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Gigondas: Domaine des Florets, a new ecologically focused domaine

June 18, 2024August 25, 2024 jamiegoode 2974 Views Gigondas

Website: https://www.domainedesflorets.com/en/home Jérôme Rathle was an environmental consultant, and had worked for he world’s largest specialist sustainability consultancy, ERM, until

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Gigondas: Pierre Amadieu

June 18, 2024August 25, 2024 jamiegoode 2980 Views Gigondas

Website: https://www.pierre-amadieu.com/en/ Pierre Amadieu is an important producer in Gigondas, with around 10% of the appellation’s vineyard area. They have

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Gigondas: Saint Cosme, with Louis Barruol

June 17, 2024March 28, 2025 jamiegoode 2965 Views Gigondas

Website: https://www.saintcosme.com/ Louis Barruol of Château Saint Cosme is one of the presidents of the Gigondas appellation, and he’s making

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Gigondas: one of the Rhône’s most famous crus, celebrated for its reds but now making whites too

June 15, 2024August 25, 2024 jamiegoode 2428 Views

Website: https://www.gigondas-vin.com/en/home/ Gigondas is one of the most prestigious of the Rhône crus (the average bottle price in France for

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Gigondas goes white: tasting the first of the new Gigondas Blanc wines

June 15, 2024March 28, 2025 jamiegoode 4751 Views

There’s a lot of excitement in Gigondas about white wines. From 2023, Gigondas can be white as well as red!

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Rhone discovery (6) a big tasting of Ventoux wines

April 14, 2024June 18, 2024 jamiegoode 8321 Views Ventoux

The Ventoux appellation in the southern Rhône is seriously underrated. I spent a few days there and came away enthused

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Rhône discovery (5) Xavier Vignon, Ventoux

April 13, 2024June 18, 2024 jamiegoode 2895 Views

Xavier Vignon arrived in the southern Rhône in 1996 as a winemaker and consultant and fell in love with the

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Chapoutier’s Sélection Parcellaire releases, 2023

April 11, 2024May 21, 2024 jamiegoode 3283 Views

Chapoutier Sélections Parcellaires En Primeur 2023 When it comes to Rhône wines, no names are bigger than M Chapoutier. But

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Rhône discovery (4) Château Pesquié, one of the leading lights in Ventoux

April 7, 2024June 18, 2024 jamiegoode 2749 Views Ventoux

Website: https://chateaupesquie.com/en/welcome/ The Chaudière family farm 100 hectares of vines in Ventoux. They are based in the village of Mormoiron

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Rhône discovery (3) Domaine Souleyrol, Ventoux

April 5, 2024June 18, 2024 jamiegoode 2355 Views Ventoux

Website: https://domaine-souleyrol.com/ Souleyrol is a beautiful property in Ventoux. It’s a mixed farm with cherries, olives, apricots, table grapes and

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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
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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 
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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
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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.

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