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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
• 1 min read
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Tasted in northern California
The second tranche of wines reviewed on Jancis’s recent West Coast road trip. Above, the new Overshine Collective, a group of wine producers who are combining their back-office efforts to...
Jancis Robinson
Friday 26 December 2025
• 9 min read
Wine news in 5
Trinchero purchases Mumm Napa, Chablis updates AOC, Canada sells off US booze
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Friday 19 December 2025
• 1 min read
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Alder on America
Silicon Valley lies a mere 90 miles from the heart of California wine country, but sits worlds apart. The frenzy...
Alder on America
By the time I was four years old, I had begun to visit my father during the summer at the...
Alex on taste
Imagine: it's speed-dating night for wine geeks. 'So, are you five, 20 or 100?' A nice gambit – or is...
Alder on America
For the past 20 years, the last weekend in April or the first weekend in May has always meant the...
Alder on America
'Panic! Wine Prices Due to Rise' read a recent headline on TIME Magazine's website. Welcome to the absurd states of...
Inside information
The Sonoma Coast is a ridiculously vast AVA that stretches from Mendocino almost as far south as Carneros (see map...
Tasting articles
There seems to be a strong force field centred on Burgundy's Côte d'Or driving more and more Americans towards the...
Alder on America
On my recent trip to Austria, I stopped in at one of the city’s more well-regarded chain wine stores, Wein...
Tasting articles
See also California cults cause controversy for reviews of some other California gems tasted recently by Richard who writes: Amassed...
Tasting articles
Next week we'll publish a collection of nearly 100 tasting notes on some more fine California wines. They were tasted...
Alder on America
Clumsy. Overripe. High alcohol. Over oaked. Fruit driven. Massive. Sweet. Made for Mr Parker's Palate.
The historical stereotype of California...
Don't quote me
It is often said that wine takes itself too seriously. That is indeed a grave shortcoming. However, when wine doesn't...
Alder on America
'Mildew, botrytis (pictured, by Koolbe), blue mould, green mould, you name it, it was everywhere. This is the most difficult...
Wines of the week
From $11.99, €14.90, Ca$22.95, £15.95, 29.83 Swiss francs Find this wine It's not often that I recommend a wine that...
Tasting articles
Jim Clendenen of Au Bon Climat, at his loquacious best and with plans to celebrate his son's birthday in Piemonte...
Tasting articles
Much to my regret, only a handful of British wine importers really take American wine seriously. Back in 1980, when...
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