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Austria Videos 

Video: visiting the Wagram wine region in Austria by tractor

September 6, 2023 jamiegoode 3541 Views

Jamie Goode heads from Graffneg to the Wagram wine region in Austria on tractor. As part of the OTW tastings

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Highlights Italy 

Highlights: La Spinetta Timorasso 2021, Piemonte, Italy

September 4, 2023March 5, 2024 Treve Ring 3761 Views Piemonte

Timorasso is an ancient indigenous grape variety of Piemonte, worthy and regarded enough to have its own DOC (!). This

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Features South Africa TOP STORIES 

Damascene, the new star from South Africa

September 2, 2023March 5, 2024 jamiegoode 8135 Views

One of the most exciting producers to emerge from the already very exciting South African wine scene in the last

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Features New York State 

The wines of Keuka Lake Vineyards, Finger Lakes, New York State

September 1, 2023March 5, 2024 jamiegoode 7014 Views Finger Lakes

Website: https://www.klvineyards.com/ At the FLXcursion event in Geneva, New York, I caught up with Mel Goldman to taste his Keuka

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Bordeaux Highlights 

Highlights: Les Cadrans de Lassègue Saint-Emilion Grand Cru 2020

August 31, 2023March 5, 2024 jamiegoode 6320 Views

Slightly surprised to see a wine this good in the Flagship AA lounge in Dallas Fort Worth Airport. It’s the

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Australia Features Regions 

Old Vines, Classic Wines: a brief study of Australian wine

August 30, 2023March 5, 2024 jamiegoode 4185 Views

These wines were served at a Wine Australia lunch at the Texsom conference in Dallas, August 2023. It’s a really

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Features Latest New York State 

Element Winery: one of the stars of the Finger Lakes region, New York State

August 27, 2023August 27, 2023 jamiegoode 4557 Views Finger Lakes

Website: https://www.elementwinery.com/ Chris Bates is a master sommelier and restaurateur who also has his own winery in the Finger Lakes

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Features Spain 

Cava discovery (7) Mastinell

August 24, 2023March 5, 2024 jamiegoode 3349 Views cava

Website: https://mastinell.com/en/ I first encountered Mastinell a few years ago when I stayed at the remarkable five-star hotel they have.

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England Highlights 

Highlights: Hattingley Blanc de Blancs 2015 England

August 23, 2023March 5, 2024 jamiegoode 2486 Views Sparkling wine

This is superb. The new Blanc de Blancs from Hattingley Valley. Hattingley Blanc de Blancs 2015 Hampshire, England12% alcohol. This

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Burgundy Highlights 

Highlights: Ganevat Cuvée Madelon at La Dilettante in Beaune

August 21, 2023July 21, 2025 jamiegoode 4548 Views Restaurants

Beaune is a great town to stay in, and one of the highlights for drinking good wine is La Dilettante.

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Hungarian wines at Georgie’s Ruin Bar
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Hungarian wines at Georgie’s Ruin Bar

October 24, 2025 jamiegoode

Ruin Bars are a special feature of Budapest nightlife. They started up in the early 2000s as impromptu bars in

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Goguette: designer, made-in-France wine fridges for epicureans

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Goode’s Crib Sheets: No 1. Japanese wineries
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Goode’s Crib Sheets: No 1. Japanese wineries

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Champagne ‘X’ and the complexity of pricing Champagne

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About Us

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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