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Wine is sensitive to storage temperatures. In traditional wine-producing countries wine is often stored after bottling in underground cellars, which

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The most famous Italian red wines and their pairings

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Three Georgian wines from new UK retailer Degustate

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Three wines from Degustate, a new UK-based online Georgian wine shop: www.degustate.co.uk These show the different sides of Georgia, and

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Bairrada, perhaps Portugal’s best terroir? In seven wines

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Bairrada is a wine region in northern Portugal that is attracting a lot of attention at the moment. It has

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Cava is changing. Over the last few months I’ve been tasting some examples of Cava, the well-known traditional method sparkling

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The ‘traditional method’, and how it has enabled Champagne to shed the complication of vintage variation

February 11, 2021 jamiegoode 8220 Views

Champagne is rare in the wine world, in that it’s a wine region that is incredibly consumer-facing. Whereas many of

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A Rueda study: exploring this important Spanish white wine region

December 28, 2020December 28, 2020 jamiegoode 7851 Views Rueda, Verdejo

Rueda is unusual in Spain for being a white wine region. It’s also unusual in that it’s almost, but not

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Three from the KWV Mentors range: high end South Africans

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KWV is an important company in the history of South African wine. In 1918, this super-cooperative (full name Kooperative Wijnbouwers

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Glass bottles for wine: exploring the science

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Glass is remarkable, yet we tend to take it for granted. Wine wouldn’t be what it is today, were it

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Swartberg Wingerde: the amazing Piekeneerskloof wines of Rudiger Gretschel

April 3, 2026April 3, 2026 jamiegoode

Website: https://swartbergwingerde.co.za/ When Rudiger Gretschel (pictured above) was being interviewed for his job with Tim Rands (Boekenhoutskloof et al), he

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Domaine des Tourelles, making impressive wines in Lebanon

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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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