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Gigondas

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Gigondas: a major tasting of the 2022s

July 5, 2024July 5, 2024 jamiegoode 7035 Views Gigondas

This was a major tasting of Gigondas reds. The new whites (which are allowed in the appellation as of 2023)

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Gigondas: Domaine Santa Duc, one of the appellation’s star producers

June 24, 2024March 28, 2025 jamiegoode 5203 Views Gigondas

Website: https://www.santaduc.fr/en/ Benjamin Gras hosted me at Santa Duc, which is located on the higher plain of Gigondas at 150

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Gigondas: Domaine des Bousquets

June 18, 2024March 28, 2025 jamiegoode 5082 Views Gigondas

I tasted these wines over dinner with Julien Bréchet (pictured above) of Domaine des Bosquets. He took over the family

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Gigondas: Domaine des Florets, a new ecologically focused domaine

June 18, 2024August 25, 2024 jamiegoode 3970 Views Gigondas

Website: https://www.domainedesflorets.com/en/home Jérôme Rathle was an environmental consultant, and had worked for he world’s largest specialist sustainability consultancy, ERM, until

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Gigondas: Pierre Amadieu

June 18, 2024August 25, 2024 jamiegoode 4434 Views Gigondas

Website: https://www.pierre-amadieu.com/en/ Pierre Amadieu is an important producer in Gigondas, with around 10% of the appellation’s vineyard area. They have

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Gigondas: Saint Cosme, with Louis Barruol

June 17, 2024March 28, 2025 jamiegoode 4523 Views Gigondas

Website: https://www.saintcosme.com/ Louis Barruol of Château Saint Cosme is one of the presidents of the Gigondas appellation, and he’s making

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

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