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Rhone discovery (2) Domaine Aymard, Ventoux

April 2, 2024June 18, 2024 jamiegoode 3361 Views Ventoux

Website: http://domaineaymard.fr/ When it began bottling its own wine in 1979, Domaine Aymard was one of the first private cellars

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Rhône discovery (1) Les Chancel, Ventoux

March 23, 2024June 18, 2024 jamiegoode 3435 Views Ventoux

Website: https://www.leschancel.com/ Pierre Chancel was working for Sanofi, a drug company, in his previous life. At one point he was

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Features Rhone 

Domaine des Escaravailles, a southern Rhône star

March 14, 2024May 21, 2024 jamiegoode 5325 Views Cairanne, Grenache, Rasteau

Website: https://www.domaine-escaravailles.com/en/ Escaravilles means bettle in Occitan, hence the scarb beetle on the label. I tasted these wines with Madeline

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Élodie Balme, a new star from the Southern Rhône

November 13, 2023November 13, 2023 jamiegoode 4014 Views

Website: https://domaineelodiebalme.com/ Élodie Balme’s story is an increasingly common one in old world wine regions. Her parents had vineyards and

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Domaine Purviti, an exciting new domaine from the southern Rhône

June 7, 2023July 9, 2023 jamiegoode 4895 Views

Website: Domaine Purviti This is a new domaine created four years ago by Ingrid Nueil. Previously she was MD of

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Exploring Costières de Nîmes (5) Château Font-Barrièle

April 21, 2023April 21, 2023 jamiegoode 4466 Views

Website: https://chateaufontbarriele.fr/ Not all winery visits go as planned. I was on my way to meet with Christian and Caroline

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Exploring Costières de Nîmes (4) Domaine de Poulvarel

April 11, 2023April 28, 2023 jamiegoode 3520 Views

Website: https://domainedepoulvarel.com/the-domain-of-poulvarel/ My exploration of the Costières de Nîmes continued in the north of the region, at Domaine de Poulvarel.

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Laudun: the birth of a new cru in the Rhône

April 10, 2023April 28, 2023 jamiegoode 6871 Views

Laudun isn’t perhaps the best known of the Rhône’s appellations, but it is currently moving from one of the Côtes

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The jewels of the Northern Rhône: exploring top Côte Rôtie and Condrieu

April 4, 2023April 28, 2023 jamiegoode 7331 Views

I fell in love with the wines of the northern Rhône early on in my wine journey. And the gems

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In the vineyards of Côte Rôtie

April 4, 2023April 4, 2023 jamiegoode 5085 Views

I took a break from tasting yesterday to wander through the vineyards of Côte Rôtie. I was mainly in Côte

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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 
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.

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