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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
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Shadows over northern California
Jancis Robinson
Saturday 27 December 2025
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In our family we were particularly sad to learn that Margrit Biever Mondavi died at the end of last week...
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Coombsville just south east of the town of Napa (see this map) became an official appellation in 2011 and since...
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A shorter version of this article is published by the Financial Times. When his grandson asks him why he is...
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See also That Paris judgment 40 years on. Jancis writes On this Fourth of July it seems appropriate to consider...
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This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Robert Mondavi Winery on the Oakville bench of Napa Valley. To celebrate...
Alder on America
Things are getting nasty in Napa. On Monday 4 April the Napa County Planning Commission expected to make a decision...
Alder on America
Every winter, just as the yellow mustard flowers reach their peak of brightness between the vineyard rows, the Symposium for...
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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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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