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Cane pruning in pictures

March 30, 2023March 30, 2023 jamiegoode 10990 Views

Pruning isn’t terribly glamorous, but it’s an essential part of viticulture. The vast majority of vineyards are pruned one of

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Features New Zealand Wine Science 

Marlborough at 50: a new project to safeguard the vineyard of the future, using accelerated clonal selection

March 15, 2023May 13, 2023 jamiegoode 7676 Views

So the Marlborough wine region turns 50 this year. With its continued growth and success, you could forgive the region

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When we taste wine, how accurate are our perceptions?

March 5, 2023April 28, 2023 jamiegoode 8448 Views

How accurate are our assessments? One question keeps coming back to me. When we judge or rate wine as professionals,

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Big news: new genetic evidence shows that the grapevine was domesticated in two locations, and 3000 years earlier than previously thought

March 2, 2023April 28, 2023 jamiegoode 73393 Views

Hold the press: Georgia turns out not to be the origin of the wine grapes widely used today. A significant,

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How can wine regions combat rising temperatures?

February 13, 2023February 13, 2023 jamiegoode 5345 Views

Climate chaos is real. With highly irregular weather patterns, we are also seeing a warming trend across the world’s wine

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What is a grape variety? What is a clone? Unpacking the science

February 9, 2023February 9, 2023 jamiegoode 24581 Views Chardonnay, pinot noir

We talk a lot about clones and grape varieties. But what, precisely, do these terms mean? Let’s first define ‘variety’.

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Exploring Costières de Nîmes (3) Michel Gassier and family, adopting regenerative viticulture

January 19, 2023March 7, 2023 jamiegoode 6515 Views

Website: https://www.famillegassier.com/en/ Michel Gassier is one of the leading producers in Costières de Nîmes, and has two domaines, making three

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Wines on the edge, imperfectly perfect – a seminar and tasting looking at wine faults

November 15, 2022March 7, 2023 jamiegoode 6839 Views

A few weeks ago I visited California, presenting a seminar titled Wines on the Edge in Los Angeles and San

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Exploring smell and the art of the perfumer, with Dr Melanie McBride

September 12, 2022September 13, 2022 jamiegoode 5624 Views

As a wine person, I’m deeply interested in smell. It’s a sense that lies at the heart of gastronomy, and

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Canned wine round-up

September 3, 2022September 3, 2022 jamiegoode 4775 Views

Canned wines are now a thing. I remember my first experience with them, in Oregon, with the 375 ml cans

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Paying more for quality, and the crisis of affordability in wine
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Paying more for quality, and the crisis of affordability in wine

October 8, 2025October 8, 2025 jamiegoode

It costs money to make wine. Quite a bit of it, if it’s done well. The chief problem is this:

Visiting Aya Estate for the opening of their winery: Bulgarian wine playing at a new level
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Visiting Aya Estate for the opening of their winery: Bulgarian wine playing at a new level

October 7, 2025October 7, 2025 jamiegoode
Bonhams is auctioning off the cellar of Locanda Locatelli, and a few of us get to try some of the gems over lunch
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Bonhams is auctioning off the cellar of Locanda Locatelli, and a few of us get to try some of the gems over lunch

October 6, 2025October 6, 2025 jamiegoode
A quick guide to New Zealand wine
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A quick guide to New Zealand wine

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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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