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Jancis's diary – November and December 2025
Jet lag, a bad cold, but somehow an awful lot of good wine was enjoyed. This diary is a double helping, covering late October to late December, because this particular...
Jancis Robinson
Friday 2 January 2026
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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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Really useful coincidence: our big move from family house to smaller flat took place recently just a few months after...
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17 November 2016 We're making Alder's latest despatch from America free today as part of our Throwback Thursday series since...
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Last week when I was in Burgundy I heard a great deal of talk about foreign investors in Côte d’Or...
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10 November 2016 This week's delve into our archives for Throwback Thursday provides a companion piece to today's Pinots from...
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Bad news travels fast. I woke this morning to an email from Napa Valley vintner Gregory Rodeno telling me that...
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29 September 2016 We are republishing this two-year-old article about the Napa Valley wine producer Spottswoode in memory of its...
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See also Napa Valley Cabernets – depressing? and Napa Valley sub-appellations – heartening? With its diversity of soils and mesoclimates...
Alder on America
On Sunday 31 July 2016 one of the most innovative pieces of software ever developed for the wine industry was...
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Elaine’s review last week of Cabernets with the general Napa Valley appellation stirred up some strong reactions, including on our...
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In the first of two major reports on current releases of Napa Valley appellation Cabernets, her first for JancisRobinson.com, Elaine...
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In our family we were particularly sad to learn that Margrit Biever Mondavi died at the end of last week...
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See also Elaine's tasting articles on Santa Barbara Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. The TTB, the American wine regulatory body, today...
Alder on America
Since 2008, Chinese imports of wine have been growing at a staggering 30% or more annually, as more than 20...
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See this guide to our assemblages. Jancis writes I have to confess that this may be one of the strangest...
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21 July 2016 As today's Throwback Thursday we are making Alder's monthly contribution from California, published for members on Monday...
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Coombsville just south east of the town of Napa (see this map) became an official appellation in 2011 and since...
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