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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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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
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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This Napa cult wine enters a new phase of life. Above, Grace Family's Cornelius Vineyard, photographed by Suzanne Becker Bronk...
Alder on America
A little corner of Germany and Austria in Lodi (photo of Mokelumne Glen Vineyard by Randy Caparoso).
Psychologists analysing paratroopers...
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Gwendolyn Alley, winner of the WWC 23 judges' mentorship prize, takes part in an amicable showdown between Paso Robles and...
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'The finest wine region in California that no one knows about' profiled, and pictured above by Wildly Simple Productions, courtesy...
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28 June 2023 The Old Vine Registry has just been launched! See this article for background.
9 February 2023 Exciting...
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26 January 2023 Since ZinEx, a three-day celebration of Zinfandel, kicks off this evening in San Francisco, we’re dedicating our...
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California has come a long way from the jammy monster Zins of the 1980s.
Note to California readers: ZinEX 2023...
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A roster of freshness coming from some top-notch US wine producers.
UK importer Flint Wines' retail branch, Stannary Wine has...
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Some of the world's top Cabernets compared blind. So where does Bordeaux stand? See also Whither Bordeaux?
In 1982 David...
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An update on what is arguably Napa Valley's most French-influenced estate, a sister property to Bordeaux first growth Château Latour...
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Top tips around an unlikely theme from someone who knows how to sniff out the bargains.
It’s a common criticism...
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Our Pacific Northwest specialist was one of two top US performers in this year's Stage 1 MW exams and has...
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30 November 2022 In their 1 and 2 December London sale, Christie's will be offering 60 lots of Ridge wine...
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An historic vertical tasting of the jewel in Ridge's crown and a selection of Napa wines that – hallelujah –...
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Their enduring Napa partnership has resulted in exemplary wines of structure, elegance and transparency. Winemaker Nigel Kinsman is pictured above...
Alder on America
Currently hardly more than 10% of those who serve alcohol in California have completed the training and testing that has...
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