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Video: three inexpensive Rosés from Aldi tasted on camera – how do they rate?

August 7, 2026August 7, 2026 jamiegoode 167 Views Rose

Rosé is a growing category, and there’s never been a wider choice available for consumers. Here, I sit down with

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Video: Spur pruning masterclass with Livio Tognon of Simonit & Sirch

July 21, 2026July 21, 2026 jamiegoode 808 Views

Pruning grape vines is a critical role in viticulture. Vines are perennial plants and almost always, they need to be

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Video: visiting an agroforestry coffee plantation in Brazil, the 15 hectare Sombra experiment that’s a collaboration between Fazenda Mió and Volcano Coffee Works in the UK

July 13, 2026July 16, 2026 jamiegoode 968 Views

Coffee is often grown as a monocrop. Here, at Fazenda Mió in Brazil I’m visiting a 15 hectare agroforestry experiment,

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Video: regenerative viticulture at Champagne Perrier-Jouët

June 30, 2026 jamiegoode 880 Views

Jamie Goode investigates the regenerative viticulture plots in the Ambonnay vineyards of Champagne Perrier-Jouët. This project has been going since

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Video: Hollick & Hobbs, Seneca Lake, Finger Lakes, New York

June 26, 2026 jamiegoode 810 Views Finger Lakes

Jamie Goode visits winemaker Lynne Fahy at one of the Finger Lakes’ (New York State) most exciting vineyards: Hollick &

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Video: Pannobile – meeting this coalition of amazing Burgenland producers, who are making some of Austria’s most interesting wines

May 27, 2026May 27, 2026 jamiegoode 1293 Views

A group of international wine folk gathered at Claus Preisinger’s winery in Gols to meet the Pannobile group. This is

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Videos: Robots in the vineyard, new technology applied

May 14, 2026May 14, 2026 jamiegoode 2471 Views

Viticulture is expensive, and a lot of the cost is paying people to do quite boring, repetitive work. Of course,

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Champagne Latest Videos 

Video: Can an £8 (€9.25, US$10.85) Champagne be any good?

May 4, 2026May 4, 2026 jamiegoode 1401 Views

I sit down with my two brother in laws and my nephew to taste a Champagne that was on sale

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Video: Vitibot Bakus, a vineyard robot, in action in Bourgogne

April 12, 2026April 12, 2026 jamiegoode 3006 Views

I’ve known about Vitibot Bakus, an autonomous vineyard robot, for a few years, but this week I saw it in

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Video: Champagne Drappier launch Éclose, a new prestige cuvée

March 27, 2026March 27, 2026 jamiegoode 1693 Views

Jamie Goode visits Urville in the Aube – the southern outpost of Champagne – where one of the most important

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Minimalist Wines, the exciting South African Syrah-focused winery of Sam Lambson
Features Latest Regions South Africa 

Minimalist Wines, the exciting South African Syrah-focused winery of Sam Lambson

August 8, 2026 jamiegoode

Website: https://www.minimalistwines.com/ I popped into Flint Wines to meet a South African winemaker that everyone is talking about. Sam Lambson

Bordeaux Claret: the new AOC Bordeaux Claret Controllée is an interesting move, broadening the appeal of Bordeaux reds
Bordeaux Features Latest 

Bordeaux Claret: the new AOC Bordeaux Claret Controllée is an interesting move, broadening the appeal of Bordeaux reds

August 6, 2026August 6, 2026 jamiegoode
Beaumes-de-Venise exploration: Domaine Saint Amant
Features Latest Rhone 

Beaumes-de-Venise exploration: Domaine Saint Amant

August 4, 2026 jamiegoode
Beaumes-de-Venise exploration: a big tasting of the reds and the Muscats
Features Latest Rhone 

Beaumes-de-Venise exploration: a big tasting of the reds and the Muscats

August 4, 2026August 4, 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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