I visit Champagne Drappier who have just released a remarkable new prestige cuvée aged in wooden eggs called Éclose wineanorak.com/2026/03/27/i...

A vertical tasting to celebrate 30 years of Ca'Marcanda, Gaja's Bolgheri outpost wineanorak.com/2026/03/24/c...

Impressive new releases from Stellenbosch winery Meerlust including the 2023 Rubicon wineanorak.com/2026/03/23/n...

The remarkable wines of Anne-Claire Schott, a Swiss wine star! wineanorak.com/2026/03/22/t...

Gant & Co - stylish, low intervention, early picked wines from Margaret River, Australia wineanorak.com/2026/03/14/g...

Inside Burgundy - a tasting of six top wines with Burgundy expert Jasper Morris wineanorak.com/2026/03/09/i...

Australia's classics - a brilliant masterclass with Caillard, Riggs and Lacey wineanorak.com/2026/03/08/a...

Apollo's Praise, an exciting new producer in the Finger Lakes wine region of NY State, with quirky branding but brilliant wines wineanorak.com/2026/03/03/a...

The colour of those leaves gives an idea of copper usage back then!

A major article exploring non-alcoholic wine, which is a growing category. What are the technical challenges, how can they be overcome, and what's the future for this important segment? Visits to facilities, interviews with scientists and specialists wineanorak.com/2026/02/20/o...

Yabby Lake is one of the stars of the Mornington Peninsula, making some of Australia's best Pinot Noir and Chardonnay wineanorak.com/2026/02/22/y...

The wine scene in the US has improved immeasurably in 45 years!!!!

The final part of my series on New Zealand's North Canterbury wine region - visiting Pegasus Bay, one of the region's pioneering wineries wineanorak.com/2026/02/16/n... @nzwine.bsky.social

Impressive, well priced wines from Grocheau Cellars/GC Wines from Oregon’s Willamette Valley wineanorak.com/2026/02/08/i...

Boekenhoutskloof, based in Franschhoek but also making wines from the Swartland and Stellenbosch, is an important player in South Africa's fine wine dimension. I meet Marc Kent to taste through new releases and also to look at how well the Semillon ages wineanorak.com/2026/02/06/b...

Visiting Emiliana, an important winery for the development of organic farming in Chile wineanorak.com/2026/02/04/v...

Latest for Wine Mag in South Africa winemag.co.za/wine/opinion...

Fantastic stuff from Waitrose - first big supermarket chain to embrace and actively promote SIBA’s indie beer campaign. www.waitrose.com/ecom/shop/br...

Matías Riccitelli, making some of Argentia’s best wines wineanorak.com/2026/02/01/m... @hnwines.bsky.social

Popped into Dynamic Vines today and was lucky enough to find they were pouring the 2022s from Emidio Pepe. Such focus to these wines - they're just lovely wineanorak.com/2026/01/31/t...

I liked the way I scored back in 1997. This was my first trip to California with friends, and we did some wine country visits. Quite pleased that I've kept my website content from almost 30 years ago live. There weren't many wine websites then. www.wineanorak.com/calt1.htm

Visiting on of New Zealand's most amazing vineyards - Pyramid Valley, in Waikari, North Canterbury wineanorak.com/2026/01/30/n...

The 12 Sauvignon Blancs that form the 2025 selection for Appelation Marlborough impress - full notes on these bottles on wineanorak wineanorak.com/2026/01/22/a... @nzwine.bsky.social

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 wineanorak.com/2026/01/21/n... @nzwine.bsky.social

Raffaello Sorbi (Italian 1844–1931) La festa della vendemmia (The Harvest Dance) 1893. Note the "married vines" -- trained on trees.

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.

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 wineanorak.com/2026/01/07/t...

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...

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 wineanorak.com/2026/01/03/a... #pinotage

Roussillon exploration continues with a visit to Domaine Pertuisane, with some exceptional vineyard sites in Maury wineanorak.com/2025/12/28/e...

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 wineanorak.com/2025/12/22/v...

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

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...

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...

Launched today, the much expanded second edition of regenerative viticulture wineanorak.com/2025/12/15/l...

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 wineanorak.com/2025/12/01/2... @nzwine.bsky.social

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 wineanorak.com/2025/11/19/n... @nzwine.bsky.social

A very cool initiative www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is interesting.

Visiting Antiyal, with Alvaro Espinoza, the biodynamic pioneer of Chile wineanorak.com/2025/11/08/v... #biodynamic

I've spent two days lecturing to MSc students in Vila Real, Portugal. Lots of wine science! It has been a great experience but it's also hard work, standing up and talking/presenting for 5 h a day.

The new release of Cloudy Bay's Sauvignon Blanc, the 2025, is benchmark Marlborough. I'm looking forward to trying more from this vintage. wineanorak.com/2025/10/29/h... @moethennessy.bsky.social @cloudybay.bsky.social @nzwine.bsky.social

Cruse x Hirsch, tasting some Californian gems from this star partnership wineanorak.com/2025/10/28/c...