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A spotlight on the Dão region, currently making some of Portugal’s most interesting wines

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Exploring the Best of Georgian Wines: A Lineup for UK Wine Enthusiasts

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Where to go for a wine tasting in Paris

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Paris is one of the world’s great cities, and France is one of the globe’s leading wine countries. In fact,

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One of the great things about open kitchens in restaurants is that you get to see the professionals at work.

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Louis Jadot: how a major producer in Bourgogne is transitioning to organics and adapting to climate change, and tasting their 2023 releases

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The wines of Terre de la Custodia, Umbria, Italy

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A brief tour of some of Italy’s most interesting red grape varieties

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Italy is one of the most interesting wine-producing countries of all, with a diverse range of wine-producing regions running the

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Spotlight on Nova Scotia, Canada: tasting some of the top wines

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Jamie Goode tastes some of the top wines from this eastern Canadian wine region. I’ve visited Nova Scotia three times,

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Exploring Portugal’s Tejo wine region (5) tasting the wines

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This was a large tasting of Tejo wines, many of which had scored highly at a large competition in the

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Exploring Portugal’s Tejo wine region (2) Pedro Sereno and Marquês de Tomar

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Pedro Sereno represents the new face of Tejo. He’s making relatively small quantities of terroir-focused wines from the Tomar in

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Tablas Creek and Château Beaucastel: a Wine Society tasting telling the story of how a leading Rhône domaine fell in love with California
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Tablas Creek and Château Beaucastel: a Wine Society tasting telling the story of how a leading Rhône domaine fell in love with California

October 2, 2025October 2, 2025 jamiegoode

Jason Haas of Tablas Creek and Andrew Bayley (GM of Beaucastel’s UK operation) presented this really interesting tasting, telling the

Tasting some wines from Bolivia: Jardín Oculto and Yokich
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Tasting some wines from Bolivia: Jardín Oculto and Yokich

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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

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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 
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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 

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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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