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  • Rabasco: beautiful natural wines from Abruzzo, Italy
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Highlights: Ata Rangi Pinot Noir 2022 Martinborough, New Zealand

June 19, 2025January 15, 2026 jamiegoode 2906 Views Martinborough, pinot noir

Website: https://atarangi.co.nz/ Ata Rangi are one of New Zealand’s top producers, and were one of the pioneers of the Martinborough

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California Features Latest Regions 

Zinfandel: California’s own grape, tasting 59 top examples

June 18, 2025June 18, 2025 jamiegoode 28069 Views Zinfandel

My first real encounter with Zinfandel was reading an excellent book by US author David Darlington, titled Angels’ Visits, and

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England Food and wine Latest 

Restaurants: Angela’s, Margate

June 17, 2025June 17, 2025 jamiegoode 2993 Views Restaurants

Website: https://angelasofmargate.com/ Margate is a seaside town on the Kent coast, and it’s new nickname is Shoreditch on Sea. Why?

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Features Portugal 

The wines of Quinta de Tourais, Douro, Portugal

June 15, 2025January 15, 2026 jamiegoode 3224 Views Douro

Website: https://www.quintadetourais.com/en/index.html Tourias is located in the Baixo Douro, the first part of the Douro you come to when heading

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Visiting Folias de Baco, a Douro winery making compelling natural wines under the Uivo brand (updated June 2025)

June 14, 2025June 15, 2025 jamiegoode 14598 Views Douro

Website: https://www.foliasdebaco.com/ Tiago Sampaio is making some of the Douro’s most interesting natural wines under the Uivo brand. His winery

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Features Portugal 

The wines of Muxagat, from Portugal’s Douro region

June 12, 2025January 15, 2026 jamiegoode 2604 Views Douro

It was back in 2002 that João Nicolau de Almeida and Eduardo Lopes began Muxagat, a terroir project based the

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Features Regions South Africa 

New releases from Savage, one of South Africa’s very top producers

June 11, 2025January 15, 2026 jamiegoode 4315 Views

Website: https://www.savagewines.com/ Duncan Savage has established himself as one of South Africa’s top producers, and each year he seems to

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Champagne Highlights 

Highlights: Champagne Alfred Gratien Cuvée Paradis 2015

June 9, 2025January 15, 2026 jamiegoode 3418 Views

Website: https://www.alfredgratien.com/en/home/ This is the prestige cuvée from Alfred Gratien, who do a lot of barrel work with their base

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Features Portugal 

Gonçalves Faria: serious, classic Bairrada wines, now under the Niepoort stable

June 9, 2025January 15, 2026 jamiegoode 2371 Views Bairrada

António Maia Ferreira Faria was a celebrated producer of classic, long-lived Bairrada under the Gonçalves Faria label, working with some

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Features Spain 

Bendito Destino: a brilliant new project in Spain’s Ribero del Duero

June 8, 2025January 15, 2026 jamiegoode 4978 Views Ribera del Duero

Website: https://www.benditodestino.wine/ Terry Kandylis was head sommelier at 67 Pall Mall, and then spent a year working for Caprice Holdings,

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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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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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