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  • Rabasco: beautiful natural wines from Abruzzo, Italy
  • With these twelve wines, Juampi Michellini, Matias Riccitelli, Rafael Urreloja and Derek Mossman Knapp illustrate Argentina and Chile’s precocious ability to express the best in any variety 
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Piemonte adventure (1) Neive: La Cantinetta di Barun, and Degusto

May 28, 2023July 9, 2023 jamiegoode 7556 Views barbaresco, Piemonte

I’m in Piemonte for a few days. Monday to Wednesday I’m lecturing at the University of Gastronomic Sciences, Pollenzo, for

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Highlights: Sottimano Barbaresco Cottá 2018, Piemonte, Italy

May 9, 2023May 9, 2023 Treve Ring 4968 Views barbaresco, Nebbiolo, Piemonte

Andrea Sottimano and his father Rino produce highly regarded, structural, age worthy wines from their 13 hectares across Barbaresco. This

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Pio Cesare: tasting the 2018 Barolos and Barbarescos with Cesare Benvenuto

May 14, 2022May 16, 2022 jamiegoode 8727 Views barbaresco, barolo, piedmont

Pio Cesare is a well known name in Barolo and Barbaresco. With annual production in the range of 400 000

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Visiting Gaja, one of Piedmont’s top producers, and seeing the new Alta Langa vineyards

August 5, 2021August 7, 2021 jamiegoode 25128 Views barbaresco, Nebbiolo

Barbaresco is a small town, and it is pretty much dominated by one producer, Gaja, who put this Piedmont appellation

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Pio Cesare: 140 years of benchmark Barolo and Barbaresco

June 23, 2021May 14, 2022 jamiegoode 10832 Views barbaresco, barolo, Nebbiolo, piedmont

This was a tasting to celebrate 140 years of this important Piedmont producer, whose production is split almost equally between

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Some Piedmont gems: Oddero, Produttori, Albino Rocca

October 14, 2019December 29, 2019 jamiegoode 6761 Views barbaresco, barolo, piedmont

I popped into the excellent Handford Wines, and managed to try some of these Piedmont gems, which were being poured

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Celebrating 25 years of Filipa Pato’s wines with an amazing lunch and tasting
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Celebrating 25 years of Filipa Pato’s wines with an amazing lunch and tasting

October 30, 2026October 30, 2026 jamiegoode

Flipa Pato, daughter of famous Bairrada winegrower Luis Pato, first started making her own wines 25 years ago, in 2001.

Rabasco: beautiful natural wines from Abruzzo, Italy
Features Italy Latest 

Rabasco: beautiful natural wines from Abruzzo, Italy

October 28, 2026October 28, 2026 jamiegoode
With these twelve wines, Juampi Michellini, Matias Riccitelli, Rafael Urreloja and Derek Mossman Knapp illustrate Argentina and Chile’s precocious ability to express the best in any variety 
Argentina Chile Features Latest 

With these twelve wines, Juampi Michellini, Matias Riccitelli, Rafael Urreloja and Derek Mossman Knapp illustrate Argentina and Chile’s precocious ability to express the best in any variety 

October 26, 2026October 26, 2026 Lisse Garnett
Three wines from a new producer in Oxfordshire (UK): Yew Tree Vineyard
England Features Latest 

Three wines from a new producer in Oxfordshire (UK): Yew Tree Vineyard

October 24, 2026October 24, 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.

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