 jamiegoode 2034 Views veneto

Website: https://www.verdugo.it/en/homepage-2/ Franco and Francesca Masiero founded this winery back in 1996, and they farm biodynamically. Their daughter Giulia Masiero

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Features Portugal 

Justino’s Projects, Madeira, Portugal

July 21, 2025July 2, 2026 jamiegoode 2356 Views Madeira

This was a really interesting chance to try some special Project wines from Madeira producer Justino’s. The wines were tasted

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