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Napa Sauvignon Blanc, 2024 and 2025
Rich takes on this popular white-wine variety. Above, Rudd’s Mt Veeder Estate (© Rudd). For the last three years I have flown from Oregon to California to review Napa Valley...
Samantha Cole-Johnson
• 2 min read
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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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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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Purple Pager and San Francisco-based barrel broker Mel Knox has been muttering Scherrer at...
Alder on America
In the early 1990s, while working in what was essentially the research and development arm of Silicon Valley Bank, Rob...
Alder on America
Analogies can be dangerous, but for anyone who doesn’t know the more detailed geography of California, it may be easiest...
Alder on America
Some years are unarguably more momentous than others. The question is whether we can really recognise them without the benefit...
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27 Nov As a celebration of Thanksgiving Day (and as part of our Throwback Thursday series) we are republishing and...
Alder on America
A good friend of mine was recently given the opportunity to join the most exclusive club in the world of...
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I finally made it to the annual get-together of European wine communicators organised by Ryan and Gabriella Opaz and Robert...
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This is a longer version of an article published in the Financial Times. See full tasting notes on all 88...
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From $20.89 to $29.99, and CA$32.99 – and from $11.99 and £9.95 for the Pedroncelli Find the Louis M Martini...
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23 Oct – We published this for members on Monday but thought that as a Throwback Thursday contribution it might...
Alder on America
The 2014 harvest is under way in California, but in Napa, instead of enjoying a beer in between loads of...
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In the early hours of Sunday morning, northern California experienced its strongest earthquake since 1989 and the epicentre was frighteningly...
Alder on America
It is the best of times, and it is the worst of times. In 2013, California celebrated its largest grape...
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Newton Vineyard is not currently one of Napa Valley's most talked-about wineries. Long gone are the days in the early...
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