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Giant Steps, Yarra Valley: Australia’s winery of the year launches the first wines from the remarkable Bastard Hill vineyard

August 21, 2024June 5, 2025 jamiegoode 8341 Views Chardonnay, pinot noir, Yarra Valley

Website: https://www.giantstepswine.com.au/ Giant Steps is a Yarra Valley winery that’s currently in the spotlight, winning the 2025 Halliday Guide Winery

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Video: Bastard Hill, a special vineyard in Australia’s Yarra Valley, is reborn under the ownership of Giant Steps

August 15, 2024August 15, 2024 jamiegoode 3747 Views Yarra Valley

The Bastard Hill vineyard was planted by Ray Guerin in 1987. It’s high up in the Yarra Valley (Australia), and

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The wines of Giant Steps, Yarra Valley and Tasmania, Australia

April 22, 2024May 21, 2024 jamiegoode 5482 Views Chardonnay, pinot noir, Yarra Valley

Website: https://www.giantstepswine.com.au/ It’s a new era for Yarra Valley winery Giant Steps. It was recently purchased by Jackson Family Wines,

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Highlights: Mac Forbes EB56 Italian Stallion Dolcetto 2019 Yarra, Australia

January 13, 2021February 17, 2021 Treve Ring 5611 Views Yarra Valley

Though Mac Forbes has been working with Italian varieties in the Yarra for a while, this is his first Dolcetto,

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Empire of Dirt, exciting new wines from the Yarra

November 14, 2019December 14, 2019 jamiegoode 6652 Views Yarra Valley

Sauvignon and a Cabernet from Australia’s Yarra Valley? Normally, I’d be sceptical, but when it’s a collaboration between Timo Meyer

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Wines from Emmanuel Giboulot, Bourgogne, tasted at Dynamic Vines
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Wines from Emmanuel Giboulot, Bourgogne, tasted at Dynamic Vines

September 7, 2025 jamiegoode

Website: https://www.dynamicvines.com/ Dynamic Vines is a respected importer of biodynamic, organic and low-intervention wines based in Bermondsey, London. On Saturday

Greek wines from female winemakers at Maltby and Greek
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Greek wines from female winemakers at Maltby and Greek

September 7, 2025September 7, 2025 jamiegoode
Nice wines at the 67 Sessions: Le Moine, Brocard, Scala Dei, San Leonardo
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Nice wines at the 67 Sessions: Le Moine, Brocard, Scala Dei, San Leonardo

September 5, 2025 jamiegoode
Origin roasters, Cape Town – an amazing coffee experience
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Origin roasters, Cape Town – an amazing coffee experience

September 2, 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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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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