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Germany Videos 

Video: in the Mosel, visiting Fio in Piesport

December 23, 2019 jamiegoode 4873 Views

Here’s a quick film from last week’s visit to the Mosel. Here, I’m in the vineyards with Daniel Niepoort of

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Burgundy Videos 

Video: in the Grand Cru Vineyards of Chablis

December 15, 2019December 29, 2019 jamiegoode 6449 Views Chablis, Chardonnay

Back in April, I visited Chablis for the first time. It’s an amazing wine region, and one that’s almost unique

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Portugal TOP STORIES Videos 

Making talha (amphora) wine at Cortes de Cima

December 9, 2019December 9, 2019 jamiegoode 7782 Views Alentejo

For vintage 2019 I spent a few days at Alentejo winery Cortes de Cima, to help make a very interesting

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Videos 

Video: Mas des Brousses in the Terrasses du Larzac

December 6, 2019December 6, 2019 jamiegoode 5271 Views Languedoc

A short film of a visit to the spectacular Terrasses du Larzac in France’s Languedoc region

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Videos 

Video: visiting Lyrarakis in Crete

December 5, 2019December 5, 2019 jamiegoode 5652 Views Crete

Greek wines are interesting at the moment, so I was happy to visit leading Crete winery Lyrarakis in September, during

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South of France Videos 

Video: in the Haute Corbières visiting Domaine Sainte Croix

December 1, 2019December 1, 2019 jamiegoode 4407 Views Corbieres, Languedoc

Jamie Goode heads to the Hautes Corbières in the Languedoc (deep in the south of France) where he meets Jon

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Videos Wine Science 

Video: visiting Trentino to see Cavit’s groundbreaking PICA viticultural app in action

November 2, 2019November 2, 2019 jamiegoode 6019 Views

This is a film showing PICA in action in the vineyards of Trentino. It’s sophisticated computer modelling on all the

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Argentina Profiles Regions Videos 

Big can be good: visiting Trapiche, Argentina’s largest producer

October 16, 2019October 26, 2019 jamiegoode 10396 Views mendoza

Trapiche, part of the Peñaflor group, was founded in 1883 and is now Argentina’s largest producer. Often with wine, small

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Videos 

Video: the Douro Valley – from Port to world-class table wines

October 15, 2019October 15, 2019 jamiegoode 5820 Views Douro

This is a film I made with David Fuller a few years back. It’s about the Douro Valley in Portugal

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Videos 

Video: how wine barrels are made

October 5, 2019October 5, 2019 jamiegoode 6650 Views

I visited the Mercurey cooperage in Burgundy to see how wine barrels were made.

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Chile Features Latest 

Garcés Silva is making some lovely wines in Chile’s Leyda Valley, mostly under the Amayna label

February 13, 2026February 13, 2026 jamiegoode

Website: https://vgs.cl/en/ Garcés Silva is a winery whose name isn’t well known, but they are important in the story of

La Grange d’Ernest, an exciting new producer from Savoie
Features France Latest 

La Grange d’Ernest, an exciting new producer from Savoie

February 11, 2026February 11, 2026 jamiegoode
Impressive, well priced wines from Grochau Cellars/GC Wines from Oregon’s Willamette Valley
Features Latest Oregon 

Impressive, well priced wines from Grochau Cellars/GC Wines from Oregon’s Willamette Valley

February 8, 2026February 8, 2026 jamiegoode
Boekenhoutskloof: a vertical of Semillon, and the 2023 new releases from this top South African winery
Features Latest South Africa 

Boekenhoutskloof: a vertical of Semillon, and the 2023 new releases from this top South African winery

February 6, 2026February 6, 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.

This is an explanation of what an anorak is.

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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