Jamie Goode
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Wine journalist, book author, flavour obsessive
The 12 Sauvignon Blancs that form the 2025 selection for Appelation Marlborough impress - full notes on these bottles on wineanorak
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January 22, 2026 at 8:51 PM
The 12 Sauvignon Blancs that form the 2025 selection for Appelation Marlborough impress - full notes on these bottles on wineanorak
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Visiting Greystone Wines in New Zealand's North Canterbury wine region, where they have been doing interesting work on vineyard ferments and incorporating animals into the vineyard by switching blocks to a high trellis
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January 21, 2026 at 10:30 AM
Visiting Greystone Wines in New Zealand's North Canterbury wine region, where they have been doing interesting work on vineyard ferments and incorporating animals into the vineyard by switching blocks to a high trellis
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Raffaello Sorbi (Italian 1844–1931) La festa della vendemmia (The Harvest Dance) 1893. Note the "married vines" -- trained on trees.
January 17, 2026 at 9:42 PM
Raffaello Sorbi (Italian 1844–1931) La festa della vendemmia (The Harvest Dance) 1893. Note the "married vines" -- trained on trees.
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This day, 106 years ago, on Jan 17, 1920, National U.S. Prohibition goes into effect. The U.S. "All Liquor Stains Wiped from Stars and Stripes." The entire U.S. will stay dry for almost 14 years, until Prohibition is appealed on December 5, 1933.
January 17, 2026 at 10:30 PM
This day, 106 years ago, on Jan 17, 1920, National U.S. Prohibition goes into effect. The U.S. "All Liquor Stains Wiped from Stars and Stripes." The entire U.S. will stay dry for almost 14 years, until Prohibition is appealed on December 5, 1933.
Interesting piece. I guess the problem is supply and demand. Science creates too many PhDs - it's cheap labour. And there aren't enough jobs to soak them up. So you end up competing with very smart people for limited positions, and you have to be prepared to move frequently early career.
Academia too often has a ‘passion first, money second’ culture. Overcoming this mindset is crucial for building a happy career
go.nature.com/4bvaCCh
go.nature.com/4bvaCCh
We need to talk about salaries in science
Academia too often has a ‘passion first, money second’ culture. Overcoming this mindset is crucial for building a happy career.
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January 12, 2026 at 12:53 PM
Interesting piece. I guess the problem is supply and demand. Science creates too many PhDs - it's cheap labour. And there aren't enough jobs to soak them up. So you end up competing with very smart people for limited positions, and you have to be prepared to move frequently early career.
After the Glu Glu festival in Coimbra, I spent the day with Rui Lucas, of Prior Lucas, an interesting, innovative winery in Portugal's Bairrada region wineanorak.com/2026/01/08/p...
January 8, 2026 at 10:18 AM
After the Glu Glu festival in Coimbra, I spent the day with Rui Lucas, of Prior Lucas, an interesting, innovative winery in Portugal's Bairrada region wineanorak.com/2026/01/08/p...
Tasting some innovative wine projects from Luxembourg and Germany – Kox, Dope, Piri Naturel, Kraemer and Salutaris
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January 7, 2026 at 9:33 AM
Tasting some innovative wine projects from Luxembourg and Germany – Kox, Dope, Piri Naturel, Kraemer and Salutaris
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Creation, one of the leading wineries from South Africa’s cool-climate Hemel-en-Aarde region, with notes on the latest releases of their top wines wineanorak.com/2026/01/05/c...
January 6, 2026 at 7:06 AM
Creation, one of the leading wineries from South Africa’s cool-climate Hemel-en-Aarde region, with notes on the latest releases of their top wines wineanorak.com/2026/01/05/c...
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Wine advertisement during WWII (1943) “Wine Changes War Dishes into Food for Kings.” Run by California’s Wine Advisory Board. The board was established in 1938 and was set out to promote Californian wine. Note the war bond sticker in the lower right corner - “Before all else BUY BONDS.”
January 5, 2026 at 10:26 PM
Wine advertisement during WWII (1943) “Wine Changes War Dishes into Food for Kings.” Run by California’s Wine Advisory Board. The board was established in 1938 and was set out to promote Californian wine. Note the war bond sticker in the lower right corner - “Before all else BUY BONDS.”
A Pinotage study - comparing six examples of this uniquely South African grape variety
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January 3, 2026 at 11:12 PM
A Pinotage study - comparing six examples of this uniquely South African grape variety
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Roussillon exploration continues with a visit to Domaine Pertuisane, with some exceptional vineyard sites in Maury
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December 28, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Roussillon exploration continues with a visit to Domaine Pertuisane, with some exceptional vineyard sites in Maury
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The wines of Camillo Donati, natural sparkling wines of note from Emilio Romagna wineanorak.com/2025/12/26/t... @vinnatur.bsky.social
December 26, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The wines of Camillo Donati, natural sparkling wines of note from Emilio Romagna wineanorak.com/2025/12/26/t... @vinnatur.bsky.social
Visiting Villa Melnik, a leading winery based in Bulgaria's Struma Valley (bordering Greece and Macedonia) and championing Shiroka Melnik, an interesting local variety
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December 22, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Visiting Villa Melnik, a leading winery based in Bulgaria's Struma Valley (bordering Greece and Macedonia) and championing Shiroka Melnik, an interesting local variety
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Kumeu River - making NZ's most sought-after Chardonnays from Auckland and Hawke's Bay - tasting the 2024s and comparing them with 2014 wineanorak.com/2025/12/21/k... @nzwine.bsky.social
December 21, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Kumeu River - making NZ's most sought-after Chardonnays from Auckland and Hawke's Bay - tasting the 2024s and comparing them with 2014 wineanorak.com/2025/12/21/k... @nzwine.bsky.social
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Little scientific support for 'there is no safe level of alcohol intake'.
JOURNAL OF WINE ECONOMICS, 2025, 20(3):
“How Much Is Too Much? A Methodological Investigation of the Literature on Alcohol Consumption and Health” by S Castriota, P Frumento & F Suppressa
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JOURNAL OF WINE ECONOMICS, 2025, 20(3):
“How Much Is Too Much? A Methodological Investigation of the Literature on Alcohol Consumption and Health” by S Castriota, P Frumento & F Suppressa
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December 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Little scientific support for 'there is no safe level of alcohol intake'.
JOURNAL OF WINE ECONOMICS, 2025, 20(3):
“How Much Is Too Much? A Methodological Investigation of the Literature on Alcohol Consumption and Health” by S Castriota, P Frumento & F Suppressa
wine-economics.org/wp-content/u...
JOURNAL OF WINE ECONOMICS, 2025, 20(3):
“How Much Is Too Much? A Methodological Investigation of the Literature on Alcohol Consumption and Health” by S Castriota, P Frumento & F Suppressa
wine-economics.org/wp-content/u...
really good piece, read and inwardly digest
Brilliant analysis of wine’s zeitgeist by one of wine’s most brilliant thinkers. A must read. blog.resy.com/2025/12/make...
How Wine Can Blaze a Trail to a Much Brighter Future — Resy | Right This Way
In 2013, a group of California winemakers gathered for an unusual tasting called the Seven Percent Solution. The “seven percent” referred to…
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December 18, 2025 at 8:16 PM
really good piece, read and inwardly digest
New releases from Radford Dale - great value Vinum wines and the new-ish organic fine wine range wineanorak.com/2025/12/17/t...
December 17, 2025 at 6:26 PM
New releases from Radford Dale - great value Vinum wines and the new-ish organic fine wine range wineanorak.com/2025/12/17/t...
Launched today, the much expanded second edition of regenerative viticulture
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December 15, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Launched today, the much expanded second edition of regenerative viticulture
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Transmission: an exciting new-ish project in Bairrada, Portugal - notes on a visit and the 2022s wineanorak.com/2025/12/14/t...
December 14, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Transmission: an exciting new-ish project in Bairrada, Portugal - notes on a visit and the 2022s wineanorak.com/2025/12/14/t...
The Gimblett Gravels is a distinctive terroir in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, specialising in Syrah and Bordeaux varieties. Each year Andrew Caillard makes a selection of the best. Here is my review of the 2023 wines
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December 1, 2025 at 9:47 PM
The Gimblett Gravels is a distinctive terroir in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, specialising in Syrah and Bordeaux varieties. Each year Andrew Caillard makes a selection of the best. Here is my review of the 2023 wines
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The future of organic farming? At Staffelter Hof in the Mosel Jan-Matthias Klein has taken a punt on resistant grape varieties and vitiforestry, and it looks like it is going to pay off: true sustainability in viticulture is getting a little closer wineanorak.com/2025/11/28/a... @
November 29, 2025 at 1:48 PM
The future of organic farming? At Staffelter Hof in the Mosel Jan-Matthias Klein has taken a punt on resistant grape varieties and vitiforestry, and it looks like it is going to pay off: true sustainability in viticulture is getting a little closer wineanorak.com/2025/11/28/a... @
Bryter Later, a brilliant new-ish low intervention winegrower in North Canterbury, New Zealand
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November 19, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Bryter Later, a brilliant new-ish low intervention winegrower in North Canterbury, New Zealand
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A very cool initiative www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Westmorland and Furness trials Japanese method to plant trees - BBC News
A council wants to plant one tree per resident over five years, aiming for a total of 250,000.
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November 9, 2025 at 9:39 AM
A very cool initiative www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This is interesting.
"The decision on whether or not to include Voltis in AOP Champagne production specifications will be made after the 2032 harvest""We are learning to get to know it” #voltis #champagne
Champagne harvests its first Voltis grapes
Champagne’s 8.9 hectares of Voltis, the white grape variety resistant to downy and powdery mildew, were harvested for the first time this year.
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November 9, 2025 at 9:30 AM
This is interesting.
Visiting Antiyal, with Alvaro Espinoza, the biodynamic pioneer of Chile wineanorak.com/2025/11/08/v... #biodynamic
November 8, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Visiting Antiyal, with Alvaro Espinoza, the biodynamic pioneer of Chile wineanorak.com/2025/11/08/v... #biodynamic