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Crafted in BC Wines Extended through 2025 Vintage

September 26, 2025 Treve Ring 1925 Views british columbia, okanagan, Similkameen

Earlier this week Wine Growers British Columbia announced that the Government of British Columbia is extending the temporary Crafted in

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The wines of Lock + Worth from Canada’s Okanagan Valley

April 11, 2023April 28, 2023 Treve Ring 4919 Views british columbia, Naramata, Okanagan Valley

Website: Lock + Worth Matt Sherlock and Ross Hackworth make some of the Okanagan’s most interesting wines under their Lock

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Canada’s Exciting Western Edge: The Wine Islands

October 6, 2021October 21, 2021 Treve Ring 13268 Views british columbia, Gulf Islands, Vancouver Island, Wine Islands

Though the Wine Islands are tiny in comparison to the mighty Okanagan Valley, they’re now a hotspot of wine for

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Le Vieux Pin, La Stella, Artakama: star wineries from Canada’s Okanagan

February 19, 2020December 23, 2024 jamiegoode 11897 Views bc wine, british columbia, canada, okanagan, syrah

I visited Le Vieux Pin in late August 2020, and tasted through current and upcoming releases with Severine and assistant

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2025, a wine year in pictures
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2025, a wine year in pictures

January 1, 2026January 1, 2026 jamiegoode

Here’s a selection of pictures from 2025. Quite a year.

A mini-Champagne study: Ayala, Bollinger, Albert Lebrun, Forget Brimont
Champagne Features Latest 

A mini-Champagne study: Ayala, Bollinger, Albert Lebrun, Forget Brimont

January 1, 2026January 1, 2026 jamiegoode
Exploring the Roussillon (5) Torredemer Mangin
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Exploring the Roussillon (5) Torredemer Mangin

December 31, 2025December 31, 2025 jamiegoode
Failla Wines: beautiful site-specific wines from some of northern California’s best vineyards
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Failla Wines: beautiful site-specific wines from some of northern California’s best vineyards

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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.

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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