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Giant Steps, Yarra Valley: Australia’s winery of the year launches the first wines from the remarkable Bastard Hill vineyard

August 21, 2024June 5, 2025 jamiegoode 10913 Views Chardonnay, pinot noir, Yarra Valley

Website: https://www.giantstepswine.com.au/ Giant Steps is a Yarra Valley winery that’s currently in the spotlight, winning the 2025 Halliday Guide Winery

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Danbury Ridge: where thoughtful viticulture, a great climate and magical clays are helping to create England’s best still wines

August 15, 2024June 5, 2025 jamiegoode 4518 Views

Website: https://www.danburyridge.com/ Danbury Ridge has, in a short time, established a reputation for being the leading producer of still wines

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Emidio Pepe at 60: Chiara Pepe presents the past, present and future of this Abruzzo star

May 16, 2024July 20, 2024 jamiegoode 6756 Views Abruzzo

Website: https://www.emidiopepe.com/en/ Emidio Pepe is 60! This celebrated winery from the Abruzzo region in Italy has been on a celebratory

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Features Rhone TOP STORIES 

Rhone discovery (6) a big tasting of Ventoux wines

April 14, 2024June 18, 2024 jamiegoode 11197 Views Ventoux

The Ventoux appellation in the southern Rhône is seriously underrated. I spent a few days there and came away enthused

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Chile Features TOP STORIES 

Dry-grown Chile: exploring Itata, a historic region whose time has now come

March 3, 2024May 21, 2024 jamiegoode 13467 Views Itata

The modern era of Chilean wine has been defined by French grape varieties: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Carmenère, Chardonnay and Sauvignon

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So you want to be a wine writer?

February 26, 2024May 21, 2024 jamiegoode 9497 Views

I think it was Hugh Johnson who first came up with the memorable phase: ‘wine needs words’. While we are

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Bordeaux 2021 in bottle: ratings of many of the top wines

February 19, 2024 jamiegoode 16610 Views

I don’t taste the cask samples of the new vintage of Bordeaux en primeurs, for quite a few reasons, but

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Burgundy Features Latest TOP STORIES 

Bourgogne (Burgundy) 2022: a surprising and beautiful vintage

January 25, 2024 jamiegoode 18037 Views Chardonnay, pinot noir

Each year in January, the UK wine trade has a Bourgogne week. Except, we still call it Burgundy week. The

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Austria Features Latest TOP STORIES 

The remarkable wines of Werlitsch, Styria, Austria

January 22, 2024 jamiegoode 6717 Views Natural wine

Website: http://www.werlitsch.com/ Ewald and Brigitte Tscheppe (above) are the couple behind one of Austria’s most interesting wine projects: the Werlitsch

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Visiting Constantino Ramos, resurrecting the red wines of Monção and Melgaço in the Vinho Verde region of Portugal

January 9, 2024January 9, 2024 jamiegoode 5434 Views Vinho Verde

‘My background is from the pharmaceutical industry,’ says Constantino. ‘My family didn’t produce wine.’ He did a degree in pharmacy

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Exploring Vinho Verde: Quinta de Santiago
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Exploring Vinho Verde: Quinta de Santiago

April 28, 2026April 28, 2026 jamiegoode

Website: https://quintadesantiago.pt/en/ Joana Santiago came to work at her family estate in 2009 after 15 years as a lawyer. Previously,

Portugal’s Vinho Verde, a region transforming itself
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Portugal’s Vinho Verde, a region transforming itself

April 28, 2026April 28, 2026 jamiegoode
Exploring Vinho Verde: Casa de Cello
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Exploring Vinho Verde: Casa de Cello

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Domaine Milan, making impressive natural wines in Provence
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Domaine Milan, making impressive natural wines in Provence

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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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