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...

Football shirts are out of control! They cost c £75, and then if you want the 'authentic' shirt as worn by the players, this is a new tier at £120. If you want printing, it's extra. Bonkers. If I buy, it's when last season's is remaindered

Book review: Jane Masters and Andrew Neather, Rooted in change: the stories behind sustainable wine wineanorak.com/2025/10/19/b... @hernehillandy.bsky.social @academieduvinlib.bsky.social

Carlos Raposo's World Wide Wines - ex-Niepoort winemaker in search of precision from the Dão region wineanorak.com/2025/10/19/c...

Espera - brilliant natural wines from Lisboa, Portugal wineanorak.com/2025/10/15/e...

La Tour Melas, a Greek first growth - tasting the wines over lunch at Gaia, Mayfair wineanorak.com/2025/10/15/l...

Visiting Aya Estate for the launch of their new winery - Bulgarian wine operating at a new level with more to come wineanorak.com/2025/10/07/v...

So Bonhams is auctioning off the cellar of Locandi Locatelli, and a few of us got to try some of the gems over lunch wineanorak.com/2025/10/06/b...

Tablas Creek and Château Beaucastel: telling the story of how a leading Rhône domaine fell in love with California wineanorak.com/2025/10/02/t...

Thanks Jamie for a nice review - The Smart Traveller's Wine Guide is now 6 titles: Bordeaux, Rioja, Rhone Valley, Switzerland, Tuscany and Napa Valley - and more to come! @jamiegoode.bsky.social

Tasting some wines from Bolivia, a first for me: Jardin Oculto and Yokich wineanorak.com/2025/09/28/t... @vinosity.bsky.social

Weingut Rosi Schuster, with Hannes Schuster, who’s making some of Austria’s best wines from privileged vineyards in Burgenland wineanorak.com/2025/09/22/w...

This is brilliantr: Citroen DS meets old Fordham

Tasting amazing Greek wines at @MrVertigoWines Athens wineanorak.com/2025/09/17/t...

The (rightly) most famous of all Hungary's wines, Tokaji is peerless, and has a rich history. I find out more about it at a masterclass in Budapest with two of its top proponents. wineanorak.com/2025/09/14/h...

Brilliant Corners, in Dalston (London, UK) combines natural wine, music and Japanese food, and it's unique wineanorak.com/2025/09/14/b...

Hungary's red grape varieties, a masterclass with some nice wines wineanorak.com/2025/09/11/h...

Fascinating. Wouldn't mind seeing this move from other regions. And no, Brett is not terrior.

Some smart wines at the 67 Sessions, with music from Nelson and Tom, and chat from Andrew Jefford wineanorak.com/2025/09/05/n...

One of the few bits of advice I can proffer young winemakers is this. The first grapes you harvest are likely not as ripe as you think they are. Last grapes are likely riper than you imagine

There are cameras and there are cameras. New addition - so good, and with M4/3 there are lots of amazing lenses available too

Alsace Pinot Noir, a mini study wineanorak.com/2025/09/01/a... @AlsaceWines #pinotnoir #alsace

Let's look at the coffee market and see what this can tell us about wine wineanorak.com/2025/08/31/l...

Been hard at work on the second edition of Regenerative Viticulture. The first edition came out in April 2022, and so much has happened since then! The second version is bigger, almost completely rewritten, and bang up to date. I'm quite excited!

‘It’s like Sleeping Beauty; we have to wake them’: winemakers urged to help save earthworms www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Looks like a modern natural wine cellar! I love that tinajas are back

Maison Arnaud Boué, making some excellent negociant wines in Bourgogne wineanorak.com/2025/08/28/m...

Global Vineyard Area, 1900-2024

Celebrated producer Lafleur leaves the Pomerol and Bordeaux appellations. What are we to make of this news? wineanorak.com/2025/08/27/w...

Hickinbotham: some impressive wines from a special vineyard in Australia's McLaren Vale, that in the past has contributed to some famous wines wineanorak.com/2025/08/25/h...

Samuel Billaud, making some of the best wines in Chablis wineanorak.com/2025/08/23/s...

New Zealand is making some of the world’s best Pinot Noir, and this is my roll-call of the best wineanorak.com/2025/08/18/n... @nzwine.bsky.social

“The estate's favourable climate, elevation, and clay loam soils contribute to the vineyard's success.” ??? It went bust www.theargus.co.uk/news/2538486...

Restaurants: Eleven Madison Park, New York – three-star vegan goodness that’s close to perfection wineanorak.com/2025/08/14/r...

Riley Harrison is making some compelling low-intervention wines from top sites across South Australia wineanorak.com/2025/08/14/r...

Mersel - exciting low intervention wines from Lebanon wineanorak.com/2025/08/13/m...

A great story! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

On wineanorak today, a mini series on the Macedon Ranges, a really exciting cool climate wine region in Victoria, Australia - featuring visits to three stars - Bindi, Place of Changing Winds, and Cobaw Ridge wineanorak.com/2025/08/06/v...

Spare a thought for those in the Languedoc - "The region has become increasingly vulnerable in recent years due to lower rainfall and the removal of vineyards, which once helped slow the spread of wildfires." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A Uruguayan Nebbiolo that I liked wineanorak.com/2025/08/05/h...

What the cool kids drink - a BYO dinner at Noble Rot with 10 friends in the trade wineanorak.com/2025/07/29/w...

Jim White on disease-resistant varieties: why we might soon be drinking Cloudy Bay Sauvignon made from PIWIs. A really good talk at the AWITC last week wineanorak.com/2025/07/28/p... @nzwine.bsky.social @cloudybay.bsky.social @moethennessy.bsky.social