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Video: Kumeu River, New Zealand’s most celebrated Chardonnay producer

January 31, 2021February 3, 2021 jamiegoode 7822 Views Chardonnay

A film from a visit to Kumeu River in west Auckland, New Zealand. The Brajkovich family started making wine here

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Portugal Videos 

Video and notes: tasting five Ports from Ramos Pinto

January 19, 2021January 23, 2021 jamiegoode 6020 Views Port

Jamie Goode tastes five ports from Ramos Pinto: white, 20 year old tawny, LBV and then the 1995 and 1997

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Highlights: Champagne Krug Rosé NV France

January 18, 2021January 18, 2021 jamiegoode 6220 Views

Champagne Krug Rosé NV France12.5% alcohol. This is 29% 2012, with 71% from reserve wines. In all, 22 wines from

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Graham Norton’s celebrity wines: tasting the Sauvignon Blanc and ‘Pink by Design’

January 12, 2021January 18, 2021 jamiegoode 13606 Views Sauvignon Blanc

Since 2014 Graham Norton – comedian, actor and talk show host – has been endorsing a range of wines made

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Video: [food] how capers are made

December 14, 2020 jamiegoode 9691 Views

Capers are the immature flowers of Capparis spinosa, the caper bush, which have been preserved in salt. This grows all

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Video: introducing the Wine Club from the Sourcing Table

December 12, 2020December 12, 2020 jamiegoode 6143 Views

The Sourcing Table, the online wine venture that I am involved with (in a commercial capacity: conflict of interest) as

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South Africa Videos 

Video: what’s next for sustainability in South Africa’s wine regions?

November 13, 2020 jamiegoode 6360 Views

Yesterday I took part in a session for Wines of South Africa on sustainability, with a really great group of

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Video: visiting Willy Perez, who is on a mission to capture the great Sherry wines of the past

November 11, 2020November 11, 2020 jamiegoode 6363 Views sherry

Jamie Goode visits Willy Perez of Bodega Luis Perez, who’s looking to capture the great Sherry wines of the past.

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Video: Waitrose autumn 2020 press tasting

November 1, 2020December 23, 2020 jamiegoode 5459 Views

Most of the wine tastings in the busy London calendar have been cancelled because of Covid. But a few essential

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Video: visiting Peter Sisseck’s sherry bodega

October 30, 2020October 30, 2020 jamiegoode 5972 Views sherry

Peter Sisseck, the maker of Pingus, one of Spain’s most famous red wines, wants to make equally great white. So

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Revisiting the brilliant low-intervention wines of Espera, from Portugal’s Lisboa region
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Revisiting the brilliant low-intervention wines of Espera, from Portugal’s Lisboa region

July 15, 2026July 15, 2026 jamiegoode

Website: https://www.esperawines.pt/en-gb Espera is a natural wine producer based in Alcobaça, in the Lisboa wine region of Portugal. Soils here are

Exploring speciality coffee and its parallels with fine wine: planning for the future, looking at new coffee varieties
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Exploring speciality coffee and its parallels with fine wine: planning for the future, looking at new coffee varieties

July 14, 2026July 14, 2026 jamiegoode
Exploring speciality coffee and its parallels with fine wine: regenerative farming in coffee production at the Sombra agroforestry project at Fazenda Mió in Brazil
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Exploring speciality coffee and its parallels with fine wine: regenerative farming in coffee production at the Sombra agroforestry project at Fazenda Mió in Brazil

July 14, 2026July 14, 2026 jamiegoode
Sensory assessment of coffee, with parallels to wine tasting: cupping, grading and describing, with Dr Fabiana Carvalho
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Sensory assessment of coffee, with parallels to wine tasting: cupping, grading and describing, with Dr Fabiana Carvalho

July 14, 2026July 14, 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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