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New(ish) and notable in California
Some promising representatives of the next generation of California wine brands. Above, w inemaker Ryan Pass of Pass Wines (photo by Emma K Creative). There was a time, more than...
Alder Yarrow
Friday 23 January 2026
• 6 min read
Wines of the week
Bonny Doon, Le Cigare Blanc 2022 Central Coast
Richard Hemming MW
Friday 16 January 2026
• 1 min read
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Opus One 2001–2022
Quite a vertical! In London in November 2025, presented by Opus’s long-standing winemaker. Opus One is the wine world’s seminal joint venture (first vintage 1979), in this case between the...
Jancis Robinson
Wednesday 7 January 2026
• 4 min read
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The choice between outsourcing viticulture or hiring in-house vineyard staff examined.
Among oenophiles, the word ‘terroir’ is discussed ad nauseum...
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For the first time in many years, the laws governing how wineries can sell and advertise their products in California...
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Chairman of judges in a new professional cooking competition designed to promote California wine in the UK announces the winner...
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Breathe out. Winemakers in much of the northern hemisphere are experiencing a highly inconvenient shortage of CO 2. ‘Are you...
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Tom Parker MW reviews 43 wines from regions other than Bordeaux, which, along with others including Opus One 2018 and...
Alder on America
Last year's California wine production was severely shrunk by the effects of the 2020 wildfires, but by how much? And...
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Kate Nowell-Smith describes making wine as wildfires rage in Sonoma, and what she has learnt. She took this picture looking...
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'Hello, please find attached my article about the AJ Duckhorn vineyard, located in Russian River Valley, California, USA. It was...
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'Hello again! My name is Clayton Fox and I wrote about Frog's Leap last year and the inimitable John Williams...
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Jillian Riley writes: 'I am a sommelier based in Chicago. I was previously a wine director at a downtown hotel...
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'Christina Rasmussen is a wine writer, amateur photographer and (very) amateur winemaker-farmer. She is co-founder of wine platform www.littlewine.co, which...
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Miranda McCage writes, 'I'm currently a European Portfolio Consultant with Winebow, in addition to studying for my WSET Diploma. I...
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'A member of the US Wine Tasting Team, Gwendolyn Alley traveled to the Loire in 2019 to compete in the...
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Three very, very different California wine producers compared.
The launch of the latest vintage of Opus One, the first under...
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Ben Van Antwerp's bio reads: 'Ben is a winemaker in the Sta Rita Hills for Ken Brown Wines. He is...
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'Mary K. Miller is a freelance science and environment writer with a passion for wine first sparked when she took...
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