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  • Six Portuguese wines that flourished in the 2025 edition of the International Wine Challenge
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Restaurants

Australia Food and wine Latest 

Restaurants: LOC, Adelaide, a small but perfectly formed natural wine bar and restaurant

August 2, 2025 jamiegoode 1939 Views Natural wine, Restaurants

Website: https://locdotcom.au/ There’s something very special and intimate about dining at LOC, a natural wine bar and restaurant in Adelaide.

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Australia Food and wine 

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

July 27, 2025February 12, 2026 jamiegoode 2251 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

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Restaurants: Balabaya, London, amazing flavours of the Levant

July 21, 2025 jamiegoode 1838 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

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Features Food and wine 

Restaurants: The Palomar, Soho, London

July 17, 2025 jamiegoode 2804 Views Restaurants

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

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Canada Food and wine Latest 

Restaurants: Elma, Pencticton, BC, Canada

July 12, 2025July 12, 2025 jamiegoode 1777 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,

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England Food and wine Latest 

Restaurants: Angela’s, Margate

June 17, 2025June 17, 2025 jamiegoode 1926 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?

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Food and wine 

Restaurants: Nopalito, San Francisco

June 6, 2025January 15, 2026 jamiegoode 1541 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

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Features Food and wine 

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

November 3, 2024April 25, 2025 jamiegoode 2904 Views Restaurants

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

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Food and wine 

Restaurants: Brat, Shoreditch (London)

October 30, 2024April 25, 2025 jamiegoode 9695 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

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Food and wine 

Restaurants: Sargasso, Margate (Kent, UK)

October 25, 2024April 25, 2025 jamiegoode 2984 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

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Visiting Black Chalk, tasting current releases and the exciting 2025 base wine blends, at this superb English sparkling wine producer
England Features Latest Profiles 

Visiting Black Chalk, tasting current releases and the exciting 2025 base wine blends, at this superb English sparkling wine producer

March 20, 2026 jamiegoode

Black Chalk are one of the most interesting English sparkling wine producers, and they’ve made some impressive wines since their

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Features Latest South Africa 

Fryer’s Cove: precise wines from the cool west coast of South Africa

March 20, 2026 jamiegoode
Six Portuguese wines that flourished in the 2025 edition of the International Wine Challenge
Features Latest Portugal 

Six Portuguese wines that flourished in the 2025 edition of the International Wine Challenge

March 19, 2026March 20, 2026 jamiegoode
Screwcap damage: how much of a problem is it? For this Henschke Johann’s Garden 2023, not so much
Australia Features Latest 

Screwcap damage: how much of a problem is it? For this Henschke Johann’s Garden 2023, not so much

March 18, 2026March 18, 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.

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.

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