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Crozes-Hermitage (3) Paul Jaboulet-Aîné

January 27, 2025September 28, 2025 jamiegoode 2089 Views crozes-hermitage, Northern Rhone

Paul Jaboulet Aîné is one of the famous names in the northern Rhône. Owners of the famous chapel on the

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Crozes-Hermitage (4) Maison and Domaine Les Alexandrins

January 27, 2025September 28, 2025 jamiegoode 3410 Views crozes-hermitage, Northern Rhone

This is a domaine whose name has changed a bit. Domaine Alexandrins was first founded by Alexandre Caso and Guillaume

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Crozes-Hermitage (7) Yann Chave

January 27, 2025September 28, 2025 jamiegoode 3525 Views crozes-hermitage, Northern Rhone

I met Daphné Chave for lunch at 1906, and we were later joined by her father, Yann Chave. Daphné tells

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Crozes-Hermitage (6) Delas Frères

January 27, 2025September 28, 2025 jamiegoode 2560 Views crozes-hermitage, Northern Rhone

Website: https://www.delas.com/en/ Marco Beckman, cellar master, gave us a tour of the beautiful new winery, and then we tasted with

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Crozes-Hermitage (5) Cave de Tain

January 27, 2025September 28, 2025 jamiegoode 2714 Views crozes-hermitage, Northern Rhone

Cave de Tain is one of the leading players in the northern Rhône. I remember visiting back in 1998 as

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Crozes-Hermitage and its new generation: exploring the largest of the appellations in the northern Rhône

January 27, 2025September 28, 2025 jamiegoode 3587 Views Northern Rhone, syrah

Early on in my journey into wine I fell in love with Syrah from the northern Rhône. The problem was

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Exploring Lirac (7) an overview and a big tasting of Lirac wines

August 5, 2024June 5, 2025 jamiegoode 5516 Views Lirac

Lirac is one of the crus of the Rhône valley, and it’s just northwest of Avignon, next door to Tavel

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Exploring Lirac (6) Domaine Chantepierre/Les Deux Pins

August 5, 2024June 5, 2025 jamiegoode 3614 Views Lirac

This is a sizeable Lirac domaine of 70 hectares of vines, owned by the Paly family. We met with Jean-François

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Exploring Lirac (5) Domaine des Carabiniers ‘Biodynamic Wine’

August 5, 2024June 5, 2025 jamiegoode 2498 Views Lirac

Website: https://www.biodynamicwine.bio/en/ It’s perhaps surprising to find a domaine branded as ‘biodynamic wine’. But that’s how Domaine des Carabiniers describe

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Exploring Lirac (4) Château de Bouchassy

August 5, 2024June 5, 2025 jamiegoode 2401 Views Lirac

I tasted these wines with Marie-Cécile Degoul, who returned to the family domaine two years ago after working for 15

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Gant & Co: stylish wines from Margaret River, Western Australia
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Gant & Co: stylish wines from Margaret River, Western Australia

March 14, 2026March 14, 2026 jamiegoode

Website: https://www.gantandco.com.au/ Matt Gant is an Australian winemaker known for his brand First Drop, which he made for 15 years

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2023 was a tricky vintage in Hawke’s Bay, but this selection of Chardonnays impressed

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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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