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  • Highlights: Overgaauw Sylvaner 2025 Stellenbosch, South Africa
  • Rabasco: beautiful natural wines from Abruzzo, Italy
  • 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 
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Highlights Portugal 

Highlights: Filipa Pato and William Wouters Post Quer..s Baga 2023 Bairrada, Portugal

May 22, 2025January 15, 2026 jamiegoode 2209 Views Baga

Love this wine, which I bought from a wine shop in Lisbon. The mastery of Baga, maturing it in amphorae

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Burgundy Features TOP STORIES 

Aligoté: how a lesser-known variety from Bourgogne is suddenly hitting the big time, with a bright future ahead of it

May 22, 2025January 15, 2026 jamiegoode 16043 Views Aligote

Website: https://aligoteurs.wordpress.com/ Tucked away in a wood, in Flagey-Échezeaux – at the heart of the Route des Grands Crus in

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Features Profiles Regions Spain 

Terroir al Límit and Terroir Sense Fronteres: stunning, brave wines from Priorat and Montsant by Dominik and Tatjana (updated 2025)

May 21, 2025May 22, 2025 jamiegoode 11397 Views montsant, Priorat

Websites: https://terroir-sense-fronteres.com/ and https://terroir-al-limit.com/ Terroir al Límit is one of Priorat’s most highly acclaimed wineries, established by Dominik Huber and

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Features Italy 

Five from important Tuscan producer Frescobaldi

May 21, 2025January 15, 2026 jamiegoode 2721 Views Chianti Classico, Tuscany

Website: https://www.frescobaldi.com/en/ Frescobaldi is a noted Tuscan producer with nine wineries in the province, making a wide range of wines.

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Tasting top South African Chardonnay
Features South Africa TOP STORIES 

South African Chardonnay: how does it stack up internationally? A tasting with the South African Chardonnay Association in London

May 20, 2025January 15, 2026 jamiegoode 11704 Views Chardonnay

Website: https://chardonnayassociationsouthafrica.com/ The Chardonnay Association of South Africa is a re-born organisation with the aim to market Chardonnay internationally, and

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Highlights Loire 

Highlights: Les Gaules de Bois Grolleau ‘Jackpot’ 2023 Vin de France

May 19, 2025January 15, 2026 jamiegoode 2127 Views grolleau

Les Gaules de Bois (Vincent Alexis & Romuald Cousy) Jackpot Grolleau 2023 Vin de France10.5% alcohol. Vincent Alexis makes wines

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Portugal 

Photos of Lisbon (2) mono

May 19, 2025January 15, 2026 jamiegoode 1385 Views

Another morning wandering around Lisbon, this time taking pictures in black and white. Olympus Pen-F, Leica 15 mm f1.7.

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Features Portugal 

Around Portugal in seven fine wines: a seminar at Vinho da Casa in Lisbon

May 18, 2025January 15, 2026 jamiegoode 2321 Views

Website: https://vinhodacasa.pt/home-2025-en/ A tour through Portugal in seven wines. This was a masterclass I did at Vinho da Casa in

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Portugal 

Photos of Lisbon (1) colour

May 17, 2025January 15, 2026 jamiegoode 1681 Views

Pictures taken on a morning walk around the city, where I stopped off at Garrafeira Nacional and bought a couple

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California Highlights 

Highlights: Louis M Martini Monte Rosso Vineyard Gnarly Vine Zinfandel 2018 Sonoma, California

May 16, 2025January 15, 2026 jamiegoode 2329 Views Sonoma, Zinfandel

Website: https://www.louismartini.com/ Louis Martini established the winery named after him in 1933, just after the repeal of prohibition. He’d established L.M.

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Celebrating 25 years of Filipa Pato’s wines with an amazing lunch and tasting
Features Latest Portugal Regions TOP STORIES 

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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