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Champagne ‘X’ and the complexity of pricing Champagne

October 22, 2025October 23, 2025 jamiegoode 865 Views Business of wine

So here’s a story about a famous Champagne house and the pricing of their NV blend. I’m not naming them

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Paying more for quality, and the crisis of affordability in wine

October 8, 2025October 8, 2025 jamiegoode 1288 Views Business of wine

It costs money to make wine. Quite a bit of it, if it’s done well. The chief problem is this:

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Let’s look at the coffee market, and see what this can tell us about wine

August 31, 2025August 31, 2025 jamiegoode 1309 Views Business of wine, coffee

People in wine talking about ‘the wine industry’ often get themselves in a stew. As I’ve said before often, and

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Two truths of wine marketing not widely acknowledged

August 17, 2025August 17, 2025 jamiegoode 1639 Views Business of wine

I recent read an excellent post telling winery owners what they could do more effectively in selling their wine. It

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The ‘Joan is awful’ effect, and why people working in wine shouldn’t fall for it

August 12, 2025August 12, 2025 jamiegoode 838 Views Business of wine

‘Joan Is Awful’ is the first episode of the sixth series of Black Mirror, written by Charlie Brooker. It aired

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The disappearing middle

August 3, 2025August 3, 2025 jamiegoode 1600 Views Business of wine

We see lots of cheap wine, lots of expensive wine, but what’s happened to all those mid-priced wines? One of

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Alternative packaging for wine: a new report based on research commissioned by UK retailer The Wine Society

May 3, 2023 jamiegoode 5135 Views Business of wine

It’s great to see UK retailer The Wine Society get serious about its carbon footprint and recyclability. They have commissioned

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Do green credentials sell wine?

February 4, 2023April 28, 2023 jamiegoode 6486 Views biodynamics, Business of wine, Organics

Everyone wants to farm better. But sometimes farming better costs more. So does the added investment pay off? Do green

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Cruse x Hirsch, tasting some Californian gems from this star partnership
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Cruse x Hirsch, tasting some Californian gems from this star partnership

October 28, 2025October 29, 2025 jamiegoode

Californians Jasmine Hirsch and Michael Cruse are partners in life and wine, and they came to London to share their

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Hatzidakis: a deep dive into these top Santorini wines

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Yarra Valley (5) Yarra Yering
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Yarra Valley (5) Yarra Yering

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Tarrawarra winery, Yarra Valley
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Yarra (3) Tarrawarra

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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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