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Alder's most memorable California wines 2025
Pleasure – and meaning – in the glass. In reflecting on a year of tasting, I am fascinated by what persists in memory. Which wines have remained vivid and which...
Alder Yarrow
Wednesday 31 December 2025
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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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The exceptionally heavy and much-appreciated rains seen in California this winter have people through the region feeling as though California’s...
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The 51st publication in our series of entries into our wine writing competition comes from one of our youngest entrants...
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Less than 100 miles separates Napa Valley from Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, a sprawling, leafy campus that is as...
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I have been enjoying Kistler wines for virtually as long as they have been available, soon after the enterprise was...
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Last week the University of California at Davis announced that Warren Winiarski (right), founder and former proprietor of Stag’s Leap...
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This past Saturday, 11 February, an estimated four thousand people gathered on Ocean Beach in San Francisco to offer a...
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This autumn I was able to spend time with Antoine Donnedieu de Vabres, general manager of the Eisele Vineyard, previously...
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Fifteen years ago, at the height of wine critic Robert Parker’s influence and fame, WIRED magazine wrote an article about...
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5 January 2017 We're republishing this group of Tam's wonderfully thorough wine-book reviews free today as part of our regular...
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Updated substantially on 5 January Just hours after the shock news that somms' darling Clos Rougeard of Saumur had been...
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