Skip to content
Monday, January 19, 2026
Latest:
  • 2016, looking back a decade from 2026
  • Highlights: Sandrine Henriot Régnié Lachat 2022 Beaujolais, France
  • Gallo, the world’s largest wine company, has three insanely large wineries in California
  • Highlights: Sommer Blaufränkisch 2020 Leithaberg, Burgenland, Austria
  • Judith Beck is making some impressive natural wines in Austria’s Burgenland
wineanorak.com

wineanorak.com

online wine magazine

  • blog
    • Jamie Goode’s Wine Blog
    • My old blog: 2006-2010
  • Videos
  • Regions
  • New to wine
  • Profiles
  • Food and wine
  • Features
  • Travel
  • Wine Science
  • Highlights

Restaurants

Food and wine South Africa 

A remarkable multicourse meal at Creation, a leading winery in South Africa’s Hemel-en-Aarde wine region

January 6, 2026January 6, 2026 jamiegoode 425 Views Restaurants

Website: https://www.creationwines.com/activities/ Creation is an impressive winery in the Hemel-en-Aarde wine region of South Africa. Head along the coast to

Read more
Food and wine Latest 

Meals of the year, 2025: 16 of my favourite dining experiences

December 27, 2025 jamiegoode 673 Views Restaurants

I love restaurants. I know: I spend too much of my income eating and drinking. I approach gastronomy the way

Read more
Food and wine Latest 

Restaurants: a near perfect lunch at Chez Bruce, Wandsworth Common, London

December 19, 2025 jamiegoode 670 Views Restaurants

Website: https://www.chezbruce.co.uk/ What do you want from a restaurant experience? It really depends. Sometimes you want gastronomic challenge. Sometimes you

Read more
Beaujolais Features Food and wine Latest 

10 Years of Rotters Towers, with food from Vantre (Paris) and lots of Beaujolais

November 21, 2025November 21, 2025 jamiegoode 668 Views Restaurants

Each year Noble Rot Lambs Conduit Street celebrate Beaujolais Nouveau day in style, inviting a guest chef or restaurant to

Read more
Features Food and wine Greece Latest 

Sifnos, the gastronomic Greek island (7) back to Cherinossos and Sifnos Stoneware

November 16, 2025November 16, 2025 jamiegoode 692 Views Restaurants

So the final day. We weren’t catching the ferry until 5 pm, so it was back to Cherinissos for the

Read more
Features Food and wine Greece Latest 

Sifnos, the gastronomic Greek island (5) Chrysopigi Tavern, Faros, Vathi Bay and Manolis 

November 15, 2025November 17, 2025 jamiegoode 801 Views Restaurants

Day 4. Ferries cancelled because of winds. A couple in our accommodation were somewhat distraught because they were due to

Read more
Features Food and wine Greece Latest 

Sifnos, the gastronomic Greek island (4) Kastro and Cantina, Loggia reprise

November 15, 2025November 16, 2025 jamiegoode 767 Views Restaurants

The second day in Kastro. We walk into the village and then take a path down to view the famous

Read more
Features Food and wine Greece Latest TOP STORIES 

Sifnos: a gastronomic journey through the coolest Greek island that you probably haven’t heard of

October 22, 2025November 16, 2025 jamiegoode 2095 Views Restaurants

In his book The Greek House: the story of a painter’s love affair with the island of Sifnos, Christian Brechneff

Read more
Features Food and wine Greece Latest Regions 

Sifnos, the gastronomic Greek island (3): lunch at Omega 3 and Loggia wine bar in Kastro

October 22, 2025November 16, 2025 jamiegoode 1524 Views Restaurants

Day two began with an early morning swim, then we headed off to Platis (sometimes ‘Ptays’) Giallos, where we had

Read more
Features Food and wine Greece Latest 

Sifnos, the gastronomic Greek island (2) Cheronissos, the journey begins, with lunch at Fish Tavern Fyssas

October 22, 2025November 17, 2025 jamiegoode 808 Views Restaurants

Sifnos is a gem. In an age of over-tourism, here’s an island that still feels untouched, although I suspect anyone

Read more
  • ← Previous

Features

2016, looking back a decade from 2026
Features Latest TOP STORIES 

2016, looking back a decade from 2026

January 18, 2026 jamiegoode

2016 was quite a year for me. A transition year with a lot of travel.

Gallo, the world’s largest wine company, has three insanely large wineries in California
California Features Latest 

Gallo, the world’s largest wine company, has three insanely large wineries in California

January 17, 2026January 17, 2026 jamiegoode
Bianka and Daniel Schmitt, making impressive natural wines in Rheinhessen, Germany
Features Germany Latest Profiles 

Bianka and Daniel Schmitt, making impressive natural wines in Rheinhessen, Germany

January 15, 2026January 15, 2026 jamiegoode
Another impressive Swiss producer: Domaine de Montbenay from the Vaud
Features Latest Switzerland 

Another impressive Swiss producer: Domaine de Montbenay from the Vaud

January 13, 2026January 13, 2026 jamiegoode

Regions

  • Champagne
  • Burgundy
  • Bordeaux
  • Douro
  • New Zealand
  • Canada
  • South Africa
  • Australia

About Us

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.

This is an explanation of what an anorak is.

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.

As an Amazon Associate this website earns from qualifying purchases (for example, the links for purchasing books). Wineanorak also earns from Google AdSense display advertising.

You can contact Jamie at drjamiegoode@gmail.com Also, through my accounts at Twitter, Instagram and Mastodon

Country profiles

  • South Africa
  • Canada
  • New Zealand
  • France
  • Spain
  • USA
  • Australia

Contributors

  • Jamie Goode, Chief Anorak
  • Treve Ring, Correspondent Anorak
  • Lisse Garnett, Under Anorak
And here you can SUBSCRIBE to the wineanorak mailing list - once a month updates, with some more private content just for subscribers

My books

Copyright © 2026 wineanorak.com. All rights reserved. Powered by WordPress.
We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it.OkPrivacy policy