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Napa's 2023 Cabernets
A banner vintage. Above, Dalla Valle Vineyards in Oakville produced two of Sam’s highlights of this vintage (image courtesy of Dalla Valle). In mid April, I spent two days in...
Samantha Cole-Johnson
• 3 min read
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West of the West – Santa Cruz Mountains
Part 4 of an exploration of California’s westernmost vineyards. Above, the Split Rail vineyard in Corralitos (credit: John Benedetti) . See also California’s far-coast vineyards , the SLO Coast and...
Patrick Comiskey
• 3 min read
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On Saturday I’ll be surveying how the wine scene has changed over the last 30 years, so I have been...
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Eric Baugher, Ridge Vineyards’ winemaker, was his usual affable if intense self but looked exhausted. He had spent the day...
Alder on America
Most major wine regions of the world have come to be dominated by a select few grape varieties. In Europe...
Wines of the week
From $36 Find Melville Pinots I’m very aware that many of our recent wines of the week have been difficult...
Nick on restaurants
This is a version of an article published by the Financial Times. When I asked a friend whose years in...
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Cakebread have been making Chardonnay in the Napa Valley for 42 years, Bruce Cakebread (pictured) told us while introducing a...
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One of the most entertaining segments of this year’s Napa Valley Wine Writers' Symposium (along with How well do Napa...
Alder on America
17 April We published this article initially for members only on 17 March this year but thought that Alder's story...
Alder on America
On 1 April, while the rest of the country was engaged in harmless pranks, California’s governor Jerry Brown was getting...
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Napa Valley has arguably overtaken the Médoc and St-Émilion/Pomerol as the world’s centre of wine-based financial optimism. There is no...
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Good news! The number of British wine importers taking California seriously has increased enormously recently. No longer the preserve of...
Nick on restaurants
A version of this article is also published by the Financial Times. Chefs shoulder a heavy responsibility, one that is...
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Until very recently, Santa Barbara County was probably the most significant wine region I had never visited. Well, that’s not...
Free for all
This is a much longer version of an article also published by the Financial Times. Vine-growers in the southern hemisphere...
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One of many reasons for my recent trip to South and North America was to at long last accept an...
Nick on restaurants
Of all the restaurants in all the world, Sierra Mar at the Post Ranch Inn on Highway 1 at Big...
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