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In Niagara (7) Thomas Bachelder: top Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Gamay from Canada’s Niagara region

November 1, 2022November 30, 2022 jamiegoode 6321 Views Chardonnay, pinot noir

Website: https://bachelderniagara.com/ Tasting with Thomas Bachelder is a remarkable experience. He has an innate curiosity and knowledge of wine that

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Growing wines in Chile’s northern desert: 10 years of the Tara Atacama project from Ventisquero

September 23, 2022 jamiegoode 7504 Views Chardonnay, pinot noir

Tara is a remarkable wine project in Chile’s Atacama desert. Jamie Goode tastes through the first 10 years of this

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Californian Pinot Noir: 38 wines tasted and rated

September 13, 2022September 13, 2022 jamiegoode 6715 Views pinot noir

California is one of the most exciting destinations globally for Pinot Noir. But it’s only a subset of the state’s

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Highlights: two lovely Kiwi Pinot Noirs from Fromm and Neudorf

September 7, 2022September 13, 2022 jamiegoode 3611 Views pinot noir

Here are two New Zealand Pinot Noirs that offered a lot of pleasure opened a couple of years after release.

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Elgin Pinot Noir: how is Pinot doing in this cool-climate South African region?

September 6, 2022 jamiegoode 6795 Views Elgin, pinot noir

Elgin is one of South Africa’s cool climate wine regions. This apple-growing area first began growing wine grapes in the

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England Highlights 

Highlights: Lyme Bay Winery Pinot Noir 2020 Essex, England

January 18, 2022February 11, 2022 jamiegoode 5722 Views pinot noir

This is an impressive Pinot Noir showing the still wine potential of the Crouch Valley in Essex. It’s sourced from

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Highlights: No Man is an Island Chambolle Musigny 2014

September 7, 2021September 7, 2021 jamiegoode 5671 Views pinot noir

This is a charity wine: it’s produced by Mischief and Mayhem, in collaboration with The Sourcing Table (I declare an

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Pinot Noir mini study: eight wines tasted for Pinot Noir day

August 18, 2021October 1, 2021 jamiegoode 7335 Views pinot noir

Pinot Noir is one of my favourite grape varieties. It’s capable of elegance and beauty, and often delivers this. But

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England Highlights 

Highlights: two innovative wines from Litmus, England

June 9, 2021June 13, 2021 jamiegoode 3881 Views orange wine, pinot noir

Impressed by these two quite innovative wines from Litmus Wines, a winemaking consultancy based at Denbies winery in Surrey. Litmus

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Ageing Pinot: four top examples of Willamette Valley Pinot Noir from the 2014 vintage

May 5, 2021 jamiegoode 6477 Views pinot noir

These were wines I tasted as part of a virtual 2021 IPNC masterclass on ageing Pinot Noir. Present were wine

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Wine marketing: don’t mistake choice for preference

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At Staffelter Hof in the Mosel, Jan-Matthias Klein has taken a bet on resistant varieties, vitisforestry and natural wine, and it’s working out
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At Staffelter Hof in the Mosel, Jan-Matthias Klein has taken a bet on resistant varieties, vitisforestry and natural wine, and it’s working out

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Amphora wine day, celebrating wines made in clay, part 2
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Amphora wine day, celebrating wines made in clay, part 2

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The amphora wine day at Rocim in Portugal's Alentejo wine region
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Amphora wine day, celebrating wines made in clay, part 1

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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.

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