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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
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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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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times.
See full tasting notes on Purple...
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Last week I had the enormous treat of tasting dozens of top quality wines, many of them very mature, from...
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I have long been a fan of...
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The California Department of Food and Agriculture’s 2009 Preliminary Grape Crush Report, released yesteday, shows that the 2009 vintage is...
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Since its first all-aboard in 1989, the Napa Valley Wine Train has been both a rail spike to the heart...
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The super-fastidious New York Times published a story on Sunday in which writer Frances Dinkelspiel detailed the opposition in northern...
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In Europe, the enforced shrinkage of EU vineyards summarised in Dec 2007 in EU reform – as good as it...
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Although the US is now one of the three most successful exporters of wine to the UK, thanks chiefly to...
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Low tech, high tech, is how Paul Draper (pictured here) described their approach at Ridge in the Santa Cruz mountains...
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I recently received the following touching email from Rheingau-raised California winemaker Walter Schug and thought it appropriate to publish it...
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