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Visiting Constantino Ramos, resurrecting the red wines of Monção and Melgaço in the Vinho Verde region of Portugal

January 9, 2024January 9, 2024 jamiegoode 5061 Views Vinho Verde

‘My background is from the pharmaceutical industry,’ says Constantino. ‘My family didn’t produce wine.’ He did a degree in pharmacy

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Video: visiting Constantino Ramos, one of the most exciting producers in Portugal’s Vinho Verde region

January 8, 2024 jamiegoode 4364 Views Vinho Verde

Constantino Ramos came from the pharmaceutical industry, where he was running clinical trials, and shifted to his passion, wine. He

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Port and Madeira: a fortified discussion with Niepoort and Barbeito

December 22, 2023December 22, 2023 jamiegoode 3687 Views Madeira, Port

As part of the program at the 2023 Arlberg Weinberg festival, sommelier Amanda Wassmer-Bulgin compered this session with Ricardo Freitas

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Highlights: three vintages of the Cedro do Noval Branco

November 9, 2023November 9, 2023 jamiegoode 3543 Views Douro

When it comes to table wines, we tend to think of the Douro as a red wine region, but it’s

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Sem Igual: an exciting modern take on Vinho Verde, Portugal

August 20, 2023March 5, 2024 jamiegoode 7014 Views Vinho Verde

Website: https://www.100igual.pt/ João Camizao and Leila Camizao Rocha (pictured above) came into winegrowing from the outside. He was (and still

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Video: Baga and Bairrada, a star red grape from a beautiful Portuguese region

August 2, 2023March 5, 2024 jamiegoode 4194 Views Baga, Bairrada

Jamie Goode heads to the Portuguese wine region of Bairrada, on the trail of the region’s star red grape variety,

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Quinta de Baixo, where Niepoort are making increasingly compelling wines in Bairrada, Portugal

July 31, 2023March 5, 2024 jamiegoode 4892 Views Baga, Bairrada

Dirk Niepoort has long been interested in the terroirs of Bairrada. He thinks that the combination of the chalky clay

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Quinta de Santiago: some lovely naturally inclined wines from Vinho Verde, Portugal

June 9, 2023 jamiegoode 5719 Views Vinho Verde

Website: Quinta de Santiago I tasted these wines with Joana Santiago, who came to work at her family estate in

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Exploring Portugal’s Tejo wine region (5) tasting the wines

June 2, 2023 jamiegoode 5249 Views Tejo

This was a large tasting of Tejo wines, many of which had scored highly at a large competition in the

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Exploring Portugal’s Tejo wine region (2) Pedro Sereno and Marquês de Tomar

June 2, 2023July 6, 2023 jamiegoode 6884 Views Tejo

Pedro Sereno represents the new face of Tejo. He’s making relatively small quantities of terroir-focused wines from the Tomar in

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Another impressive Swiss producer: Domaine de Montbenay from the Vaud
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Another impressive Swiss producer: Domaine de Montbenay from the Vaud

January 13, 2026January 13, 2026 jamiegoode

Website: https://domainedemontbenay.com/ Domaine de Montbenay is run by Paul de Watteville (pictured above), who took over from his father Maurice

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Cave Biber, making lovely wines from Switzerland’s Valais

January 11, 2026January 11, 2026 jamiegoode
Mabillard-Fuchs: beautiful wines from the Valais, Switzerland
Features Latest Switzerland 

Mabillard-Fuchs: beautiful wines from the Valais, Switzerland

January 11, 2026January 11, 2026 jamiegoode
The big bottle party at the Cool Climate Wine Summit: a selection of interesting wines from Poland, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Austria
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The big bottle party at the Cool Climate Wine Summit: a selection of interesting wines from Poland, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Austria

January 10, 2026January 10, 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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