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Giant Steps, Yarra Valley: Australia’s winery of the year launches the first wines from the remarkable Bastard Hill vineyard

August 21, 2024June 5, 2025 jamiegoode 9410 Views Chardonnay, pinot noir, Yarra Valley

Website: https://www.giantstepswine.com.au/ Giant Steps is a Yarra Valley winery that’s currently in the spotlight, winning the 2025 Halliday Guide Winery

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Features New Zealand 

Hawke’s Bay Chardonnay: a top 12 from the 2022 vintage in this important New Zealand wine region

August 7, 2024June 5, 2025 jamiegoode 3301 Views Chardonnay, Hawke's Bay

These Chardonnays were selected by Cameron Douglas, MS, as the Hawke’s Bay Annual Chardonnay Collection Vintage 2022. 42 wines submitted,

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Canada Features Latest 

In Niagara (7) Domaine Le Clos Jordanne, Burgundy meets Canada

June 29, 2024June 29, 2024 jamiegoode 3709 Views Chardonnay, Niagara, pinot noir

Website: https://www.leclosjordanne.com/ Le Clos Jordanne began in 2000 as a prestige, vineyard-focused Pinot Noir and Chardonnay project. It was a

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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 5699 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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The wines of Giant Steps, Yarra Valley and Tasmania, Australia

April 22, 2024May 21, 2024 jamiegoode 5939 Views Chardonnay, pinot noir, Yarra Valley

Website: https://www.giantstepswine.com.au/ It’s a new era for Yarra Valley winery Giant Steps. It was recently purchased by Jackson Family Wines,

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California Features Latest 

The wines of Kistler: high-end Chardonnay and Pinot Noir from Sonoma, California

February 8, 2024 jamiegoode 4023 Views Chardonnay, pinot noir

Website: https://www.kistlervineyards.com/ Kistler is a highly regarded producer of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir from Sonoma in California. Founded in 1978,

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Burgundy Features Latest TOP STORIES 

Bourgogne (Burgundy) 2022: a surprising and beautiful vintage

January 25, 2024 jamiegoode 13290 Views Chardonnay, pinot noir

Each year in January, the UK wine trade has a Bourgogne week. Except, we still call it Burgundy week. The

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Features Latest New Zealand Regions 

The Hawke’s Bay Chardonnay collection 2021 vintage: some of New Zealand’s best Chardonnays

December 26, 2023 jamiegoode 3917 Views Chardonnay, Hawke's Bay

Hawke’s Bay has a had a good run of recent vintages, despite the awful floods that hit in February 2023,

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Burgundy Highlights 

Highlights: Domaine de la Cras Bourgogne Blanc Coteaux de Dijon 2017

October 1, 2023March 5, 2024 jamiegoode 3882 Views Chardonnay

A superb white Bourgogne that I bought a few years ago, drinking brilliantly now. Domaine de la Cras Marc Soyard

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Features South Africa 

Capensis: high-end Chardonnay from South Africa that’s re-setting the bar

June 27, 2023January 16, 2024 jamiegoode 6240 Views Chardonnay

Website: https://www.capensiswines.com/za Back in 2013 the Jackson Family were looking to begin a wine project in South Africa. The idea

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Saravá, innovative low-intervention wines from Vinho Verde and Douro, Portugal
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Saravá, innovative low-intervention wines from Vinho Verde and Douro, Portugal

December 2, 2025December 2, 2025 jamiegoode

Website: https://www.galactic.wine/ Miguel Viseu is the winemaker at low-intervention wine producer Aphros in Vinho Verde, but he also has his

Wine marketing: don’t mistake choice for preference
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Wine marketing: don’t mistake choice for preference

November 30, 2025November 30, 2025 jamiegoode
At Staffelter Hof in the Mosel, Jan-Matthias Klein has taken a bet on resistant varieties, vitisforestry and natural wine, and it’s working out
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At Staffelter Hof in the Mosel, Jan-Matthias Klein has taken a bet on resistant varieties, vitisforestry and natural wine, and it’s working out

November 28, 2025November 29, 2025 jamiegoode
Amphora wine day, celebrating wines made in clay, part 2
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Amphora wine day, celebrating wines made in clay, part 2

November 26, 2025November 26, 2025 jamiegoode

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