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Highlights South Africa 

Highlights: Lourens Family Wines Lindi Carien 2022 Western Cape, South Africa

June 9, 2024August 25, 2024 jamiegoode 3566 Views

Found this wine on the shelf at the Kew branch of the excellent Good Wine Shop. After a walk on

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Features Regions South Africa 

Sakkie Mouton: an exciting new producer from the Cape’s West Coast

June 4, 2024August 25, 2024 jamiegoode 6150 Views

Website: https://www.smfw.co.za/ Sakkie Mouton wanted to be a musician but he’s ended up making some thrilling wines from the West

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Features South Africa 

Boschendal, an important South African winery

May 31, 2024August 25, 2024 jamiegoode 4779 Views

Website: https://boschendal.com/ Boschendal is an important winery for South Africa, filling in that important space between big brand and boutique.

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Highlights South Africa 

Highlights: Thistle and Weed Chenin Blancs

May 12, 2024July 20, 2024 Treve Ring 5001 Views Chenin Blanc

Thistle and Weed is a collaboration between the Terblanche and Wiid families, established in 2015, and led by Etienne Terblanche

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Features South Africa 

Smiley/Silwervis/Terracura are back! One of South Africa’s most interesting wine projects returns

May 8, 2024July 20, 2024 jamiegoode 9144 Views

One of South Africa’s quirkiest and most interesting wine projects was Silwervis and Terracura, a two-branded winery born in the

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Highlights South Africa 

Highlights: Kelvin Feku Grenache Noir 2022, WO Wellington, South Africa

May 1, 2024July 20, 2024 Treve Ring 4982 Views Grenache

Kelvin Feku is Alex Milner’s (of Natte Valleij) assistant winemaker, and this is the first release under his own label.

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Features South Africa 

The 2023 releases from Eben Sadie, South Africa

April 17, 2024May 21, 2024 jamiegoode 5076 Views swartland

I’ve written lots about Eben Sadie before, and he hardly needs an introduction. So without much supplementary commentary, here are

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Highlights South Africa 

Highlights: Crystallum Peter Max Pinot Noir 2021 Western Cape, South Africa

April 16, 2024May 21, 2024 jamiegoode 4528 Views

I visited Peter-Allan Finlayson at Gabrielskloof back in November. I really like the Crystallum wines he makes there, so if

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Features Regions South Africa 

Restless River, one of South Africa’s most singular and interesting wine projects

March 21, 2024May 21, 2024 jamiegoode 11842 Views

Treve Ring and I visited Restless River for the second time in October 2022, on a sunny but cool and

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Bellingham: an important winery in South Africa spanning fine wine to lower-priced offerings

February 12, 2024February 12, 2024 jamiegoode 5535 Views

Bellingham is an important winery for South Africa, bit historically and also in terms of what it’s doing now. Processing

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The concept of island wines is now firmly established: a tasting with Pascaline Lepeltier
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The concept of island wines is now firmly established: a tasting with Pascaline Lepeltier

June 23, 2026June 23, 2026 jamiegoode

 At the 2026 Island Wines Summit, celebrated sommelier Pascaline Lepeltier (now at Chambers Wines in New York) led a really

Alentejeo Spotlight: on the road in Manchester, Edinburgh and Bristol with some interesting wines from this Portuguese region
Features Latest Portugal Regions 

Alentejeo Spotlight: on the road in Manchester, Edinburgh and Bristol with some interesting wines from this Portuguese region

June 23, 2026June 23, 2026 jamiegoode
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Yuki Bar revisited: one of London’s best spots for natural wine

June 22, 2026June 22, 2026 jamiegoode
Island Wines Summit: Sea Wines Without Borders, a brilliant tasting with Josep Roca
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Island Wines Summit: Sea Wines Without Borders, a brilliant tasting with Josep Roca

June 21, 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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Disclosure: unless otherwise clearly marked, the articles on this site are free of conflicts of interest. Any sponsored content will be clearly marked, and potential conflicts of interest will also be disclosed. As is normal in the wine industry, many of the wines tasted here are free samples and some travel is sponsored by others (for example, regional bodies or groups of producers), but in these cases no guarantees of coverage are given.

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