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Champagne Features Wine Science 

Champagne Veuve Cliquot reserve wine tasting: getting geeky about fizz

October 16, 2021October 16, 2021 jamiegoode 6463 Views

This was an interesting tasting of reserve wines from Veuve Clicquot. La Grand Dame Vintage 2012 label was designed by

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Wine Science 

Wine in cans: technical issues

October 8, 2021October 9, 2021 jamiegoode 16194 Views

Canned wine is taking off, but it turns out not to be so simple from a technical perspective. Jamie Goode

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Features Wine Science 

Don’t be made to feel guilty about drinking wine

August 15, 2021October 1, 2021 jamiegoode 11813 Views

The culture I am part of has weird feelings about wine consumption. You could argue that it has an uneasy

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TOP STORIES Wine Science 

My new book! The third edition of Wine Science, launched next week

May 28, 2021June 8, 2021 jamiegoode 9027 Views

Next week, the third edition of Wine Science is published by Mitchell Beazley. [In the USA, it’s exactly the same

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Wine Science 

Frosts and freezing: a look at the science

April 16, 2021June 8, 2021 jamiegoode 13845 Views frost

Frost is an increasing problem in the wine world, with vineyards across many regions experiencing worse frosts as a result

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Features Wine Science 

Ageing wines in space? Sending dormant vines into space? Is this at all scientifically interesting?

April 1, 2021April 1, 2021 jamiegoode 7664 Views

Ageing wine in space? It’s all over the news at the moment, courtesy a rather bizarre publicity stunt that’s looking

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Latest Wine Science 

Curettage: a ‘surgical’ treatment for trunk diseases that seems to work

March 1, 2021 jamiegoode 7499 Views

Jamie Goode reports on a pair of scientific papers that validate the practice of curettage/curetage for treating grapevine trunk diseases.

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Features Wine Science 

Should wine critics be declaring ratings from samples taken with Coravin, or from small bottles?

February 21, 2021 jamiegoode 8521 Views

I think wine critics should indicate when the sample they have tasted has been Coravined. As a producer, if I

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Features Wine Science 

Learning to recognize wine: on objects and perception, part 2

February 2, 2021February 17, 2021 jamiegoode 7038 Views

When we experience a smell, it is almost never a single molecule that we are smelling. We recognize mixtures of

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Wine Science 

Dealing with hail, a viticultural hazard that’s becoming more common

January 31, 2021January 31, 2021 jamiegoode 11590 Views

One of the big threats to many wine regions is hail. Once the vines have their foliage, hail can destroy

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

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

October 28, 2025October 29, 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
Australia Features Latest 

Yarra Valley (5) Yarra Yering

October 25, 2025October 26, 2025 jamiegoode
Tarrawarra winery, Yarra Valley
Australia Features Latest 

Yarra (3) Tarrawarra

October 25, 2025October 26, 2025 jamiegoode

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About Us

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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You can contact Jamie at drjamiegoode@gmail.com Also, through my accounts at Twitter, Instagram and Mastodon

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