Skip to content
Thursday, October 30, 2025
Latest:
  • Highlights: Cloudy Bay Sauvignon Blanc 2025 Marlborough, New Zealand
  • Video: the Port harvest in the Douro, 2025, with Taylor’s
  • Cruse x Hirsch, tasting some Californian gems from this star partnership
  • Hatzidakis: a deep dive into these top Santorini wines
  • Yarra Valley (5) Yarra Yering
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

Australia Food and wine Latest 

Restaurants: Pastel Wine Bar, Adelaide, Australia – superb food meets a good wine list in a nice setting

July 27, 2025July 27, 2025 jamiegoode 1398 Views Adelaide Hills, McLaren Vale, Restaurants

Website: https://pastel.bar/ On my first night in Australia, after a drink at East End Cellars, I headed over to Pastel

Read more
Food and wine Greece Israel Latest 

Restaurants: Balabaya, London, amazing flavours of the Levant

July 21, 2025 jamiegoode 1223 Views Restaurants

Website: https://balabaya.co.uk/ Lunched at Balabaya, a really impressive restaurant in the Israeli/middle eastern flavour space – a cuisine that I’m

Read more
Features Food and wine 

Restaurants: The Palomar, Soho, London

July 17, 2025 jamiegoode 1606 Views Restaurants

The Palomar combines excellent food with a well chosen, interesting wine list. The Palomar is part of the Studio Paskin

Read more
Canada Food and wine Latest 

Restaurants: Elma, Pencticton, BC, Canada

July 12, 2025July 12, 2025 jamiegoode 1288 Views Restaurants

Website: https://eatatelma.com/ If you are heading to Canada’s Okanagan wine region, then there’s one restaurant I highly recommend. It’s Elma,

Read more
England Food and wine Latest 

Restaurants: Angela’s, Margate

June 17, 2025June 17, 2025 jamiegoode 1305 Views Restaurants

Website: https://angelasofmargate.com/ Margate is a seaside town on the Kent coast, and it’s new nickname is Shoreditch on Sea. Why?

Read more
Food and wine Latest 

Restaurants: Nopalito, San Francisco

June 6, 2025June 6, 2025 jamiegoode 881 Views Restaurants

Website: https://www.nopalitosf.com/ One great advantage that San Francisco (and the rest of California) has over London is the availability of

Read more
Features Food and wine 

Who would want to be a restaurant reviewer? Why it is a horrible gig

November 3, 2024April 25, 2025 jamiegoode 2277 Views Restaurants

Some people think that being a restaurant reviewer for a well recognized publication must be a great job. You get

Read more
Food and wine 

Restaurants: Brat, Shoreditch (London)

October 30, 2024April 25, 2025 jamiegoode 7148 Views Restaurants

Website: https://bratrestaurant.co.uk/redchurch-st/ I’ve been a few times to Brat, but not as often I should have been to this Michelin

Read more
Food and wine 

Restaurants: Sargasso, Margate (Kent, UK)

October 25, 2024April 25, 2025 jamiegoode 2404 Views Natural wine, Restaurants

Website: https://www.sargasso.bar/ This is an absolute gem. If you live in London, get yourself a booking here, take the (fairly

Read more
Food and wine 

Dosa at Mandarin Oriental: a new chef’s table opens in London, with a Korean theme and a strong wine emphasis

September 23, 2024October 17, 2024 jamiegoode 5820 Views Restaurants

Website: https://www.mandarinoriental.com/en/london/mayfair/dine/dosa Akira Back is the name behind the Japanese-themed restaurant at the new Mandarin Oriental in Hanover Square, Mayfair,

Read more
  • ← Previous
  • Next →

Features

Cruse x Hirsch, tasting some Californian gems from this star partnership
California Features Latest 

Cruse x Hirsch, tasting some Californian gems from this star partnership

October 28, 2025October 29, 2025 jamiegoode

Californians Jasmine Hirsch and Michael Cruse are partners in life and wine, and they came to London to share their

Hatzidakis: a deep dive into these top Santorini wines
Features Greece Latest 

Hatzidakis: a deep dive into these top Santorini wines

October 27, 2025 jamiegoode
Yarra Valley (5) Yarra Yering
Australia Features Latest 

Yarra Valley (5) Yarra Yering

October 25, 2025October 26, 2025 jamiegoode
Tarrawarra winery, Yarra Valley
Australia Features Latest 

Yarra (3) Tarrawarra

October 25, 2025October 26, 2025 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 © 2025 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