Some recent additions to the main wineanorak.com site: Framingham: unsung heroes from New Zealand’s Marlborough region Muhr-van der Niepoort: Austria’s best red wines? AA Panevino: remarkable natural wines from Sicily…
Real time tasting of a natural wine
It’s Friday evening. After a cloudy, cool day we are being treated to a bright, warm-ish summer’s evening, and so I am sitting outside, glass in hand, blogging before I…
A chance to taste the Gold medal-winning wines from the IWC
On 30th June at Lord’s cricket ground there’s a nice chance to taste many of the gold medal-winning wines from this year’s International Wine Challenge. The IWC is proud to…
A remarkable natural Crozes Hermitage
This is one of the most drinkable wines in the universe. It’s a natural Crozes Hermitage made without any additions, and it’s simply beautiful. It’s not terribly profound, but it…
Video: making Port, traditional and modern approaches
Making Port wine: traditional and modern approaches from Jamie Goode on Vimeo.
Video: Jamie Goode in the Douro
A new video. It’s a sort of hybrid between my scenic vineyard pieces and my pieces to camera. I’ve been trying to improve the quality of these videos without making…
Tio Pepe Fino ‘En Rama’ – we like!
This is fantastic. It’s a special bottling of Gonzalez Byas’ Tio Pepe Fino Sherry, taken from the cask when the flor (the layer of yeast cells growing on the surface…
An evening with Randall Grahm
One of the thrills of writing about wine, apart from getting paid to do my hobby, is that I get to meet my wine heros. And last night, for the…
A thrillingly good, inexpensive Mencia
Mencia, the red grape of the Bierzo region in the northwest of Spain, is the same as Portugal’s Jaen. And it’s a grape I really like. Now this wine is…