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Highlights: Clos des Fous Pour Ma Gueule Riesling 2018 Itata, Chile

November 3, 2025November 3, 2025 jamiegoode 875 Views Itata

So I’ve just arrived in Santiago, Chile, and time for lunch at Hotel Magnolia while they prepare my room. Starting

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Dry-grown Chile: exploring Itata, a historic region whose time has now come

March 3, 2024May 21, 2024 jamiegoode 11342 Views Itata

The modern era of Chilean wine has been defined by French grape varieties: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Carmenère, Chardonnay and Sauvignon

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Video: visiting the historically important Itata region of Chile, which is undergoing a quiet revival

October 17, 2023October 19, 2023 jamiegoode 5144 Views Itata

Jamie Goode heads down south in Chile to the Itata wine region, which was historically very important and which is

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Highlights: two Itata wines from Dominio del Cuarzo

May 4, 2023 jamiegoode 5802 Views Cinsault, Itata, Pais

Felipe Ramirez has a lot of experience making wine around the world, including the Rhône, Burgundy and Oregon, as well

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Highlights: A País Pair from southern Chile’s Carter Mollenhauer

April 4, 2022May 15, 2022 Treve Ring 4718 Views Itata, Old vines, País

Karine and her husband, Edgar Mollenhauer run their family winery in the Maule, making a few small-production wines from indigenous

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Highlights: De Martino Viejas Tinajas Cinsault 2020, Itata, Chile

February 14, 2022February 24, 2022 Treve Ring 5848 Views Amphora, Itata

This wine really launched De Martino, and Itata, on the world wine map when the first vintage in 2011 was

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2025, a wine year in pictures
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2025, a wine year in pictures

January 1, 2026January 1, 2026 jamiegoode

Here’s a selection of pictures from 2025. Quite a year.

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Champagne Features Latest 

A mini-Champagne study: Ayala, Bollinger, Albert Lebrun, Forget Brimont

January 1, 2026January 1, 2026 jamiegoode
Exploring the Roussillon (5) Torredemer Mangin
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Exploring the Roussillon (5) Torredemer Mangin

December 31, 2025December 31, 2025 jamiegoode
Failla Wines: beautiful site-specific wines from some of northern California’s best vineyards
California Features Latest 

Failla Wines: beautiful site-specific wines from some of northern California’s best vineyards

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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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