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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 7350 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 4564 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 6530 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 21801 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 6728 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 32735 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 17904 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 14004 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 6960 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 6326 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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Santuvario, a natural wine producer in Alto Piemonte, Italy
Features Italy Latest 

Santuvario, a natural wine producer in Alto Piemonte, Italy

October 16, 2026 jamiegoode

Santuvario is a small natural wine producer based in the town of Borgomanero in Alto Piemonte, at the foot of

Otrepò Pavese Classese: tasting through a large range of these impressive Pinot Noir-based sparkling wines from northwest Italy
Features Italy Latest Regions Sparkling wine 

Otrepò Pavese Classese: tasting through a large range of these impressive Pinot Noir-based sparkling wines from northwest Italy

October 15, 2026October 15, 2026 jamiegoode
Hazendal, a Stellenbosch wine estate transformed
Features Latest South Africa 

Hazendal, a Stellenbosch wine estate transformed

October 14, 2026October 14, 2026 jamiegoode
Galiza: a seminar focusing on the wines of Galicia, Spain
Features Latest Spain 

Galiza: a seminar focusing on the wines of Galicia, Spain

October 12, 2026October 12, 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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