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California Features 

Favia: Andy and Annie’s boutique Napa wine operation has taken a step forward with the purchase of a significant Oakville vineyard site, and the 2021s impress

December 28, 2024September 28, 2025 jamiegoode 3320 Views Napa

Website: https://www.faviawines.com/ Annie and Andy Erickson founded Favia in 2003. I caught up with them at a dinner in the

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Highlights Jura 

Highlights: Ganevat Les Cedres 2016 Côtes du Jura

December 26, 2024September 28, 2025 jamiegoode 1857 Views Natural wine

This negoce wine from Ganevat is singing after 8 years, no added sulfites, and still fresh. Anne et Jean-François Ganevat

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Highlights: Champagne Bollinger PN VZ19 France

December 25, 2024September 28, 2025 jamiegoode 1962 Views

Very impressed by this prestige bottling from Bollinger. Champagne Bollinger PN VZ19 France12.5% alcohol. This is 100% Pinot Noir, base

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Beaujolais adventures (8) Nicolas Chemarin

December 23, 2024September 28, 2025 jamiegoode 3428 Views

Nicolas Chemarin is one of the rising stars of the natural wine scene in Beaujolais, and I visited him on

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Features Spain 

The remarkable wines of Arizcuren, Rioja, Spain

December 21, 2024September 28, 2025 jamiegoode 2997 Views Rioja

Website: https://www.arizcurenvinos.com/en/ Javier Arizcuren (pictured above) is producing some of Rioja’s most interesting wines, from vineyards owned by his family.

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England Features TOP STORIES 

UK/English sparkling wine: a major study

December 20, 2024September 28, 2025 jamiegoode 4719 Views Sparkling wine

UK sparkling wine (almost all of which is from England) is at a very interesting phase. There are now lots

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Chile Features 

Vinos Baettig: exciting Chardonnay and Pinot Noir from the green south of Chile

December 19, 2024September 28, 2025 jamiegoode 3722 Views Chardonnay, pinot noir

Website: https://vinosbaettig.cl/#home Francisco Baettig was in London to show the wines he’s been making under his own label, Baettig. I’d

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Features Portugal 

Three Vintage 2022 Ports from Taylor and Fonseca including a new bottling called Sentinels

December 18, 2024July 4, 2025 jamiegoode 2148 Views Douro, Port

As a vintage, 2022 was heading for disaster – it was just so dry. Between November 2021 and February 2022

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Burgundy Features Sponsored content 

Louis Jadot: how a major producer in Bourgogne is transitioning to organics and adapting to climate change, and tasting their 2023 releases

December 17, 2024July 4, 2025 jamiegoode 7126 Views

Website: https://www.louisjadot.com/ Recently I tasted through the 2023 releases from Louis Jadot, and interviewed David Stephan, export director, about the

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Highlights Italy 

Highlights: Querciabella Batàr 2022 IGT Blanco Toscana, Italy

December 15, 2024July 4, 2025 jamiegoode 2168 Views Tuscany

Website: https://querciabella.com/wine/batar/ Querciabella Batàr 2022 IGT Blanco Toscana, Italy14% alcohol. Since 1988 Querciabella have made this ‘supertuscan’ white, which is

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Exploring Vinho Verde: Covela, who helped lead the region’s charge to more serious wine styles
Features Latest Portugal 

Exploring Vinho Verde: Covela, who helped lead the region’s charge to more serious wine styles

June 5, 2026June 5, 2026 jamiegoode

Website: https://covela.pt/en/ I’m back at Covela, after a 10 year gap. And it’s nice to meet with Rui Cunha, who

Bordeaux 2025 wines en primeur
Bordeaux Features Latest Regions 

A quick appraisal of the 2025 vintage in Bordeaux

June 3, 2026 jamiegoode
Jean Baptiste Hardy, making beautiful wines in Muscadet
Features Latest Loire 

Jean Baptiste Hardy, making beautiful wines in Muscadet

June 3, 2026June 3, 2026 jamiegoode
anselmo and tiago mendes vinho verde
Features Latest Portugal Regions 

Exploring Vinho Verde: visiting star producer Anselmo Mendes

June 2, 2026June 2, 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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