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Features 

Does a producer have any rights to their wines, once they have sold them?

June 22, 2020 jamiegoode 10122 Views Natural wine

I recently wrote a piece for Little Wine about the grey market for wine, and how this has started to

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Profiles South Africa 

Johan Meyer and his new home in the Swartland – some of South Africa’s top natural wines

June 16, 2020October 7, 2020 jamiegoode 14625 Views Natural wine, swartland

Johan Meyer, known affectionately by everyone as Stompie, is one of the leading natural winegrowers in South Africa. He’s been

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Highlights: Anne et Jean-François Ganevat Kopin 2018 France

June 15, 2020June 15, 2020 jamiegoode 10544 Views Natural wine

Ganevat is one of my favourite producers, and this is one of their negociant wines – an interesting blend combining

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Austria Highlights Latest 

Highlights: Heinrich Weisze Freyheit 2017 Österreich

June 3, 2020June 4, 2020 jamiegoode 7086 Views Natural wine

Heinrich are one of the top producers in Austria’s Burgenland wine region. They farm in the Leithaberg region, biodynamically. This

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Features Videos 

Can big companies make natural wines? Cramele Recas and their orange and glou glou wines

April 28, 2020May 15, 2020 jamiegoode 10749 Views Natural wine, Romania

Can a big company make natural wine? Cramele Recas is a forward-thinking winery in Romania that makes 25 million bottles.

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Highlights Jura 

Highlights: a duo from star Jura producer Domaine Labet

March 9, 2020April 23, 2020 Treve Ring 11904 Views Chardonnay, Jura, Natural wine

The Labet family of Rotalier in the area south of Lons-le-Saunier, known as the Sud Revermont, have been making thoughtful

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Italy Profiles 

Vigneti Tardis, natural wines from Campania, Italy

March 8, 2020April 23, 2020 jamiegoode 9998 Views Campania, Natural wine

This is a collaborative winery. One of the partners is Jack Lewens of Shoreditch Michelin-starred restaurant Leroy, and the other

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Highlights Japan 

Highlight: Domaine Hase Pino Fin Blanc 2018, Nagano, Japan

March 3, 2020April 23, 2020 jamiegoode 6465 Views Natural wine

This comes from a small winery high up (800 m) in Nagano that I visited last year. I tasted this

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Highlights from Millésime Bio & around Montpellier

February 26, 2020March 5, 2020 Treve Ring 6347 Views biodynamic, Natural wine, Organics, trade

As Goode tidily wrote up, 2020 saw the 27th edition of Millésime Bio, the world’s largest organic wine fair. We crossed

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Latest Portugal Videos 

Simplesmente Vinho 2020

February 24, 2020February 24, 2020 jamiegoode 6685 Views Natural wine

In this short interview, organizer João Roseira talks about Simplesmente Vinho 2020, the wine festival for ‘wines without make-up’, held

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Pounding Grape: the exciting wines of Chris Groenewald, from South Africa
Features Latest South Africa 

Pounding Grape: the exciting wines of Chris Groenewald, from South Africa

August 12, 2026August 12, 2026 jamiegoode

Back in 2014 one of South Africa’s most interesting, and probably quirkiest wine projects was born, a collaboration between Michael

The new releases from Radford Dale, including Elgin and Vinum bottlings from 2025
Features Latest Profiles Regions South Africa 

The new releases from Radford Dale, including Elgin and Vinum bottlings from 2025

August 10, 2026August 10, 2026 jamiegoode
Unusual grape varieties: a tasting at Shrine to the Vine
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Unusual grape varieties: a tasting at Shrine to the Vine

August 9, 2026August 11, 2026 jamiegoode
Minimalist Wines, the exciting South African Syrah-focused winery of Sam Lambson
Features Latest Regions South Africa 

Minimalist Wines, the exciting South African Syrah-focused winery of Sam Lambson

August 8, 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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