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  • Rabasco: beautiful natural wines from Abruzzo, Italy
  • With these twelve wines, Juampi Michellini, Matias Riccitelli, Rafael Urreloja and Derek Mossman Knapp illustrate Argentina and Chile’s precocious ability to express the best in any variety 
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Madeira

The wines of Antonio macanita from madeira and porto santo
Features Latest Portugal 

Profetas e dos Villões: António Maçanita and his remarkable wines from Porto Santo and Madeira

October 20, 2026October 20, 2026 jamiegoode 882 Views Madeira

Website: https://www.antoniomacanita.com/en António Maçanita is a well known Portuguese winemaker, doing good things in the Alentejo, Douro and the Açores.

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Features Portugal 

Justino’s Projects, Madeira, Portugal

July 21, 2025July 2, 2026 jamiegoode 2348 Views Madeira

This was a really interesting chance to try some special Project wines from Madeira producer Justino’s. The wines were tasted

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Features Portugal TOP STORIES 

The remarkable wines of Barbeito, the leading producer from Madeira

January 24, 2025September 28, 2025 jamiegoode 6732 Views Madeira

Ricardo Freitas is a third generation Madeira producer, and his family firm Barbeito is widely regarded as the top producer

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Features Latest Portugal 

Port and Madeira: a fortified discussion with Niepoort and Barbeito

December 22, 2023December 22, 2023 jamiegoode 5009 Views Madeira, Port

As part of the program at the 2023 Arlberg Weinberg festival, sommelier Amanda Wassmer-Bulgin compered this session with Ricardo Freitas

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Features Latest 

Tasting top fortified wines blind: the 2023 Best Bottle Award in Lech am Arlberg, Austria

December 12, 2023December 12, 2023 jamiegoode 4050 Views fortified, Madeira, Port, sherry

Best Bottle Award 2023, Restaurant Fux, Lech am Arlberg, Austria Part of the Arlberg Weinberg festival, this is the fourth

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Highlights: Barbeito Vinhas de Lanço Vedelho 2020 DOP Madeirense, Portugal

February 27, 2023February 27, 2023 jamiegoode 4058 Views Madeira

Here I’m tasting Barbeito Vinhas de Lanço Vedelho 2020 which is a table wine made from Madeira grapes by the

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Features

Celebrating 25 years of Filipa Pato’s wines with an amazing lunch and tasting
Features Latest Portugal Regions TOP STORIES 

Celebrating 25 years of Filipa Pato’s wines with an amazing lunch and tasting

October 30, 2026October 30, 2026 jamiegoode

Flipa Pato, daughter of famous Bairrada winegrower Luis Pato, first started making her own wines 25 years ago, in 2001.

Rabasco: beautiful natural wines from Abruzzo, Italy
Features Italy Latest 

Rabasco: beautiful natural wines from Abruzzo, Italy

October 28, 2026October 28, 2026 jamiegoode
With these twelve wines, Juampi Michellini, Matias Riccitelli, Rafael Urreloja and Derek Mossman Knapp illustrate Argentina and Chile’s precocious ability to express the best in any variety 
Argentina Chile Features Latest 

With these twelve wines, Juampi Michellini, Matias Riccitelli, Rafael Urreloja and Derek Mossman Knapp illustrate Argentina and Chile’s precocious ability to express the best in any variety 

October 26, 2026October 26, 2026 Lisse Garnett
Three wines from a new producer in Oxfordshire (UK): Yew Tree Vineyard
England Features Latest 

Three wines from a new producer in Oxfordshire (UK): Yew Tree Vineyard

October 24, 2026October 24, 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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