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Alcohol, health, the social licence of drinking and neo-prohibitionism – an important topic for the wine trade to engage with

November 12, 2024April 25, 2025 jamiegoode 4726 Views

How much can you drink without damaging your health? Is there a safe level of drinking? Are government guidelines on

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England Features Wine Science 

Everflyht: a journey into regenerative viticulture with this excellent English wine producer

August 27, 2024March 29, 2025 jamiegoode 4144 Views

Website: https://www.everflyht.com/ This was an interesting day out. I headed down to Ditchling in West Sussex with a group of

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Wine Science 

Gingin and Mendoza, unravelling the mystery of these two related Chardonnay clones

August 21, 2024August 21, 2024 jamiegoode 4574 Views

Travel to Australia and New Zealand and you’ll hear extensive discussion about two clones of Chardonnay: Gingin and Mendoza. They

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In an important and brave move, UK supermarket Tesco releases a wine made from a disease-resistant grape variety called Floreal

August 5, 2024June 5, 2025 jamiegoode 10157 Views

UK supermarket Tesco has made a brave move. They have launched a wine from a disease-resistant hybrid variety called Floreal,

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Grape vines in the wild: what they looked like before domestication

July 28, 2024July 28, 2024 jamiegoode 6858 Views

I’m fascinated by wild vines. We are so used to seeing vines growing neatly in rows in vineyards that sometimes

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Organic spraying: a quick case study

July 10, 2024July 11, 2024 jamiegoode 3224 Views

While I was in the Dobbin vineyard in Niagara, Canada, a tractor went by with a spray recovery system. I

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Features France Wine Science 

Catching up with Plaimont, the super-cooperative focusing on recovering lost grape varieties in France’s southwest

June 19, 2024March 28, 2025 jamiegoode 5317 Views

Website: https://www.plaimont.com/en/ Plaimont have a thing about looking for disappeared (or nearly disappeared) grapes, and this tasting was a great

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Wine Science 

Spigamonti, a new old grape in Valpolicella with distinctive features

June 7, 2024August 25, 2024 jamiegoode 3635 Views

Back in 2009 I did a tasting of some recovered grape varieties in Valpolicella. This is a region dominated by

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Features Videos Wine Science 

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

March 16, 2024May 21, 2024 jamiegoode 5664 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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Canada Latest Wine Science 

Bad news from the Okanagan and other regions in BC, Canada: no grapes to be harvested in 2024

February 10, 2024February 12, 2024 jamiegoode 20102 Views okanagan

Some bad news from the Okanagan Valley in Canada, the country’s second largest wine region. This is a region that

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Cruse x Hirsch, tasting some Californian gems from this star partnership
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Cruse x Hirsch, tasting some Californian gems from this star partnership

October 28, 2025October 28, 2025 jamiegoode

Californians Jasmine Hirsch and Michael Cruse are partners in life and wine, and they came to London to share their

Hatzidakis: a deep dive into these top Santorini wines
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Hatzidakis: a deep dive into these top Santorini wines

October 27, 2025 jamiegoode
Yarra Valley (5) Yarra Yering
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Yarra Valley (5) Yarra Yering

October 25, 2025October 26, 2025 jamiegoode
Tarrawarra winery, Yarra Valley
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Yarra (3) Tarrawarra

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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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