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More on mouse taint

February 10, 2022February 10, 2022 jamiegoode 9382 Views

Mouse taint is the wine fault of our times, and it’s the bane of natural wine producers and importers worldwide.

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Objectivity in wine tasting: an appeal to sculpture

November 27, 2021November 27, 2021 jamiegoode 7474 Views

Bernini’s sculpture Apollo and Daphne dates back to 1625, and is a striking work. Interestingly, Bernini intended it to be

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Regenerative viticulture: what is it, and why all the fuss now?

November 18, 2021 jamiegoode 39710 Views

There are lots of different ways of farming vineyards. Conventional, sustainable, organic, biodynamic – and now we have the newcomer

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Visiting Champagne Mumm (2): new approaches to viticulture

October 19, 2021March 28, 2022 jamiegoode 8283 Views

Mumm is one of the two Champagne houses owned by Pernod Ricard, along with Perrier-Jouët. I visited them during harvest

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Champagne Veuve Cliquot reserve wine tasting: getting geeky about fizz

October 16, 2021October 16, 2021 jamiegoode 7446 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 in cans: technical issues

October 8, 2021October 9, 2021 jamiegoode 18420 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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Don’t be made to feel guilty about drinking wine

August 15, 2021October 1, 2021 jamiegoode 13226 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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My new book! The third edition of Wine Science, launched next week

May 28, 2021June 8, 2021 jamiegoode 10497 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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Frosts and freezing: a look at the science

April 16, 2021June 8, 2021 jamiegoode 16004 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 8945 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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Santuvario, a natural wine producer in Alto Piemonte, Italy
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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
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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
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Hazendal, a Stellenbosch wine estate transformed

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