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Highlights Latest Portugal 

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

January 10, 2024 Treve Ring 3313 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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Australia Highlights Latest 

Highlights: Joshua Cooper Shay’s Flat Cabernet Sauvignon 2021, Pyrenees, Victoria, Australia

November 22, 2023 Treve Ring 3333 Views biodynamic, Pyrenees

Joshua Cooper grew up in the vineyards with parents Alan and Nelly Cooper, and their pioneering biodynamic Cobaw Ridge winery

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Burgundy France 

Catching up on the Bourgogne whites of Jules Desjourneys

March 13, 2022May 15, 2022 Treve Ring 7769 Views biodynamic

As Goode detailed in his 2018 post, the Jules Desjourneys wines have rightfully caught the attention of many. I caught

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Highlights Spain 

Highlights: A duo of striking reds from 4Kilos

December 29, 2021February 11, 2022 Treve Ring 4514 Views biodynamic, islands, Mallorca, organic

A kilo is old Spanish slang for one million Pesetas, Spain’s former currency. 4 Kilos founders Francesc Grimalt and Sergio

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Austria Highlights 

Highlights: Hajszan Neumann Nussberg Grüner Veltliner 2020, Austria

December 5, 2021December 14, 2021 Treve Ring 5006 Views biodynamic, gruner veltliner

Weingut Hajszan Neumann is located at the foot of the Nussberg and the district of Grinzing, with 20 hectares of

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Highlights 

Highlights: Vignoble du Rêveur Un Instant sur Terre 2019

February 15, 2021February 16, 2021 Treve Ring 7057 Views Alsace, biodynamic, France, Natural wine

Mathieu Deiss, who works with his father Jean-Michel at Alsace’s legendary winery Marcel Deiss, created Vignoble du Rêveur in 2013. Translating

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Highlights Latest New Zealand 

Millton Crazy by Nature wines: Cosmo Red and Sirius White

January 25, 2021January 25, 2021 jamiegoode 8766 Views biodynamic

I’ve visited James and Annie Millton – biodynamic pioneers in New Zealand’s Gisborne region – a few times now. Here’s

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Highlights Portugal 

Highlight : Julia Kemper 2017 Elpenor Blanc de Noir

April 10, 2020April 10, 2020 Treve Ring 4307 Views biodynamic, Dao, granite

The Melo family landed in Dão’s Oliveira–Mangualde hundreds of years ago, and that’s where the vineyards and winery of current

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Millésime Bio
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Highlights from Millésime Bio & around Montpellier

February 26, 2020March 5, 2020 Treve Ring 5254 Views biodynamic, Natural wine, Organics, trade

As Goode tidily wrote up, 2020 saw the 27th edition of Millésime Bio, the world’s largest organic wine fair. We crossed

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Austria Highlights 

Highlights : Hajszan-Neumann 2016 Gemischter Satz Natural, Wiener Gemischter Satz DAC Nussberg, Austria

December 30, 2019January 3, 2020 Treve Ring 6168 Views biodynamic, Demeter, Natural wine

With a name like Fritz Wieninger, you have to trust that wine, and Vienna, is in his blood. Fritz is

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Features

Alentejo: a study in eight wines, from a region focused on sustainability
Features Latest Portugal 

Alentejo: a study in eight wines, from a region focused on sustainability

October 20, 2025October 20, 2025 jamiegoode

Website: https://sustentabilidade.vinhosdoalentejo.pt/en/wines-of-alentejo-sustainability-programme The Alentejo is an important wine region in southern Portugal, with 23 000 hectares of vines, spread over

It Takes a Village: a remarkable collaborative Australian Claret
Australia Features Latest 

It Takes a Village: a remarkable collaborative Australian Claret

October 20, 2025 jamiegoode
Carlos Raposo, World Wild Wines: in search of precision from Dão, Portugal
Features Latest Portugal 

Carlos Raposo, World Wild Wines: in search of precision from Dão, Portugal

October 19, 2025 jamiegoode
Book review: Jane Masters and Andrew Neather, Rooted in change: the stories behind sustainable wine
Features Latest 

Book review: Jane Masters and Andrew Neather, Rooted in change: the stories behind sustainable wine

October 19, 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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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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