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Five from important Tuscan producer Frescobaldi

May 21, 2025 jamiegoode 424 Views Chianti Classico, Tuscany

Website: https://www.frescobaldi.com/en/ Frescobaldi is a noted Tuscan producer with nine wineries in the province, making a wide range of wines.

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Highlights: Querciabella Batàr 2022 IGT Blanco Toscana, Italy

December 15, 2024December 15, 2024 jamiegoode 841 Views Tuscany

Website: https://querciabella.com/wine/batar/ Querciabella Batàr 2022 IGT Blanco Toscana, Italy14% alcohol. Since 1988 Querciabella have made this ‘supertuscan’ white, which is

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Highlights: Poggio Lamentano Vino Rosso 2020 Italy

April 18, 2023April 28, 2023 jamiegoode 3124 Views Tuscany

Website: https://www.vinolamentano.com/ This is a new wine from Bolgheri (Tuscany) and there’s a story behind it. Davy Zyw is the

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Highlights: two from Monterosola, an organic Tuscan winery

December 27, 2022March 7, 2023 jamiegoode 3706 Views Tuscany

This is an organically farmed estate of some 25 hectares located between Bolgheri on the coast and Chianti, in Tuscany.

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The wines of Podernuovo a Palazzone, polished gems from the south of Tuscany

October 26, 2022November 21, 2022 jamiegoode 4049 Views Tuscany

Website: https://www.podernuovoapalazzone.com/?lang=en Giovanni Bulgari is part of the Bulgari family, famous for their jewelry business. His family sold to LVMH

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Beautiful wines express a complex path – the wines of La Fiorita owe their existence to the bravery and business acumen of a woman who eventually learned the secret of saying NO

May 12, 2022July 10, 2022 Lisse Garnett 6458 Views Brunello, Montalcino, Tuscany

Natalie Oliveros is an astute successful woman with a wonderfully rich life. For the past ten years this New York

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Highlights Italy 

Highlights: Castello Banfi Rosso di Montalcino 2019 Toscana, Italy

December 18, 2021January 9, 2022 jamiegoode 4754 Views Sangiovese, Tuscany

Banfi are the biggest players by far in Tuscany’s Montalcino region, with 950 hectares under vine. But this isn’t an

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Chianti from Frescobaldi

November 4, 2021 jamiegoode 5230 Views chianti, Tuscany

Marchesi Frescobaldi is an old Tuscan family wine company that dates back an astonishing 700 years. It’s currently headed up

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Highlights: Gaja Ca’Marcanda Promis 2017 Toscana, Italy

August 2, 2020November 14, 2020 jamiegoode 7442 Views Tuscany

Gaja Ca’Marcanda Promis 2017 Toscana, Italy14% alcohol. This is from Gaja’s Tuscan estate in the Maremma, which they bought in

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Nigel Greening on navigating the tricky waters wine finds itself in, and the problems with ‘fine wine’: where does Felton Road sit?
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Nigel Greening on navigating the tricky waters wine finds itself in, and the problems with ‘fine wine’: where does Felton Road sit?

June 12, 2025June 12, 2025 jamiegoode

Back in February 2025 I attended the Pinot Noir 2025 conference in Christchurch, New Zealand. As well as some great

The wines of Muxagat, from Portugal’s Douro region
Features Latest Portugal 

The wines of Muxagat, from Portugal’s Douro region

June 12, 2025June 12, 2025 jamiegoode
New releases from Savage, one of South Africa’s very top producers
Features Latest Regions South Africa 

New releases from Savage, one of South Africa’s very top producers

June 11, 2025June 11, 2025 jamiegoode
Gonçalves Faria: serious, classic Bairrada wines, now under the Niepoort stable
Features Latest Portugal 

Gonçalves Faria: serious, classic Bairrada wines, now under the Niepoort stable

June 9, 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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