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Suertes del Marqués: tasting all vintages of the remarkable Vidonia cuvée from Tenerife’s Orotava Valley with winemaker Jonatan Garcia

October 3, 2023March 5, 2024 jamiegoode 6987 Views Tenerife

Vidonia is the reinvention of a historic wine from Tenerife. Originally, it was a fortified wine from Tenerife made in

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Highlights Spain 

Highlights: La Rioja Alta Viña Arana Gran Reserva 2016

October 2, 2023March 5, 2024 jamiegoode 3574 Views Rioja

Classic, ageworthy and really good. It’s not bad value, either at around £40. La Rioja Alta Viña Arana Gran Reserva

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Burgundy Highlights 

Highlights: Domaine de la Cras Bourgogne Blanc Coteaux de Dijon 2017

October 1, 2023March 5, 2024 jamiegoode 3648 Views Chardonnay

A superb white Bourgogne that I bought a few years ago, drinking brilliantly now. Domaine de la Cras Marc Soyard

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Food and wine Highlights South Africa 

Highlights: Mullineux and Sadie at Noble Rot Mayfair

September 29, 2023March 5, 2024 jamiegoode 3025 Views Restaurants, swartland

Had a lovely lunch this week at Noble Rot Mayfair, the third restuarant in the Noble Rot franchise after Lambs

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Features Italy 

Allegrini’s La Poja: a vertical tasting of this important Veneto wine

September 26, 2023March 5, 2024 jamiegoode 2430 Views veneto

Website: https://allegrini.it/en/ Silvia and Francesco Allegrini are the seventh generation involved with the business, and they presented this vertical tasting

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Sugrue South Downs, one of the UK’s leading sparkling wine producers

September 23, 2023September 26, 2023 jamiegoode 4493 Views

Website: https://www.sugruesouthdowns.com/ Dermot Sugrue is one of the most respected sparkling winemakers in the UK. He was winemaker at Nyetimber

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Highlights: Westcott Pinot Noir 2019 Niagara, Canada

September 23, 2023March 5, 2024 jamiegoode 3122 Views

Niagara Pinot Noir has come a long way in a decade. I remember my first visit ten years ago, and

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Features Latest Spain 

Cava discovery (9) Augustí Torelló Mata

September 21, 2023November 9, 2023 jamiegoode 2854 Views cava

Augustí Torelló Mata founded a Cava house that has becomeone of the most distinctive in the region. He’s also written

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Chile Features Regions 

Almaule: a collective brand focusing on old vine País from Maule, Chile

September 20, 2023March 5, 2024 jamiegoode 5300 Views Maule, Pais

Website: https://almaule.cl/ Almaule is a collaborative venture, similar to VIGNO, but focusing on old vine País from the Maule region

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Features Italy 

In Montalcino: the Challenging 2023 Vintage

September 18, 2023March 5, 2024 Treve Ring 4800 Views Brunello di Montalcino, Harvest, Toscana

I spent time in Montalcino in end August, the last opportunity to taste with winemakers before they are headstrong into

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Tasting some wines from Bolivia: Jardín Oculto and Yokich
Features Latest 

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
Champagne Features Latest Regions TOP STORIES 

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.

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