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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
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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
Plus Mendoza’s recent embrace of copper mining and the end of the Sud de France moniker on wine labels. Above, a view of Chablis. Before I get to global news...
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Friday 19 December 2025
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See inside information for lots of techie stuff on Opus One.
This was a fascinating tasting through history. The first...
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How Opus One was made in the early years of this century.
I thought it might interest the more technically...
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I could hardly believe how green the vineyards of the Napa Valley were already in mid April. They looked almost...
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The American wine market seems to me even more plagued by generalisations – especially those pertaining to vintage assessments. The...
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A long-standing purple pager in Brazil asked whether I'd care to comment on the news that Robert Mondavi, arguably the...
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Here are notes on a wide range of Californian wines tasted over the past few months. Wines are arranged with...
Nick on restaurants
Smokers to the right, smokers to the left. All around are red-and-white checked napkins and tablecloths; on the walls inter...
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At a gigantic tasting of the current wares of Britain's most wine-minded supermarket Waitrose this week I was bowled over...
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Take a look at www.grapes-wine.com, the website of Turrentine Wine Brokerage in California. It's salutory to see just how much...
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I'm publishing this article having been inspired by some current tasting notes on Sean Thackrey's wines in purple pages. It...
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I heard a rumour that the proposed bill that would restrict distribution of wines and spirits within California to a...
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One of our beloved multinationals, Diageo, based here in London but with tentacles across the globe (not least in the...
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11 May 2002 – more than 80 additional tasting notes on current Californian releases have been added. Alas, too many...
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John Hicks of Maurice Carrie Winery and Van Roekel Vineyards contacted me the other day to ask why I had...
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