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Kopke Colheita Ports: a historic tasting going back to 1940

June 17, 2020June 23, 2020 jamiegoode 7323 Views Douro, Port

It’s not often you get to try wines from 1980, 1960 and 1940 in one tasting. Well, that’s what I

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Features South Africa TOP STORIES 

Méthode Cap Classique Report

May 22, 2020June 4, 2021 Treve Ring 20386 Views Sparkling wine

Goode and Ring report on South Africa’s most vibrant wine category: MCC (for Méthode Cap Classique, the name used for

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Burgundy Profiles TOP STORIES Uncategorized 

In pursuit of Aligoté: visiting Les Champs des Themis, Bouzeron

May 3, 2020May 15, 2021 jamiegoode 9568 Views Aligote

Jamie Goode visits Xavier Moissenet, who’s making some amazing Aligoté in Bouzeron – Bourgogne’s appellation devoted to the grape. He

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Canada Profiles TOP STORIES 

Les Pervenches: stunning natural wines from Québec’s Chardonnay Pioneer

April 27, 2020April 27, 2020 jamiegoode 11484 Views Chardonnay, Quebec

Once just a tourist industry making wines for local consumption, Québec’s wine scene is beginning to wake up, led by

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Features TOP STORIES Wine Science 

The latest on mouse, the wine taint of our times

April 24, 2020April 24, 2020 jamiegoode 37800 Views

Mouse taint (mousiness) is a wine fault that I’d not experienced until a few years ago. Now it seems to

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Features South Africa TOP STORIES 

In the Swartland with Eben Sadie (2) in the cellar, and tasting the wines

April 20, 2020April 23, 2020 jamiegoode 14921 Views swartland

Jamie Goode and Treve Ring taste with Eben Sadie, and visit the winery where some of South Africa’s most sought-after

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South Africa TOP STORIES Videos 

Video: Stompie’s new home in the Swartland – visiting Platteklip

April 16, 2020 jamiegoode 5545 Views swartland

Jamie Goode and Treve Ring visit Stompie Meyer’s new place. He’s got a new home for JH Meyer wines and

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California TOP STORIES Videos 

Harvesting Chardonnay in Carneros, Napa

April 13, 2020April 13, 2020 jamiegoode 6211 Views Carneros, Chardonnay, Napa

In September 2015 I joined the Truchard winery in Carneros, Napa Valley, for some harvest experience, picking and processing Chardonnay

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Features Portugal TOP STORIES 

Made in clay (2): Talha day, a festival of amphora wines

April 8, 2020January 18, 2021 jamiegoode 6267 Views Amphora

Here are the rest of our notes for wines tasted at Amphora Wine Day in the Alentejo in November 2019.

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Features Spain TOP STORIES 

Sal da Terra, in search of the perfect Albariño

March 31, 2020March 31, 2020 jamiegoode 8636 Views Albarino

Back in June 2018 I travelled to Galicia with chums Daniel Primack and Ben Henshaw. We were on a mission:

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Gallo, the world’s largest wine company, has three insanely large wineries in California
California Features Latest 

Gallo, the world’s largest wine company, has three insanely large wineries in California

January 17, 2026January 17, 2026 jamiegoode

Gallo (they dropped the E&J bit in 2024) own the three largest wineries in the world. They don’t tend to

Bianka and Daniel Schmitt, making impressive natural wines in Rheinhessen, Germany
Features Germany Latest Profiles 

Bianka and Daniel Schmitt, making impressive natural wines in Rheinhessen, Germany

January 15, 2026January 15, 2026 jamiegoode
Another impressive Swiss producer: Domaine de Montbenay from the Vaud
Features Latest Switzerland 

Another impressive Swiss producer: Domaine de Montbenay from the Vaud

January 13, 2026January 13, 2026 jamiegoode
cave biber valais
Features Latest Switzerland 

Cave Biber, making lovely wines from Switzerland’s Valais

January 11, 2026January 11, 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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