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England Highlights 

Highlights: Hambledon Première Cuvée Rosé NV Hampshire, England

July 23, 2023January 16, 2024 jamiegoode 2224 Views

This is the debut vintage of the Hambledon Première Cuvée Rosé, and it’s based on the 2016 vintage. The idea

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Burgundy Features 

Exploring Bourgogne (1) Domaine Verret, Saint-Bris

July 22, 2023January 16, 2024 jamiegoode 4803 Views

Domaine Verret14 route de Champs – 89530 Saint-Bris-Le-VineuxTel. +33 (0)3 86 53 31 81www.domaineverret.com The Verret family have been winegrowers

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Australia Features 

Penfolds Collection 2023, including the new 2019 Grange

July 19, 2023January 16, 2024 jamiegoode 5373 Views

Peter Gago was in London to introduce the 2023 Penfolds Collection. This iconic Australian producer has been busy adding wines

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Features Spain 

Cava discovery (4) Vilarnau

July 17, 2023January 16, 2024 jamiegoode 4575 Views cava

Website: https://www.vilarnau.es/en Vilarnau is a medium-sized Cava house owned by González Byass since 1982. In the 1980s they wanted to

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Beaujolais Features 

Beaujolais adventures (3) Domaine Les Garçons, an exciting newcomer

July 16, 2023January 16, 2024 jamiegoode 5207 Views

This is a very exciting new project in Beaujolais. First vintage of this domaine was 2020, and it is run

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Features Spain Videos 

Video: In Rioja, visiting 10 wineries with World’s Best Vineyards

July 16, 2023January 16, 2024 jamiegoode 3407 Views Rioja

In July 2023 Jamie Goode joined a trip with World’s Best Vineyards competition to Rioja, visiting 10 leading wineries in

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England Features 

New Hall Wine Estate: 2021 releases from this Crouch Valley (Essex, England) winery

July 15, 2023January 16, 2024 jamiegoode 4175 Views

Website: www.newhallwines.com One of England’s oldest commercial vineyards, planted in 1969 by Bill and Sheila Greenwood. That year they began

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Penn Croft and Itasca Wines: an interesting Hampshire contract winery (Thorrington Mill, Wraxhall, Missing Gate) also making their own wines

July 15, 2023July 15, 2023 jamiegoode 7502 Views

Ben Smith is the winemaker at Itasca Wines, a 600 ton winery in north Hampshire. Here he makes some of

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Features New York State Regions 

Beyond the sea: a tasting of Rieslings influenced by bodies of water

July 14, 2023January 16, 2024 jamiegoode 3846 Views Finger Lakes, Riesling

Lakes have been important in making viticulture possible in many regions. Think of Niagara in Canada: without the lake effect

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Beaujolais Highlights 

Highlights: Jean-Marc Burgaud Morgon Les Charmes 2020

July 11, 2023January 16, 2024 jamiegoode 3464 Views Gamay

Big fan of Burgaud’s Beaujolais wines. He’s based in Villie Morgon and makes quite sturdy, ageworthy bottles that also have

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Tasting some wines from Bolivia: Jardín Oculto and Yokich
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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.

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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