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Bairrada

Features Latest Portugal 

Mira do Ó: beautiful terroir-focused wines from Dão, Bairrada and the Alentejo

January 3, 2025January 3, 2025 jamiegoode 712 Views Bairrada, Dao

Website: https://miradoovinhos.com/ Nuno Mira do Ó is the dude behind Mira do Ó Vinhos, and he now has three projects.

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Features Portugal 

The wines of Sidónio de Sousa, Bairrada

October 28, 2024April 25, 2025 jamiegoode 1344 Views Baga, Bairrada

Bairrada is one of Portugal’s most interesting wine regions, specialising in reds from Baga, but also some really good sparkling

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Features Portugal 

Quinta da Vacariça, a French sommelier making biodynamic wines in Portugal’s Bairrada region

September 9, 2024March 29, 2025 jamiegoode 2280 Views Baga, Bairrada

François Chasans was a sommelier in France, and he first came to Portugal in 1998. He came for an agricultural

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Features Latest Portugal 

The wines of Luis Pato, Bairrada, Portugal

August 14, 2024August 14, 2024 jamiegoode 3309 Views Baga, Bairrada

Website: http://www.luispato.com/ Luis Pato (which is Portuguese for ‘duck’) is probably the best-known producer in the Bairrada region. For a

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Features Latest Portugal Regions 

Transmission: an exciting new wine project in Portugal’s Bairrada wine region

July 9, 2024July 9, 2024 jamiegoode 3611 Views Bairrada

Transmission is an exciting new wine project from Bairrada. It’s a partnership between TAP pilot and wine lover Vitor Bento

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Highlights Latest Portugal 

Highlights : Filipa Pato & William Wouters Flos Castanea 2022, Bairrada, Portugal

January 10, 2024 Treve Ring 2862 Views Bairrada, biodynamic

This experimental project was made with the grandson of Vinho Verde biodynamic pioneer Fernando Paiva, of Quinta da Palmirinha. Paiva

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Portugal Videos 

Video: Baga and Bairrada, a star red grape from a beautiful Portuguese region

August 2, 2023March 5, 2024 jamiegoode 3241 Views Baga, Bairrada

Jamie Goode heads to the Portuguese wine region of Bairrada, on the trail of the region’s star red grape variety,

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Features Portugal 

Quinta de Baixo, where Niepoort are making increasingly compelling wines in Bairrada, Portugal

July 31, 2023March 5, 2024 jamiegoode 3534 Views Baga, Bairrada

Dirk Niepoort has long been interested in the terroirs of Bairrada. He thinks that the combination of the chalky clay

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Mornington Peninsula Pinot Noir: a study in six wines
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Mornington Peninsula Pinot Noir: a study in six wines

May 11, 2025May 11, 2025 jamiegoode

The Mornington Peninsula wine region. This region has established itself as Australia’s most important for Pinot Noir, and it also

A mini-Riesling study: Australia, New Zealand, Germany
Australia Features Germany Latest New Zealand 

A mini-Riesling study: Australia, New Zealand, Germany

May 10, 2025 jamiegoode
The 2023 releases from Maison Verget, one of the stars of the Mâconnais
Burgundy Features Latest 

The 2023 releases from Maison Verget, one of the stars of the Mâconnais

May 7, 2025May 7, 2025 jamiegoode
Sashi Moorman presents Domaine de la Côte, one of California’s most exciting wineries
California Features Latest TOP STORIES 

Sashi Moorman presents Domaine de la Côte, one of California’s most exciting wineries

May 6, 2025 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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