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Bonny Doon, Le Cigare Blanc 2022 Central Coast
You need to know this guy . From $23.95 or £21 (2023 vintage). Whenever I mention Bonny Doon, the response I hear most often is ‘I know that guy!’. But...
Richard Hemming MW
Friday 16 January 2026
• 2 min read
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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
• 1 min read
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Tasting articles
We continue Elaine's detailed reports on the wines of Santa Barbara County. See yesterday's look at Chardonnay. Pinot Noir from...
Tasting articles
This is the first of a series of articles about the exciting wines of Santa Barbara County. Santa Barbara County...
Alder on America
In the early 2000s, when my aspirations to own wine began to move beyond the small rack of a dozen...
Alder on America
Forget the drought. Grapevines can deal with water shortages. Some California winegrowers have an even bigger problem these days: marijuana...
Tasting articles
See our guide to all of this season's compilations. Jancis writes: Below are a massive 195 reviews of wines grown...
Tasting articles
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One...
Nick on restaurants
14 October 2015 Yesterday Danny Meyer, head of Union Square Hospitality and the most respected restaurateur in New York, perhaps...
Don't quote me
It started with a tweet. I had just got back from Australia having literally tasted hundreds of Australian wines from...
Tasting articles
The contrast between my two visits to taste the Carlisle wines of Mike Officer could hardly be more marked. The...
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Matthew Gaughan used to work for the estimable Manchester wine retailer Hanging Ditch before his heart relocated him to Napa...
Free for all
20 Aug 2015 Richard spotted this vintage article, written in late 2001. It's rather fun to re-read it today and...
Tasting articles
By the early 2000s, Cal-Ital was dead. It was almost impossible to sell California wine made from Italian cultivars. During...
Free for all
This article has been syndicated. I realised a long-standing ambition earlier this year. I finally got to enjoy Jim Clendenen’s...
Alder on America
It’s not so much of a heatwave as it is a suffocating blanket. Until yesterday, 14 July, the Walla Walla...
Nick on restaurants
This is a version of an article also published by the Financial Times. There were palm trees to our immediate...
Alder on America
To say that the economy of California’s Yuba County peaked during the gold rush and has been in slow decline...
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