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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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Sonoma County’s Chateau St Jean produces a prodigious volume of remarkably good wine (400,000 cases per year), cutting a wide...
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In California, particularly in its two most important wine regions, Napa and Sonoma, most vintages are considered to be “excellent”...
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In Northern California wine country, the biggest buzz hasn’t been about the drawn-out grape harvest, but about the European arbiter...
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Linda Murphy writes: The last three years have been disheartening, to put it mildly, for Sonoma Valley winemaking icon Richard...
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Linda Murphy writes: Generally, Americans love wines that are rich, ripe and concentrated, and we’re derided for that. But can...
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California billionaire vintner Jess Jackson has expanded his legacy by buying another. Jackson and his wife, Barbara Banke, confirmed that...
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11 July 2019 We thought it would be interesting to resurrect this 2005 article to show how things have changed...
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The British wine trade is deeply jealous of Majestic Wine Warehouses. They keep on making more and more money without...
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Vast American/Australian wine conglomerate Constellation's bid for the entire Mondavi Corporation makes a lot of sense, but I wonder whether...
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So Michael Mondavi has been shown the door by his fellow directors of the beleaguered wine company that bears his...
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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...
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