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Free for all When Napa met Bordeaux

The first transatlantic joint venture Opus One involved icons of 20th century wine. A version of this article is published in the Financial Times. See also Opus One 1979–2000 and...

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Alder on America Fifteen years ago, at the height of wine critic Robert Parker’s influence and fame, WIRED magazine wrote an article about...
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Free for all Updated substantially on 5 January Just hours after the shock news that somms' darling Clos Rougeard of Saumur had been...
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Alder on America In the late 1970s, geophysicist Marion King Hubbard introduced the world to a concept that later became known as ‘peak...
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Free for all 29 September 2016 We are republishing this two-year-old article about the Napa Valley wine producer Spottswoode in memory of its...
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Tasting articles See also Napa Valley Cabernets – depressing? and Napa Valley sub-appellations – heartening? With its diversity of soils and mesoclimates...
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Tasting articles Elaine’s review last week of Cabernets with the general Napa Valley appellation stirred up some strong reactions, including on our...
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Tasting articles In the first of two major reports on current releases of Napa Valley appellation Cabernets, her first for JancisRobinson.com, Elaine...
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Free for all In our family we were particularly sad to learn that Margrit Biever Mondavi died at the end of last week...
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Tasting articles Coombsville just south east of the town of Napa (see this map) became an official appellation in 2011 and since...
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Free for all A shorter version of this article is published by the Financial Times. When his grandson asks him why he is...
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Tasting articles See also That Paris judgment 40 years on. Jancis writes On this Fourth of July it seems appropriate to consider...
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Tasting articles This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Robert Mondavi Winery on the Oakville bench of Napa Valley. To celebrate...
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Alder on America Things are getting nasty in Napa. On Monday 4 April the Napa County Planning Commission expected to make a decision...
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Alder on America Every winter, just as the yellow mustard flowers reach their peak of brightness between the vineyard rows, the Symposium for...
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Alder on America Do a book search for Napa on Amazon, or any other Internet bookstore of your choice, and you will immediately...
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Free for all Matthew Gaughan used to work for the estimable Manchester wine retailer Hanging Ditch before his heart relocated him to Napa...
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