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  • Sensory assessment of coffee, with parallels to wine tasting: cupping, grading and describing, with Dr Fabiana Carvalho
  • Exploring speciality coffee and its parallels with fine wine: a visit to Fazenda Mió in Brazil to catch the harvest
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Review: Christie’s World Encyclopedia of Champagne and Sparkling Wine

May 7, 2020May 15, 2020 jamiegoode 11178 Views Sparkling wine

This is the new (2019) edition of the most comprehensive guide to sparkling wine, a category that’s exciting at the

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Highlights: Wiston Blanc de Blancs 2015 England

April 15, 2020April 23, 2020 jamiegoode 5852 Views Sparkling wine

Another really impressive sparkling wine from England. The vineyard is 6.5 hectares planted in 2006, on chalk soils of the

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England Highlights Videos 

Highlights: Black Chalk Classic 2016 Hampshire, England

April 14, 2020May 15, 2020 jamiegoode 6897 Views Sparkling wine

Black Chalk began life as a side-gig for Hattingley Valley winemaker Jacob Leadley. It was a joint venture with his

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Video: disgorgement à la volée

February 18, 2020 jamiegoode 10249 Views Sparkling wine

This is a fun video of an inpromptu disgorgement. It’s known as disgorgement à la volée (flying disgorgement), and it’s

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Canada Highlights 

Highlights: two sparkling wines from Fitzpatrick, Okanagan, Canada

February 5, 2020February 7, 2020 jamiegoode 5783 Views okanagan, Sparkling wine

Fitzpatrick Fitz Blanc de Blanc 2015 Okanagan, Canada12% alcohol. The Fitzpatrick family owned Cedar Creek, and when they sold to

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England Highlights 

Highlights: three special editions from Hush Heath, England

January 19, 2020January 19, 2020 jamiegoode 6321 Views Sparkling wine

This is a special edition trio of wines from Kent-based winery Hush Heath, with each wine being a personal project

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Profiles South Africa 

Charles Fox, sparkling wine specialist from Elgin

November 13, 2019November 13, 2019 jamiegoode 6904 Views Sparkling wine

You’d think that Elgin, with its cool climate, is well suited to sparkling wine production, although not many people make

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England Highlights 

Hambledon’s new Première Cuvée Rosé

November 3, 2019December 14, 2019 jamiegoode 5426 Views Pinot Meunier, Sparkling wine

One of the leading English sparkling wine producers releases a zero dosage Pinot Meunier This is interesting. 100% Pinot Meunier.

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Exploring speciality coffee and its parallels with fine wine: planning for the future, looking at new coffee varieties
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Exploring speciality coffee and its parallels with fine wine: planning for the future, looking at new coffee varieties

July 14, 2026July 14, 2026 jamiegoode

Just as grapevines are sensitive to the climate, coffee varieties only thrive within narrow climatic bounds. And with climate change,

Exploring speciality coffee and its parallels with fine wine: regenerative farming in coffee production at the Sombra agroforestry project at Fazenda Mió in Brazil
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Exploring speciality coffee and its parallels with fine wine: regenerative farming in coffee production at the Sombra agroforestry project at Fazenda Mió in Brazil

July 14, 2026July 14, 2026 jamiegoode
Sensory assessment of coffee, with parallels to wine tasting: cupping, grading and describing, with Dr Fabiana Carvalho
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Sensory assessment of coffee, with parallels to wine tasting: cupping, grading and describing, with Dr Fabiana Carvalho

July 14, 2026July 14, 2026 jamiegoode
Exploring speciality coffee and its parallels with fine wine: a visit to Fazenda Mió in Brazil to catch the harvest
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Exploring speciality coffee and its parallels with fine wine: a visit to Fazenda Mió in Brazil to catch the harvest

July 14, 2026July 14, 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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