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Restaurants: Honey & Co Bloomsbury, London

February 25, 2024February 25, 2024 jamiegoode 3515 Views Restaurants

Website: https://honeyandco.co.uk/places/honey-co/ Just opposite Noble Rot in Lambs Conduit Street, Honey & Co is a really good restaurant offering middle

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Chianti Classico deep dive (5) dinner at Salefino Vino & Cucina in Siena

January 19, 2024January 19, 2024 jamiegoode 3441 Views Chianti Classico, Restaurants

Website: https://salefino-siena.com/vino-e-cucina/ This was my first time in Siena, which is simply stunning. It’s almost entirely unspoiled, and is very

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Restaurants: Post and Pepper, Stellenbosch

January 15, 2024January 15, 2024 jamiegoode 4075 Views Restaurants

Website: https://postandpepper.co.za/ This was one of the gastronomic highlights of a recent trip to South Africa, where we spent a

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Restaurants: Gymkhana, London

January 14, 2024January 14, 2024 jamiegoode 8376 Views Restaurants

Restaurants: Gymkhana Website: https://gymkhanalondon.com/ I first visited Gymkhana back in September 2014, about a year after it opened. This was

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Restaurants: Plateau, Brighton

January 5, 2024 jamiegoode 2512 Views Restaurants

Website: https://www.plateaubrighton.co.uk/ Plateau is one of those restaurants that I love to eat at. A lunch today, on a bright

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Restaurants: Rubens, Franschhoek, South Africa

November 22, 2023 jamiegoode 3468 Views Restaurants

Website: https://www.reubens.co.za/ Franschhoek, in South Africa’s Western Cape, is a beautiful destination. With mountains every way you look, this valley

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A wine dinner at Brawn, London, with some lovely wines

November 11, 2023June 8, 2025 jamiegoode 3214 Views Restaurants

Website: https://www.brawn.co/ I hadn’t been to Brawn, a neighbourhood restaurant on Columbia Road in Bethnal Green, for ages. So it

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Highlights: Dinner at Les Caves Madeleine, Beaune, with two exceptional Aligotés

October 5, 2023 jamiegoode 5236 Views Aligote, Restaurants

Website: https://cavesmadeleine.com/ If you are heading to Beaune, two things you must do before travelling: make a reservation at La

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Highlights: Mullineux and Sadie at Noble Rot Mayfair

September 29, 2023March 5, 2024 jamiegoode 3269 Views Restaurants, swartland

Had a lovely lunch this week at Noble Rot Mayfair, the third restuarant in the Noble Rot franchise after Lambs

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Burgundy Highlights 

Highlights: Ganevat Cuvée Madelon at La Dilettante in Beaune

August 21, 2023July 21, 2025 jamiegoode 4765 Views Restaurants

Beaune is a great town to stay in, and one of the highlights for drinking good wine is La Dilettante.

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Heinrich: beautiful naturally inclined wines from Austria’s Burgenland region
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Heinrich: beautiful naturally inclined wines from Austria’s Burgenland region

December 8, 2025December 8, 2025 jamiegoode

Heinrich is one of Austria’s most interesting producers. Based in Burgenland, they successfully negociated a style change in 2014 and

The impressive wines of Herdade do Rocim and its associated projects, among Portugal’s best
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The impressive wines of Herdade do Rocim and its associated projects, among Portugal’s best

December 7, 2025December 7, 2025 jamiegoode
Slovenia: Edi Simčič, one of the stars of Brda
Features Latest Slovenia 

Slovenia: Edi Simčič, one of the stars of Brda

December 6, 2025December 6, 2025 jamiegoode
Slovenia: Bjana is an exciting sparkling wine project in Brda
Features Latest Slovenia 

Slovenia: Bjana is an exciting sparkling wine project in Brda

December 5, 2025December 5, 2025 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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