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Jancis's diary – October 2025
Two fabulous weekends, and a lot of tasting. The Tuscan weekend is exemplified by the outdoor Sunday lunch pictured above (unthinkable in London). I write this just before taking off...
Jancis Robinson
Monday 3 November 2025
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Jancis's diary - September 2025
Jancis Robinson
Wednesday 1 October 2025
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This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Robert Mondavi Winery on the Oakville bench of Napa Valley. To celebrate...
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Do a book search for Napa on Amazon, or any other Internet bookstore of your choice, and you will immediately...
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Matthew Gaughan used to work for the estimable Manchester wine retailer Hanging Ditch before his heart relocated him to Napa...
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This article has been syndicated. See th e associated tasting notes o n Inglenook and Kapcsandy (and Stag's Leap Wine...
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The Kapcsandy and Inglenook tasting notes below should be read in conjunction with today's article First-growth influences in Napa Valley...
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Maureen Downey of Chai Consulting, best-known for her work fighting counterfeit wines, provides this survey of 55 current Napa Valley...
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Cakebread have been making Chardonnay in the Napa Valley for 42 years, Bruce Cakebread (pictured) told us while introducing a...
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Napa Valley has arguably overtaken the Médoc and St-Émilion/Pomerol as the world’s centre of wine-based financial optimism. There is no...
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One of many reasons for my recent trip to South and North America was to at long last accept an...
Alder on America
The 2014 harvest is under way in California, but in Napa, instead of enjoying a beer in between loads of...
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In the early hours of Sunday morning, northern California experienced its strongest earthquake since 1989 and the epicentre was frighteningly...
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This was first published on 26 February on Purple Pages but we are re-publishing it today as part of our...
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See California Wine Summit – a guide.This was the penultimate tasting of the Summit, kindly hosted by Silver Oak (left)...
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It's high time I shared these observations on a vertical of one of the Napa Valley's most historic fine wines...
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