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Nice wines at the 67 Sessions: Le Moine, Brocard, Scala Dei, San Leonardo

September 5, 2025 jamiegoode 2471 Views Chablis, champagne, Priorat

The evening before the 67 Pall Mall Global Wine Communicator Awards, there was a new event. The 67 Sessions, an

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Champagne Highlights 

Highlights: Domaine de Hélène Champagne Grand Cru Blanc de Blancs Vieilles Vignes Extra Brut NV

June 2, 2024August 25, 2024 Treve Ring 7187 Views champagne, Chardonnay, grower champagne

Descended from a long line of winegrowers in Cramant since 1891, Pierre Hugot has worked with highly respected domains in

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Champagne Features France TOP STORIES 

In Champagne: Agrapart & Fils

December 30, 2020January 1, 2021 Treve Ring 11928 Views champagne, grower champagne

Founded in 1894, Champagne Agrapart & Fils has rightfully emerged as one of the finest grower estates in the Côte

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Features New Zealand 

Hawke’s Bay Chardonnay (1) six top wines tasted

December 25, 2020February 17, 2021 jamiegoode 7989 Views champagne

January 6, 2021 – I received the same wines as Goode, a few weeks later, and thought it would be

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Champagne Profiles Regions Sparkling wine 

In Champagne: Leclerc Briant

February 8, 2020February 15, 2020 jamiegoode 17956 Views champagne, grower champagne

Leclerc Briant is a newly revived Champagne house with a unique approach, including some very alternative élevage, and ageing one

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Highlights 

Highlights: Champagne Gérmar Breton Rosé NV

January 29, 2020 jamiegoode 5924 Views champagne

I bumped into this grower Champagne, Gérmar Breton, previously unknown to me, at the Mampuku restaurant in Bordeaux. It was

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Champagne Highlights 

Highlights : Champagne Rémi Leroy NV Brut Nature

January 5, 2020January 12, 2020 Treve Ring 9210 Views champagne, grower champagne

Based in the Aube, which shares the same Portlandian and Kimmeridgian limestone soils as Chablis just further south, young Rémi

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Champagne Regions 

In Champagne : Pierre Gimonnet et Fils

December 18, 2019June 9, 2024 Treve Ring 15174 Views champagne, grower champagne

‘At Gimonnet we are atypical for many reasons,’ says Didier Gimonnet, third generation grower and producer. ‘The first is because

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Champagne Latest TOP STORIES 

In Champagne: Louis Roederer

December 15, 2019December 16, 2019 jamiegoode 13077 Views champagne

Roederer is an elite house famous for their prestige cuvée, Cristal. But the real story here is a house that

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Champagne Profiles Regions 

Visiting Champagne Jacques Selosse, with Anselme Selosse

March 24, 2015January 19, 2020 jamiegoode 7679 Views champagne

Selosse is different. And brilliant. It was great to be able to visit this celebrated grower, who in turn has

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Features

Revisiting the brilliant low-intervention wines of Espera, from Portugal’s Lisboa region
Features Latest Portugal 

Revisiting the brilliant low-intervention wines of Espera, from Portugal’s Lisboa region

July 15, 2026July 15, 2026 jamiegoode

Website: https://www.esperawines.pt/en-gb Espera is a natural wine producer based in Alcobaça, in the Lisboa wine region of Portugal. Soils here are

Exploring speciality coffee and its parallels with fine wine: planning for the future, looking at new coffee varieties
Brazil coffee Features Latest Sponsored content 

Exploring speciality coffee and its parallels with fine wine: planning for the future, looking at new coffee varieties

July 14, 2026July 14, 2026 jamiegoode
Exploring speciality coffee and its parallels with fine wine: regenerative farming in coffee production at the Sombra agroforestry project at Fazenda Mió in Brazil
Brazil coffee Features Latest Sponsored content 

Exploring speciality coffee and its parallels with fine wine: regenerative farming in coffee production at the Sombra agroforestry project at Fazenda Mió in Brazil

July 14, 2026July 14, 2026 jamiegoode
Sensory assessment of coffee, with parallels to wine tasting: cupping, grading and describing, with Dr Fabiana Carvalho
coffee Features Latest Sponsored content 

Sensory assessment of coffee, with parallels to wine tasting: cupping, grading and describing, with Dr Fabiana Carvalho

July 14, 2026July 14, 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.

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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