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Food and wine Portugal 

Restaurants: Nuno Mendes’ exceptional Cozinha das Flores in Porto

June 8, 2024October 17, 2024 jamiegoode 10288 Views Restaurants

Website: https://cozinhadasflores.com/ I went twice in two nights to Cozinha das Flores. It was that good. The first time was

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On corkage: should restaurants let you bring your own bottles, and if so, how much should they charge?

June 1, 2024August 25, 2024 jamiegoode 14580 Views Restaurants

Restaurants hardly ever cellar wine these days (it’s far too expensive for most, although there are some noble exceptions). But

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Restaurants: Hunan, London

May 17, 2024July 20, 2024 jamiegoode 5293 Views Restaurants

Hunan is a remarkable restaurant. It’s been a Pimlico institution since 1982, and is widely regarded to be one of

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Food and wine 

Restaurants: Honey & Co Bloomsbury, London

February 25, 2024February 25, 2024 jamiegoode 3723 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 3635 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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Food and wine South Africa 

Restaurants: Post and Pepper, Stellenbosch

January 15, 2024January 15, 2024 jamiegoode 4356 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 9512 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 2662 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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Food and wine Latest South Africa 

Restaurants: Rubens, Franschhoek, South Africa

November 22, 2023 jamiegoode 3697 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 3412 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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Impressive, well priced wines from Grochau Cellars/GC Wines from Oregon’s Willamette Valley
Features Latest Oregon 

Impressive, well priced wines from Grochau Cellars/GC Wines from Oregon’s Willamette Valley

February 8, 2026February 8, 2026 jamiegoode

Website: https://www.grochaucellars.com/ John Grochau started his winery in 2002, initially using his own name, but later switching it to GC

Boekenhoutskloof: a vertical of Semillon, and the 2023 new releases from this top South African winery
Features Latest South Africa 

Boekenhoutskloof: a vertical of Semillon, and the 2023 new releases from this top South African winery

February 6, 2026February 6, 2026 jamiegoode
Adelsheim, one of the pioneering Oregon wineries
Features Latest Oregon 

Adelsheim, one of the pioneering Oregon wineries

February 5, 2026February 5, 2026 jamiegoode
Visiting Emiliana, an important organic Chilean winery
Chile Features Latest Profiles 

Visiting Emiliana, an important organic Chilean winery

February 4, 2026February 4, 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.

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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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