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Bonny Doon, Le Cigare Blanc 2022 Central Coast
You need to know this guy . From $23.95 or £21 (2023 vintage). Whenever I mention Bonny Doon, the response I hear most often is ‘I know that guy!’. But...
Richard Hemming MW
Friday 16 January 2026
• 1 min read
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Jancis's diary – November and December 2025
Jet lag, a bad cold, but somehow an awful lot of good wine was enjoyed. This diary is a double helping, covering late October to late December, because this particular...
Jancis Robinson
Friday 2 January 2026
• 1 min read
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Evening Land Vineyards is an exciting and extremely ambitious new project that spans some first class Pinot Noir sites in...
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At least two California producers are doing their bit in sometimes innovative ways for the environment. Fetzer bottles go on...
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From $4.99 and £7. Find this wine Have I gone mad? Choosing a California Chardonnay made by the world’s biggest...
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The best known running joke in California wine country is of course: How do you make a small fortune in...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. One of the most difficult questions...
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You may remember how I marvelled at Screaming Eagle’s vineyard manager Annie Favia in How to make a wine’s reputation...
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Find this wine Never let it be said that we are not topical here at JancisRobinson.com. This week’s wine was...
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I recently tasted this collection of 30 distinctive American wines currently on offer in the UK (that last phrase alone...
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Australia, then France, are the two countries that send most wine to Britain’s increasingly thirsty wine drinkers but the US...
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Flying in to San Francisco last Wednesday was a trial. Haze from Northern California's serious fires, many of them in...
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Hanzell Vineyards, the historic Chardonnay and Pinot Noir producer in California’s Sonoma Valley, has hired a gem of a winemaker...
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As predicted here, Constellation Brands has sold several wine brands it acquired in its December 2007 purchase of Beam Wine...
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Lest anyone think that all California growing seasons are easy and uniform, 2008 comes along to dispel the myth. In...
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Jamie Davies, the “grande dame” of Napa Valley’s Schramsberg Vineyards sparkling wine house, died Feb 12 at her Calistoga estate...
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In the mid 20 th century Inglenook was one of the wine producers that put California on the world map...
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After several years of too much oak, overt buttery character and weak acidity – downright flabby wines – California Chardonnay...
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