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Highlights Latest New Zealand 

Highlights: Prophet’s Rock Home Vineyard Pinot Noir 2021 Central Otago, New Zealand

March 26, 2024 jamiegoode 4199 Views pinot noir

Website: https://www.prophetsrock.co.nz/ Prophet’s Rock Home Vineyard Pinot Noir 2021 Central Otago, New Zealand13.5% alcohol. Since 2005, Paul Pujol has been

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England Features 

The debut releases from Walgate & Co, some of England’s most interesting still wines

March 24, 2024May 21, 2024 jamiegoode 7329 Views

Website: https://walgate.eco/ This was a chance to taste the debut release from Ben Walgate’s new venture, post leaving Tillingham. ‘In

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Etna, Sicily: Torre Mora

March 23, 2024March 23, 2024 jamiegoode 2997 Views etna, Sicily

One of the estates owned by Piccini, Torre Mora has 13 hectares of vines at altitudes between 600 and 700

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Features Rhone 

Rhône discovery (1) Les Chancel, Ventoux

March 23, 2024June 18, 2024 jamiegoode 3421 Views Ventoux

Website: https://www.leschancel.com/ Pierre Chancel was working for Sanofi, a drug company, in his previous life. At one point he was

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Features Regions South Africa 

Restless River, one of South Africa’s most singular and interesting wine projects

March 21, 2024May 21, 2024 jamiegoode 9511 Views

Treve Ring and I visited Restless River for the second time in October 2022, on a sunny but cool and

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Features Italy 

Etna, Sicily: Palmento Constanza

March 19, 2024May 21, 2024 jamiegoode 3033 Views etna, Sicily

Website: https://www.palmentocostanzo.com/en/ I’m very excited by this producer, currently making some of the best wines on the island. Organic with

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Features Italy 

Etna, Sicily: Tenuta Boccarossa

March 19, 2024May 21, 2024 jamiegoode 4398 Views etna, Sicily

Website: http://www.tenutaboccarossa.it/ Michele Calabretta was working in the car industry, and it led him to Germany where he met his

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Features Portugal 

Arribas Wine Co: exciting low-intervention wines from Trás-os-Montes, Portugal

March 18, 2024May 21, 2024 jamiegoode 5189 Views

Website: https://arribaswine.com/ Ricardo Alves and Frederico Machado (pictured above) began the Arribas Wine Company in 2017. They are based in

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France Highlights Romania 

Highlights: two affordable orange wines from Bertrand and Cramele Recas

March 18, 2024May 21, 2024 jamiegoode 3433 Views Languedoc, orange wine

Tried these two orange wines side by side. It’s interesting to see this category of skin-fermented whites (often called orange

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Features Rhone 

Domaine des Escaravailles, a southern Rhône star

March 14, 2024May 21, 2024 jamiegoode 5320 Views Cairanne, Grenache, Rasteau

Website: https://www.domaine-escaravailles.com/en/ Escaravilles means bettle in Occitan, hence the scarb beetle on the label. I tasted these wines with Madeline

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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

I’ve tasted a lot of wines before, but this was the first time I’d tried any from Bolivia. Nayan Gowda,

Champagne Salon and Delamotte: the 2015 Salon release, and a look at the current Delamotte range
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Champagne Salon and Delamotte: the 2015 Salon release, and a look at the current Delamotte range

September 26, 2025September 27, 2025 jamiegoode
Icelandic pharma-titan, Robert Wessman of Maison Wessman in Bergerac and his Wine Director, Lise Sadirac, fight for a new Issigeac micro-appellation with musical backing from Nora Jones 
Features France France Latest 

Icelandic pharma-titan, Robert Wessman of Maison Wessman in Bergerac and his Wine Director, Lise Sadirac, fight for a new Issigeac micro-appellation with musical backing from Nora Jones 

September 25, 2025September 25, 2025 Lisse Garnett
The Judgement of Cape Town
Features Latest South Africa 

The Judgement of Cape Town

September 23, 2025September 23, 2025 Treve Ring

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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.

This is an explanation of what an anorak is.

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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