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Alsace Features 

Alsace adventure (3) Barmès-Buecher, great people, great wines

May 2, 2024July 20, 2024 jamiegoode 3027 Views

Website: https://barmes-buecher.com/en/ Wettolsheim-based Barmès-Buecher (pronounced Barm-es Booshay) is one the most interesting producers in Alsace. We visited with Sophie and

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Highlights South Africa 

Highlights: Kelvin Feku Grenache Noir 2022, WO Wellington, South Africa

May 1, 2024July 20, 2024 Treve Ring 4197 Views Grenache

Kelvin Feku is Alex Milner’s (of Natte Valleij) assistant winemaker, and this is the first release under his own label.

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Champagne Highlights 

Highlights: Champagne Telmont Réserve de la Terre

April 27, 2024July 20, 2024 jamiegoode 3788 Views

This wine is new to me. An organic Champagne where the front label looks like a back label, but it’s

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Features Spain 

Visiting Hidalgo La Gitana, one of the Sherry region’s leading producers

April 27, 2024October 17, 2024 jamiegoode 8477 Views Jerez, sherry

I arrived at Hidalgo La Gitana just as they were about to begin harvesting the 2022 vintage, and it was

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Highlights Spain 

Highlights: Hidalgo La Gitana Manzanilla en Rama (2024)

April 25, 2024July 20, 2024 jamiegoode 3798 Views sherry

It’s been exciting to see the rise of Fino and Manzanilla en rama, a story explained in more detail here.

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England Highlights 

Highlights: Roebuck Estates Classic Cuvée 2018 England

April 24, 2024July 20, 2024 jamiegoode 3239 Views Sparkling wine

In recent years, Roebuck Estates has emerged as one of the best English sparkling wine producers. They have four vineyards across

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England Highlights 

Highlights: Martin’s Lane Vineyard Founder’s Vintage Pinot Noir 2022 Crouch Valley, Essex, England

April 23, 2024July 20, 2024 jamiegoode 2890 Views pinot noir

This is a remarkable expression of English Pinot Noir, from a special vineyard in the Crouch Valley (one which lots

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Australia Features Regions 

The wines of Giant Steps, Yarra Valley and Tasmania, Australia

April 22, 2024May 21, 2024 jamiegoode 5709 Views Chardonnay, pinot noir, Yarra Valley

Website: https://www.giantstepswine.com.au/ It’s a new era for Yarra Valley winery Giant Steps. It was recently purchased by Jackson Family Wines,

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Features Spain 

Alegre Valagñón, a new wave Rioja star

April 21, 2024May 21, 2024 jamiegoode 2964 Views Rioja

Website: https://alegrevalganon.com/ Very impressed by these wines from Alegre Valagñón. Husband and wife team Oscar Alegre and Eva Valagñón started

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Features Spain 

The remarkable wines of Bodega Cerrón, Jumilla, Spain

April 19, 2024May 21, 2024 jamiegoode 6452 Views Jumilla, Mourvedre

Website: http://vinacerron.com/ Jumilla is a wine region in the southeast of Spain, in the province of Murcia. It’s hot here,

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Yarra Valley (5) Yarra Yering
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Yarra Valley (5) Yarra Yering

October 25, 2025 jamiegoode

Website: https://www.yarrayering.com/ One of Australia’s vinous treasures, Yarra Yering was set up by the eccentric genius Dr Bailey Carrodus, who

Tarrawarra winery, Yarra Valley
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Yarra (3) Tarrawarra

October 25, 2025October 25, 2025 jamiegoode
Yarra Valley (2) Oakridge
Australia Features Latest 

Yarra Valley (2) Oakridge

October 25, 2025 jamiegoode
Yarra Valley (4) Jayden Ong Wines
Australia Features Latest 

Yarra Valley (4) Jayden Ong Wines

October 25, 2025October 25, 2025 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.

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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