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Highlight : Testalonga Bandits Kloof Daisy’s Pond 2021, Swartland, South Africa
Highlights Latest South Africa 

Highlight : Testalonga Bandits Kloof Daisy’s Pond 2021, Swartland, South Africa

October 16, 2025October 16, 2025 Treve Ring
Book review: Kristian Kielmayer, The Natural Wines of Hungary
Features Latest 

Book review: Kristian Kielmayer, The Natural Wines of Hungary

October 16, 2025 jamiegoode
Concerto, the re-born super Tuscan wine from Fonterutoli
Features Italy Latest 

Concerto, the re-born super Tuscan wine from Fonterutoli

October 15, 2025October 15, 2025 jamiegoode
Espera: brilliant natural-leaning wines from Lisboa, Portugal
Features Latest Portugal 

Espera: brilliant natural-leaning wines from Lisboa, Portugal

October 15, 2025 jamiegoode
Champagne Salon and Delamotte: the 2015 Salon release, and a look at the current Delamotte range
Champagne Features Latest Regions TOP STORIES 

Champagne Salon and Delamotte: the 2015 Salon release, and a look at the current Delamotte range

September 26, 2025September 27, 2025 jamiegoode
Restaurants: Eleven Madison Park, New York – three-star vegan goodness that’s close to perfection
Food and wine TOP STORIES 

Restaurants: Eleven Madison Park, New York – three-star vegan goodness that’s close to perfection

August 14, 2025August 14, 2025 jamiegoode
Rosé roundup: tasting and rating a wide selection of pink wines
Features Latest TOP STORIES 

Rosé roundup: tasting and rating a wide selection of pink wines

August 2, 2025August 6, 2025 jamiegoode
MAULE: SMALL-SCALE ETHICAL PRODUCERS KEEP RURAL COMMUNITIES ALIVE WHILST MAKING SOME OF THE MOST EXCITING WINES IN LATIN AMERICA 
Chile Features Highlights Latest TOP STORIES 

MAULE: SMALL-SCALE ETHICAL PRODUCERS KEEP RURAL COMMUNITIES ALIVE WHILST MAKING SOME OF THE MOST EXCITING WINES IN LATIN AMERICA 

July 29, 2025July 30, 2025 Lisse Garnett

Regions

Visiting Aya Estate for the opening of their winery: Bulgarian wine playing at a new level
Bulgaria Features Latest Regions 

Visiting Aya Estate for the opening of their winery: Bulgarian wine playing at a new level

October 7, 2025October 7, 2025 jamiegoode

Website: https://ayaestatevineyards.com/en/ I’m just on my way back from the Struma Valley in southern Bulgaria, where I was attending the

A quick guide to New Zealand wine
Features Latest New to wine New Zealand Regions 

A quick guide to New Zealand wine

October 5, 2025October 6, 2025 jamiegoode
Champagne Salon and Delamotte: the 2015 Salon release, and a look at the current Delamotte range
Champagne Features Latest Regions TOP STORIES 

Champagne Salon and Delamotte: the 2015 Salon release, and a look at the current Delamotte range

September 26, 2025September 27, 2025 jamiegoode
Weingut Rosi Schuster, with Hannes Schuster, who’s making some of Austria’s best wines
Austria Features Latest Regions 

Weingut Rosi Schuster, with Hannes Schuster, who’s making some of Austria’s best wines

September 22, 2025September 22, 2025 jamiegoode
Tasting amazing Greek wines at Mr Vertigo, Athens
Features Greece Latest Regions 

Tasting amazing Greek wines at Mr Vertigo, Athens

September 17, 2025September 17, 2025 jamiegoode

Wine science

Video: Regenerative approaches at Domaine Lafage, Roussillon: trialling biochar and resistant varieties
Latest Videos Wine Science 

Video: Regenerative approaches at Domaine Lafage, Roussillon: trialling biochar and resistant varieties

September 8, 2025September 8, 2025 jamiegoode

I meet with Antoine Lespès and Jean-Marc Lafage to hear about their regenerative approaches. They have been trialling biochar, a

Video: visiting the innovative regenerative block at Greystone Wines in North Canterbury, NZ
Latest Videos Wine Science 

Video: visiting the innovative regenerative block at Greystone Wines in North Canterbury, NZ

August 20, 2025August 22, 2025 jamiegoode
Prospects for disease-resistant varieties in Marlborough and elsewhere: will we soon see Cloudy Bay Sauvignon made from a PIWI?
Features Latest New Zealand Wine Science 

Prospects for disease-resistant varieties in Marlborough and elsewhere: will we soon see Cloudy Bay Sauvignon made from a PIWI?

July 28, 2025August 27, 2025 jamiegoode
French Bloom, a high-end alcohol-free sparkling wine that’s the most convincing product in this space yet
Champagne Features France Latest Wine Science 

French Bloom, a high-end alcohol-free sparkling wine that’s the most convincing product in this space yet

July 28, 2025July 28, 2025 jamiegoode

New to wine

A quick guide to New Zealand wine
Features Latest New to wine New Zealand Regions 

A quick guide to New Zealand wine

October 5, 2025October 6, 2025 jamiegoode

New Zealand is a relative newcomer in the roll call of significant wine-producing countries. It wasn’t until the mid-1980s that

Champagne: an introduction
Champagne Features New to wine 

Champagne: an introduction

May 28, 2024August 25, 2024 jamiegoode
What is a grape variety? What is a clone? Unpacking the science
New to wine Wine Science 

What is a grape variety? What is a clone? Unpacking the science

February 9, 2023February 9, 2023 jamiegoode
Pét-Nat: A Primer
Austria Beaujolais Canada Features France Italy New to wine 

Pét-Nat: A Primer

December 22, 2022January 23, 2023 Treve Ring

Videos

Short films from around the world of wine

Video: Regenerative approaches at Domaine Lafage, Roussillon: trialling biochar and resistant varieties
Latest Videos Wine Science 

Video: Regenerative approaches at Domaine Lafage, Roussillon: trialling biochar and resistant varieties

September 8, 2025September 8, 2025 jamiegoode

I meet with Antoine Lespès and Jean-Marc Lafage to hear about their regenerative approaches. They have been trialling biochar, a

Video: visiting the innovative regenerative block at Greystone Wines in North Canterbury, NZ
Latest Videos Wine Science 

Video: visiting the innovative regenerative block at Greystone Wines in North Canterbury, NZ

August 20, 2025August 22, 2025 jamiegoode
Highlight: the stunning first edition of Perpetual from English fizz star Langham
England Highlights Latest Videos 

Highlight: the stunning first edition of Perpetual from English fizz star Langham

July 14, 2025July 14, 2025 jamiegoode
Highlights: Heimann & Fiai Kadarka 2024 Szekszárd, Hungary
Highlights Hungary Latest Videos 

Highlights: Heimann & Fiai Kadarka 2024 Szekszárd, Hungary

June 26, 2025 jamiegoode

Features

Book review: Kristian Kielmayer, The Natural Wines of Hungary
Features Latest 

Book review: Kristian Kielmayer, The Natural Wines of Hungary

October 16, 2025 jamiegoode

Website: https://kristiankielmayer.com/natural-wines-of-hungary/ The natural wine scene is so interesting. It has also caused a lot of griping in the wine

Concerto, the re-born super Tuscan wine from Fonterutoli
Features Italy Latest 

Concerto, the re-born super Tuscan wine from Fonterutoli

October 15, 2025October 15, 2025 jamiegoode
Espera: brilliant natural-leaning wines from Lisboa, Portugal
Features Latest Portugal 

Espera: brilliant natural-leaning wines from Lisboa, Portugal

October 15, 2025 jamiegoode
La Tour Melas, a Greek first growth: tasting the wines over lunch at Gaia, Mayfair
Features Food and wine Greece Latest 

La Tour Melas, a Greek first growth: tasting the wines over lunch at Gaia, Mayfair

October 15, 2025October 15, 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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