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Highlights: Mayacamas Chardonnay 2023 Mt. Veeder, Napa Valley, California

May 9, 2025 jamiegoode 399 Views Chardonnay

Mayacamas Chardonnay 2023 Mt. Veeder, Napa Valley, California13.5% alcohol. This is fine, restrained and pure on the nose with focused

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Australia Videos 

Video: tasting the Kin 2023 Grenache from Alkina in the Barossa Valley

May 6, 2025 jamiegoode 234 Views Grenache

Tasting the Kin Grenache 2023 from Barossa Valley star winery Alkina who have developed a micro-parcel approach to their vineyard

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Video: Wynn Signature Chinese Wine Awards 2025

March 16, 2025 jamiegoode 751 Views

Jamie Goode travels to Macau in China to take part as a judge in the Wynn Signature Chinese Wine Awards

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Video: visiting Raj Parr at Phelan Farms in Cambria, California

December 8, 2024December 8, 2024 jamiegoode 1298 Views

Such an interesting project! See this link for full details.

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Video: in the vineyards of the Mâconnais, Bourgogne, France

October 31, 2024April 25, 2025 jamiegoode 1853 Views

In July 2024 I visited the Mâconnais wine region in the south of Bourgogne (Burgundy), France. It’s an underrated region

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Video: Martinelli’s Jackass vineyard, planted before 1889, and one of California’s oldest

October 14, 2024October 17, 2024 jamiegoode 1844 Views

This short film was taken in July when I visited the Jackass vineyard and Jackass Hill vineyard (right next door)

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Australia Videos 

Video: Bastard Hill, a special vineyard in Australia’s Yarra Valley, is reborn under the ownership of Giant Steps

August 15, 2024August 15, 2024 jamiegoode 3271 Views Yarra Valley

The Bastard Hill vineyard was planted by Ray Guerin in 1987. It’s high up in the Yarra Valley (Australia), and

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Video: side events of Karakterre 13, a natural wine festival held in Burgenland, Austria, May 2024

June 4, 2024August 25, 2024 jamiegoode 4442 Views Natural wine

As part of the Karakterre 2024 festival, along with a group of sommeliers and wine people from the US and

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Video and gallery: Festival del Potatare, the Simonit & Sirch pruning festival 2024

March 16, 2024May 21, 2024 jamiegoode 5218 Views

I’m just back from the Festival del Potatare, the second edition of the pruning festival organized by industry leading pruning

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Video: reviving the tradition of making wines in amphora in the Alentejo, Portugal

January 18, 2024 jamiegoode 5800 Views Alentejo, Amphora

The south of the Alentejo wine region has a tradition of making wine in large clay amphorae known as talhas.

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Isole e Olena and Cepparello: new releases from this important Chianti Classico estate
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Isole e Olena and Cepparello: new releases from this important Chianti Classico estate

May 13, 2025May 13, 2025 jamiegoode

Back in 1956, just as sharecropping was ending, the De Marchi family of Piedmont bought two estates in San Donato,

Mornington Peninsula Pinot Noir: a study in six wines
Australia Features Latest 

Mornington Peninsula Pinot Noir: a study in six wines

May 11, 2025May 11, 2025 jamiegoode
A mini-Riesling study: Australia, New Zealand, Germany
Australia Features Germany Latest New Zealand 

A mini-Riesling study: Australia, New Zealand, Germany

May 10, 2025 jamiegoode
The 2023 releases from Maison Verget, one of the stars of the Mâconnais
Burgundy Features Latest 

The 2023 releases from Maison Verget, one of the stars of the Mâconnais

May 7, 2025May 7, 2025 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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