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Yarra Valley: exploring this important Australian wine region

October 25, 2025December 15, 2025 jamiegoode 1348 Views Yarra Valley

The Yarra Valley was for a long time the land of the Wurundjeri people, and the history of human occupation

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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 10914 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 4645 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 6628 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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Australia Highlights 

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

January 13, 2021February 17, 2021 Treve Ring 6183 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 7339 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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Exploring Vinho Verde: Quinta de Santiago

April 28, 2026April 28, 2026 jamiegoode

Website: https://quintadesantiago.pt/en/ Joana Santiago came to work at her family estate in 2009 after 15 years as a lawyer. Previously,

Portugal’s Vinho Verde, a region transforming itself
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Portugal’s Vinho Verde, a region transforming itself

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Exploring Vinho Verde: Casa de Cello
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Exploring Vinho Verde: Casa de Cello

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Domaine Milan, making impressive natural wines in Provence
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Domaine Milan, making impressive natural wines in Provence

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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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