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Video: tasting the Kin 2023 Grenache from Alkina in the Barossa Valley

May 6, 2025 jamiegoode 559 Views Grenache

Tasting the Kin Grenache 2023 from Barossa Valley star winery Alkina who have developed a micro-parcel approach to their vineyard

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Highlights: MMAD Grenache 2022 Blewitt Springs, McLaren Vale

November 14, 2024April 25, 2025 jamiegoode 864 Views Grenache, McLaren Vale

Tried this wine with a few wine folk after dinner last night and was really impressed. From the Shaw &

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Highlights: Comando G Navatalgordo 2022

September 19, 2024March 29, 2025 jamiegoode 2060 Views Grenache

One of the heroes of the new Spain wine scene is Comando G. Read more about them in this excellent

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Visiting Yangarra, a star producer in Australia’s McLaren Vale

September 10, 2024March 29, 2025 jamiegoode 2369 Views Grenache, McLaren Vale

Website: https://www.yangarra.com/ The story of Yangarra nicely tracks with the revival of Grenache as a key variety in Australia, where

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Highlights South Africa 

Highlights: Kelvin Feku Grenache Noir 2022, WO Wellington, South Africa

May 1, 2024July 20, 2024 Treve Ring 3521 Views Grenache

Kelvin Feku is Alex Milner’s (of Natte Valleij) assistant winemaker, and this is the first release under his own label.

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Features Rhone 

Domaine des Escaravailles, a southern Rhône star

March 14, 2024May 21, 2024 jamiegoode 4781 Views Cairanne, Grenache, Rasteau

Website: https://www.domaine-escaravailles.com/en/ Escaravilles means bettle in Occitan, hence the scarb beetle on the label. I tasted these wines with Madeline

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duncan savage thief in the night
Features Latest South Africa 

Highlight: Savage Thief in the Night Grenache 2022 Piekenierskloof 

December 30, 2023December 30, 2023 jamiegoode 2187 Views Grenache

Grenache is a grape with lots of potential in South Africa, and one of the regions doing well with it

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Features 

Grenache mini-study: California, Spain and France

April 3, 2023April 23, 2023 jamiegoode 2988 Views Grenache

Grenache is having its moment! It’s drought resistance, crops well, doesn’t mind heat and can perform well as either a

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Highlights Latest South Africa 

Highlights: Bosman Nature & Sun Grenache Noir 2020 Wellington, South Africa

December 11, 2022 jamiegoode 5217 Views Grenache, Wellington

Saw this on the shelf in Waitrose Canary Wharf today and it caught my eye. Supermarket ranges are so big

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Grenache : a Study

September 8, 2022September 13, 2022 Treve Ring 5155 Views Garnacha, Grenache

(/ɡrəˈnæʃ/) Grenache is one of the most widely planted red wine grapes planted on the globe, which would explain the

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Nigel Greening on navigating the tricky waters wine finds itself in, and the problems with ‘fine wine’: where does Felton Road sit?

June 12, 2025June 12, 2025 jamiegoode

Back in February 2025 I attended the Pinot Noir 2025 conference in Christchurch, New Zealand. As well as some great

The wines of Muxagat, from Portugal’s Douro region
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The wines of Muxagat, from Portugal’s Douro region

June 12, 2025June 12, 2025 jamiegoode
New releases from Savage, one of South Africa’s very top producers
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New releases from Savage, one of South Africa’s very top producers

June 11, 2025June 11, 2025 jamiegoode
Gonçalves Faria: serious, classic Bairrada wines, now under the Niepoort stable
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Gonçalves Faria: serious, classic Bairrada wines, now under the Niepoort stable

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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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