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Video: visiting Lyrarakis in Crete

December 5, 2019December 5, 2019 jamiegoode 5233 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 4107 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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Video: visiting Trentino to see Cavit’s groundbreaking PICA viticultural app in action

November 2, 2019November 2, 2019 jamiegoode 5679 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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Big can be good: visiting Trapiche, Argentina’s largest producer

October 16, 2019October 26, 2019 jamiegoode 9661 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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Video: the Douro Valley – from Port to world-class table wines

October 15, 2019October 15, 2019 jamiegoode 5444 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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Video: how wine barrels are made

October 5, 2019October 5, 2019 jamiegoode 6191 Views

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

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Video: in the vineyards of Southern California with Abe Schoener

September 1, 2019September 16, 2019 jamiegoode 4829 Views
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Video: visiting the Aeolian island of Salina, to discover Malvasia

June 6, 2019October 6, 2019 jamiegoode 4807 Views malvasia, Sicily

Salina, on of the Aoelian islands off the coast of Sicily, hosts the annual Malvasia day each year. Here was

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walking in the chablis wine region
Travel Videos 

Video: the Balade Gourmande, Chablis

April 19, 2019October 6, 2019 jamiegoode 3538 Views Burgundy, Chablis

Walking through the vineyards of Chablis, stopping to drink and eat Jamie Goode takes part in the Chablis Balade Gourmande

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New Zealand Videos 

Video: New Zealand wine flight

January 26, 2019October 6, 2019 jamiegoode 4931 Views

Air New Zealand and New Zealand Wine Growers collaborate to put on a special wine flight over five of New

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Tasting some wines from Bolivia: Jardín Oculto and Yokich
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Tasting some wines from Bolivia: Jardín Oculto and Yokich

September 28, 2025 jamiegoode

I’ve tasted a lot of wines before, but this was the first time I’d tried any from Bolivia. Nayan Gowda,

Champagne Salon and Delamotte: the 2015 Salon release, and a look at the current Delamotte range
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Champagne Salon and Delamotte: the 2015 Salon release, and a look at the current Delamotte range

September 26, 2025September 27, 2025 jamiegoode
Icelandic pharma-titan, Robert Wessman of Maison Wessman in Bergerac and his Wine Director, Lise Sadirac, fight for a new Issigeac micro-appellation with musical backing from Nora Jones 
Features France France Latest 

Icelandic pharma-titan, Robert Wessman of Maison Wessman in Bergerac and his Wine Director, Lise Sadirac, fight for a new Issigeac micro-appellation with musical backing from Nora Jones 

September 25, 2025September 25, 2025 Lisse Garnett
The Judgement of Cape Town
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The Judgement of Cape Town

September 23, 2025September 23, 2025 Treve Ring

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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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