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Opus One 2001–2022
Quite a vertical! In London in November 2025, presented by Opus’s long-standing winemaker. Opus One is the wine world’s seminal joint venture (first vintage 1979), in this case between the...
Jancis Robinson
Wednesday 7 January 2026
• 4 min read
Don't quote me
Jancis's diary – November and December 2025
Jancis Robinson
Friday 2 January 2026
• 1 min read
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Alder's most memorable California wines 2025
Alder Yarrow
Wednesday 31 December 2025
• 2 min read
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Could it be that the 12.5% alcohol California table wine, a regular feature of the 1970s, will return? That's quite...
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This year Bart and Daphne Araujo will make their 20th vintage at the property they bought from Milt and Barbara...
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Stéphane Derenoncourt, the St-Émilion-based, globe-trotting winemaking consultant, has finally landed in California, not only as an advisor to Francis Ford...
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Leave it to Jean-Charles Boisset (pictured left at his new bar) to offer tastings and sales of Burgundy wines on...
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So much is in flux in the Golden State wine industry that I sometimes find myself anaesthetised to the daily...
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With my colleagues Stephen Brook and Margaret Rand, I had the pleasure of taking part in a blind tasting of...
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Reports that surfaced on 4 Jun that Sonoma's swank Chalk Hill Estate Vineyards & Winery was for sale have been...
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In 2008 when the news hit that Fred and Peggy Furth, owners of Sonoma County's esteemed Chalk Hill Estate Winery...
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News reaches us that Albion 'Al' Fenderson, the eminence grise of sales and marketing at Gallo, has died at the...
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Once again, Northern California-based Silicon Valley Bank has peered into its crystal ball to prognosticate what's ahead for the US...
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The annual California Grape Crush Report and Grape Acreage Report show that the 2009 vintage was the second-largest wine grape...
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Wines & Vines magazine, based in California, reports that the number of North American wineries grew by 361 in the...
Nick on restaurants
This article was also published in the Financial Times.
Hrishikesh Shridar Desai, known as Richi, is currently cooking at The...
Nick on restaurants
This article was also published in the Financial Times. Alice Waters, the founder of Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley, California...
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E&J Gallo's first and only public tasting room, located on the tourism yellow brick road that is the Healdsburg plaza...
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Contrary to some knee-jerk reports, the wine sky is not falling on Napa Valley, although a quarantine has been placed...
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