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Shadows over northern California
Demand, and prices, are falling. A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. Above, the view from Smith Madrone on Napa Valley’s Spring Mountain in early November...
Jancis Robinson
Saturday 27 December 2025
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Tasted in northern California
The second tranche of wines reviewed on Jancis’s recent West Coast road trip. Above, the new Overshine Collective, a group of wine producers who are combining their back-office efforts to...
Jancis Robinson
Friday 26 December 2025
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Wine news in 5
Trinchero purchases Mumm Napa, Chablis updates AOC, Canada sells off US booze
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Friday 19 December 2025
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Just what California should be offering us... From $10.97, CA$19.25, €14.90, 16.90 Swiss francs, £16.95, 254 Norwegian kroner Find this...
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Patrick Campbell's iconic Sonoma estate is now under new management. Has it changed? Sonoma County receives far less attention for...
Alder on America
This spring has been just as challenging for vine growers in California as in Italy, it seems. Grapevines are notoriously...
Alder on America
There'a a renaissance of sparkling wine production in the golden state.
I’ve been having something of an unnerving experience of...
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A collection of tasting notes on particularly fine wines. I try to keep a record of all the significant wines...
Alder on America
Alder reports from a West Coast that is, at last, rather damp. It’s spring in California wine country. ‘As the...
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28 March 2019 We go way, way back – 18 years to be precise – for today's Throwback Thursday, chosen...
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A history of US wine exports to Europe. This article has been syndicated. The United States is by far the...
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Elaine goes to the mountain. Click on the Ridge tag to see our extensive previous coverage of this hugely important...
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A slightly shorter version of this article about the many less classic wines being made today on the west coast...
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Our second compilation of wine reviews from the whole team on a geographical theme concentrates on the US. See also...
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Elaine was treated to the unique luxury of tasting every vintage of Cathy Corison's very special single-vineyard Cabernet. Cathy herself...
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Hot air, hype and ambition aplenty in this new-product announcement. I thought you might like an inside look at how...
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From Lifetime Achievement Award to a brand new enterprise. On Wednesday it was announced that Bob Lindquist, one of California’s...
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I present to you today the current Pinot Noirs of two very different American producers. Sonoma-based Jamie Kutch is a...
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From tiny artisan to international superstar consultant.
Updating The World Atlas of Wine has limited my travels last year and...
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