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Exploring the Hunter Valley (3) Margan

August 19, 2026August 19, 2026 jamiegoode 855 Views hunter valley

Website: https://www.margan.com.au/ Margan is an important Hunter Valley producer making some very interesting wines, and championing newer varieties that show

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Exploring the Hunter Valley (2) judging the Hunter Valley Wine Show

August 19, 2026August 19, 2026 jamiegoode 826 Views hunter valley

Tell your friends that you’ve just been in the Hunter Valley judging 80 wines a day with nice people, they’ll

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Exploring the Hunter Valley, Australia’s oldest wine region (1) introduction

August 19, 2026 jamiegoode 1096 Views hunter valley

It was almost 200 years ago, in 1828, when the Hunter Valley became a wine region. It’s the oldest in

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Herrenhof Lamprecht: impressive wines from volcanic Styria, with a particular focus on Furmint and field blends
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Herrenhof Lamprecht: impressive wines from volcanic Styria, with a particular focus on Furmint and field blends

October 18, 2026October 18, 2026 jamiegoode

Website: https://www.herrenhof.net/ Back in the day, Herrenhof Lamprecht, now a wine estate in Vulkanland Steiermark (Austria) was a monastery. There’s

Santuvario, a natural wine producer in Alto Piemonte, Italy
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Santuvario, a natural wine producer in Alto Piemonte, Italy

October 16, 2026 jamiegoode
Otrepò Pavese Classese: tasting through a large range of these impressive Pinot Noir-based sparkling wines from northwest Italy
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Otrepò Pavese Classese: tasting through a large range of these impressive Pinot Noir-based sparkling wines from northwest Italy

October 15, 2026October 15, 2026 jamiegoode
Hazendal, a Stellenbosch wine estate transformed
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Hazendal, a Stellenbosch wine estate transformed

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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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