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

June 19, 2024March 28, 2025 jamiegoode 6132 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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Spigamonti, a new old grape in Valpolicella with distinctive features

June 7, 2024August 25, 2024 jamiegoode 4039 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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Video and gallery: Festival del Potatare, the Simonit & Sirch pruning festival 2024

March 16, 2024May 21, 2024 jamiegoode 6020 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 20971 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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My science CV

January 9, 2024January 9, 2024 jamiegoode 5961 Views

After reading a recent book review that questioned my scientific credentials (I don’t think they were aware of the first

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Are pesticide levels in wine something we should be concerned about?

December 14, 2023December 14, 2023 jamiegoode 28041 Views

Advocacy group Pesticide Action Network UK (PAN UK) do some good work. We need independent bodies that campaign for food

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New research suggests that it might be quercetin, not sulfites or biogenic amines, that are responsible for the headaches some people experience after drinking red wine

November 20, 2023November 20, 2023 jamiegoode 16503 Views

Some people suffer from headaches after drinking even a small amount of red wine. Usually for these people, the response

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Books Features Latest Wine Science 

The New Viticulture is now out, and I think it’s my best yet, with a video explaining the contents

October 26, 2023October 26, 2023 jamiegoode 12749 Views

Today I have launched my new book! I mentioned in Regenerative Viticulture that this was on the way: I said

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curetage in action
Latest Loire Wine Science 

Curetage: vine surgery for Esca in action, with François Dal

October 13, 2023October 13, 2023 jamiegoode 6177 Views

Curetage (also referred to as curettage) is the name for a special sort of vine surgery that was invented in

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Beaujolais Features Wine Science 

Beaujolais adventures (4) Château de Javernand, Chiroubles

July 28, 2023January 23, 2026 jamiegoode 5455 Views Agroforestry

Pierre Prost (pictured above) is an articulate advocate of agroecology, something that he’s implementing in the vineyards of Château de

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Four lovely wines at the Drapers Arms: Momento, Suertes, Rougeard, Corleone
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Four lovely wines at the Drapers Arms: Momento, Suertes, Rougeard, Corleone

February 26, 2026 jamiegoode

Four of us gathered at The Drapers Arms to do some playing with the Josephinenhütte wine glasses, and then we

Some top fizz from Berry Bros & Rudd, UK and Champagne
Champagne England Features Latest 

Some top fizz from Berry Bros & Rudd, UK and Champagne

February 26, 2026February 26, 2026 jamiegoode
New Zealand Pinot Noir is in a good place! Tasting 27 examples from across the country
Features Latest New Zealand Regions 

New Zealand Pinot Noir is in a good place! Tasting 27 examples from across the country

February 25, 2026 jamiegoode
Tasting the impressive wines of Viviana Morales of Sauzal Winery in Maule, Chile
Chile Features Latest 

Tasting the impressive wines of Viviana Morales of Sauzal Winery in Maule, Chile

February 23, 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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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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