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Highlights South Africa 

Highlights: Wolf & Woman Chenin Blanc 2020 Swartland, South Africa

May 6, 2022May 6, 2022 jamiegoode 4756 Views Chenin Blanc, swartland

It’s amazing how many serious expressions of Chenin are coming out of the Swartland these days. I know the scene

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Highlights South Africa 

Highlights: David & Nadia Grenache 2018 Swartland, South Africa

April 10, 2022May 15, 2022 jamiegoode 5160 Views

Grenache has a good future in the Western Cape, I reckon. David and Nadia Sadie are making some really impressive

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Highlights South Africa 

Highlights: Natte Valleij P.O.W. 2017, WO Simonsberg-Paarl, South Africa

March 25, 2022May 15, 2022 Treve Ring 4588 Views

Natte Valleij’s old cape Dutch buildings have seen a lot of history, including housing a prisoner of war who was

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New to wine South Africa 

Pieter Ferreira – Modern Day Maestro of Bubbles speaks to Lisse Garnett

March 17, 2022May 15, 2022 Lisse Garnett 21472 Views

Dom Pérignon is a mere fable in the face of Saffer stalwart Pieter Ferreira. Famed for his monk-like dedication to

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South Africa Sparkling wine 

The Wines of Cap Classique Pieter Ferreira

February 9, 2022February 24, 2022 Treve Ring 7098 Views MCC

When you’re known in the wine world as Mr. and Mrs. Bubbles, it’s understood that you take sparkling seriously. Ann

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Features Profiles Regions South Africa 

Lokaia, an exciting new project from Franschhoek, South Africa

December 18, 2021December 18, 2021 jamiegoode 8200 Views Franschhoek

Lokaia is a joint project from Franschhoek vignerons Clayton Reabow (winemaker at Moreson) and Craig McNaught (winemaker at Stony Brook).

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Features Profiles South Africa 

KWV The Mentors range, a tasting with winemaker Izele van Blerk

December 10, 2021 jamiegoode 8542 Views

KWV are an important company in the history of South African wine. KWV stands for Kooperative Wijnbouwers Vereniging van Zuid

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South Africa Videos 

Tasting some highlights from the Cape Winemakers Guild Auction 2021

September 15, 2021September 17, 2021 jamiegoode 6509 Views

Jamie Goode, Greg Sherwood and Lisse Garnett taste some of the wines from the Cape Winemakers Guild Auction 2021, which

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Highlights Regions South Africa 

Highlights: Great Heart Red Blend 2019 Swartland, South Africa

September 9, 2021September 9, 2021 jamiegoode 7491 Views

I really like this initiative from Mullineux and Leeu Family Wines in South Africa. Great Heart is a staff empowerment

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Latest Regions South Africa 

Two new high-end wines from Iona (Elgin, South Africa): Kloof and Solace

August 26, 2021 jamiegoode 7350 Views Chardonnay, Elgin, syrah

Elgin-based producer Iona have released two new wines from special terroirs. I review them here. Iona Solace Wine of Brocha

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Rabasco: beautiful natural wines from Abruzzo, Italy
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Rabasco: beautiful natural wines from Abruzzo, Italy

October 28, 2026October 28, 2026 jamiegoode

Website: https://www.rabascowinery.com/en/home-en-2/ Rabasco is an impressive natural wine producer in Abruzzo, which is run by Iole Rabasco. She was previously

With these twelve wines, Juampi Michellini, Matias Riccitelli, Rafael Urreloja and Derek Mossman Knapp illustrate Argentina and Chile’s precocious ability to express the best in any variety 
Argentina Chile Features Latest 

With these twelve wines, Juampi Michellini, Matias Riccitelli, Rafael Urreloja and Derek Mossman Knapp illustrate Argentina and Chile’s precocious ability to express the best in any variety 

October 26, 2026October 26, 2026 Lisse Garnett
Three wines from a new producer in Oxfordshire (UK): Yew Tree Vineyard
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Three wines from a new producer in Oxfordshire (UK): Yew Tree Vineyard

October 24, 2026October 24, 2026 jamiegoode
Cantina Terlarno and Produttori del Barbaresco: an amazing dinner with two of the world’s great cooperative wineries, tasting back to the 1960s
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Cantina Terlarno and Produttori del Barbaresco: an amazing dinner with two of the world’s great cooperative wineries, tasting back to the 1960s

October 23, 2026October 23, 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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