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Burgundy Food and wine Highlights Latest 

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

October 5, 2023 jamiegoode 5547 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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Food and wine Highlights South Africa 

Highlights: Mullineux and Sadie at Noble Rot Mayfair

September 29, 2023March 5, 2024 jamiegoode 3446 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 4980 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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Food and wine Highlights 

Highlights: Viña Tondonia Rosé at Restaurant Frank, Copenhagen

August 9, 2023March 5, 2024 jamiegoode 3094 Views Restaurants

Website: https://restaurantfrank.dk/en I happened to be in Copenhagen at the same time as Christina Rasmussen and we were both free,

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Features Food and wine 

Superb wines at Enomania, Copenhagen

August 7, 2023March 5, 2024 jamiegoode 4305 Views Restaurants

Website: http://www.enomania.dk/ Enomania is a remarkable Italian restaurant in Copenhagen with a strong interest in wine, as implied in the

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Food and wine 

Another great meal at Farmyard, St Leonards, with De Moor Aligoté and Principiano Barolo

June 25, 2023January 16, 2024 jamiegoode 2990 Views Restaurants

Headed back to St Leonards on sea (near Hastings) yesterday, on a perfect summer’s day. Walking through the town and

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Food and wine New York State 

Restaurants: Dinosaur Syracuse, New York State

June 24, 2023July 21, 2025 jamiegoode 3346 Views Restaurants

American BBQ isn’t something that’s really translated to the UK, but it’s a big thing stateside, especially down south. I

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Features Food and wine Italy 

Piemonte adventure (4) in Bra, dining at Battaglino and Osteria del Boccondivino

June 15, 2023July 9, 2023 jamiegoode 4113 Views Piemonte, Restaurants

The Piemonte adventure continued during a stay in Bra, with two excellent meals, plus a few other wines tasted. Barbacàn

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Features Food and wine Portugal 

The Simplesmente Vinho Jantar Pop-Up: a great evening of Portuguese food and wine

February 25, 2023November 14, 2025 jamiegoode 3412 Views Restaurants

Each year at the fabulous Simplesmente Vinho festival there is a pop-up dinner, with top chefs creating interesting, authentic food

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Restaurants: Farmyard, St Leonards (Hastings)

January 7, 2023January 7, 2023 jamiegoode 7243 Views Natural wine, Restaurants

Farmyard, St Leonards (Hastings) Website: https://farmyardwine.com/ Betina Piqueras-Fiszman and Charles Spence wrote a book about the perfect meal. Their thesis

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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.

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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