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Highlights: three vintages of the Cedro do Noval Branco

November 9, 2023November 9, 2023 jamiegoode 3480 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 6965 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 4131 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 4786 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 5659 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 5142 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 6783 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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Exploring Portugal’s Tejo wine region (3) Casal de Coelheira

June 2, 2023June 2, 2023 jamiegoode 5969 Views Tejo

Nuno Falcão Rodrigues’ parents bought Casal de Coelheira in 1986, and he started working here in 1992. It’s the last

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Exploring Portugal’s Tejo wine region (4) Quinta do Casal Monteiro

June 2, 2023June 2, 2023 jamiegoode 5845 Views Tejo

Casal Monteiro is a relatively large vineyard that is purely on the Campo terroir of the Tejo. They are just

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Exploring Portugal’s Tejo wine region (1) an introduction

June 2, 2023June 5, 2023 jamiegoode 5330 Views

In this series of articles, published together, I’m going to be exploring the Tejo wine region in Portugal, which has

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Exploring the Roussillon (3) Bila-Haut
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Exploring the Roussillon (3) Bila-Haut

December 24, 2025December 24, 2025 jamiegoode

Website: https://www.chapoutier.com/fr/boutique/nos-domaines-et-maison/domaine-de-bila-haut-38 Bila-Haut is Chapoutier’s Roussillon project, based in Latour De France. Back in 1998 Michel Chapoutier bought 50 hectares

Exploring the Roussillon (2) Cave Dom Brial
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Exploring the Roussillon (2) Cave Dom Brial

December 24, 2025December 24, 2025 jamiegoode
Exploring the Roussillon (1) an introduction
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Exploring the Roussillon (1) an introduction

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Visiting Villa Melnik, one of Bulgaria’s leading wineries, in the Struma Valley
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Visiting Villa Melnik, one of Bulgaria’s leading wineries, in the Struma Valley

December 22, 2025December 22, 2025 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.

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