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Sauvignon Blanc

Chile Highlights 

Highlights: Kalfu Sumpai Sauvignon Blanc Nicolasa Vineyard 2020 Huasco Valley, Chile

April 17, 2023April 28, 2023 jamiegoode 4354 Views Sauvignon Blanc

What’s special about this wine? It’s a Chilean Sauvignon Blanc that comes from the northerly vineyards Ventisquero planted in the

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Features New Zealand Regions 

Marlborough wine region at 50: interviewing Jamie Marfell of Brancott and Stoneleigh

February 6, 2023May 13, 2023 jamiegoode 7729 Views Marlborough, Sauvignon Blanc

After many years as chief winemaker for Stoneleigh, Jamie Marfell is now Group Winemaker for Pernod Ricard New Zealand, which

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Features South Africa 

South African Sauvignon Blanc at 10 years old: does it age?

October 5, 2022November 1, 2022 Treve Ring 5531 Views Aged Wine, Blind Tasting, Sauvignon Blanc

What do travelling wine writer geeks do on a day free from events? Taste more wines of course. South African

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Bordeaux Features Regions 

The ageing potential of Sauvignon Blanc: Sancerre and Bordeaux over three decades

June 9, 2022June 10, 2022 jamiegoode 11975 Views Sauvignon Blanc

This was an interesting tasting, looking at the two top examples of Sauvignon Blanc ageing over three decades. In the

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Chile Features Regions 

Chilean Sauvignon Blanc: tasting 18 examples

April 20, 2022May 15, 2022 jamiegoode 7996 Views Sauvignon Blanc

Sauvignon Blanc is an important grape for Chile. It’s the second most planted variety, with 15 222 hectares. Things really

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Features Latest New Zealand 

Mud House Chile Sauvignon Blanc, and why I think this is a bad idea

December 10, 2021December 10, 2021 jamiegoode 17997 Views Marlborough, Sauvignon Blanc

A few weeks ago a sample arrived. I opened it up and thought, oh, the new vintage of Mud House

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Bordeaux Features Profiles 

Château Couhins-Lurton with Jacques Lurton: a vertical of this important white Bordeaux

November 27, 2021December 14, 2021 jamiegoode 6936 Views Sauvignon Blanc

Couhins-Lurton is a small but important property in the Graves region of Bordeaux. Since 1967 it has been part of

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Highlights New Zealand 

Highlights: Yealands Sauvignon Blanc 2021 Marlborough, New Zealand

September 13, 2021 jamiegoode 7298 Views Sauvignon Blanc

I’ve tried my first wine from 2021! I saw this in Sainsbury’s and was curious, so I bought it and

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Highlights New Zealand 

Highlights: Rimapere Sauvignon Blanc

July 3, 2021August 1, 2021 jamiegoode 5670 Views Marlborough, Sauvignon Blanc

Edmond de Rotschild Heritage‘s wine group is a collection of nine wineries, taking in Bordeaux, South Africa, Rioja (Macan), Argentina

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New Zealand Videos 

Graham Norton’s celebrity wines: tasting the Sauvignon Blanc and ‘Pink by Design’

January 12, 2021January 18, 2021 jamiegoode 12851 Views Sauvignon Blanc

Since 2014 Graham Norton – comedian, actor and talk show host – has been endorsing a range of wines made

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The remarkable wines of Anne-Claire Schott, Three Lakes, Switzerland
Features Latest Profiles Switzerland 

The remarkable wines of Anne-Claire Schott, Three Lakes, Switzerland

March 22, 2026 jamiegoode

Website: https://www.schottweine.ch/ and https://www.aromaderlandschaft.ch/ I’ll admit to being smitten by the wines of Anne-Claire Schott, who is based in Neuchatel,

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, 2026March 21, 2026 jamiegoode
fryers cove bamboes bay
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

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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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