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Grenache

Features Rhone 

Domaine des Escaravailles, a southern Rhône star

March 14, 2024May 21, 2024 jamiegoode 7187 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 3363 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 4307 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 6638 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 7275 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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Highlights Latest Spain 

Highlight : Las Moradas de San Martin Libro Once Las Luces 2011, Sierra de Gredos, Spain

August 19, 2022August 25, 2022 Treve Ring 4659 Views Garnacha, granite, Gredos, Grenache, old vine

Las Moradas de San Martin sits at a height of 870m above sea level, on the fringes of the Sierra

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Highlights Latest Spain 

Highlights: El Hombre Bala 2015 Vinos de Madrid, Spain

January 9, 2022 jamiegoode 5532 Views Grenache

Gotta love infusion-style Garnacha from Gredos! This is a good one. I bought this bottle a few years ago at

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Australia Features Profiles 

Top McLaren Vale Grenache from Thistledown

September 25, 2021September 26, 2021 jamiegoode 5886 Views Grenache, McLaren Vale

Website: https://www.thistledownwines.com/ McLaren Vale Grenache is a success story at the moment. Many people have discovered that if you make

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Highlights Latest South Africa 

Highlights: Chasing Rabbits Grenache 2020 Wellington, South Africa

March 13, 2021March 14, 2021 jamiegoode 7452 Views Grenache

This is a lovely lighter-styled red wine from young Grenache vines in Wellington. It’s a collaborative wine, made jointly by

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Highlights Spain 

Highlights: Terroir Sense Fronteres Guix Vermell de Montsant 2019

March 8, 2021June 8, 2021 jamiegoode 6535 Views Grenache

Terroir Sense Fronteres is the Montsant operation of fabled Priorat producer Terroir Al Limit (which was started by Dominik Huber

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Canada’s Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys (13) Pamplemousse Jus
Canada Features Latest 

Canada’s Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys (13) Pamplemousse Jus

August 31, 2026 jamiegoode

Website: https://www.pamplemoussejus.ca/ We need more wineries like this! Pamplemousse Jus is a small winery based on a farm in the

Restaurants: Singburi, amazing Thai food in Shoreditch, London, and a short but great wine list
Features Food and wine Latest 

Restaurants: Singburi, amazing Thai food in Shoreditch, London, and a short but great wine list

August 29, 2026August 29, 2026 jamiegoode
Canada’s Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys (12) Haywire and Garnet Valley Ranch
Canada Features Latest 

Canada’s Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys (12) Haywire and Garnet Valley Ranch

August 27, 2026August 27, 2026 jamiegoode
Canada’s Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys (11) Solvero in Garnet Valley
Canada Features Highlights 

Canada’s Okanagan and Similkameen Valleys (11) Solvero in Garnet Valley

August 27, 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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