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Inside information It was three years ago next month that Warren Winiarski handed over the keys to Stag's Leap Wine Cellars to...

Tasting articles This year Bart and Daphne Araujo will make their 20th vintage at the property they bought from Milt and Barbara...

Inside information Award-winning winemaker Rianie Strydom of Haskell Vineyards (left) has just returned from Napa Valley, where she was the first South...

Inside information Since its first all-aboard in 1989, the Napa Valley Wine Train has been both a rail spike to the heart...

Free for all After six years, thousands of public comments, vociferous debate and some hard feelings, Chateau Montelena, Araujo, Clos Pegase and other...

Inside information FINE Wine Magazines, run from Finland but with editions in many important wine markets, have just released their stab at...

Nick on restaurants This article was also published in the Financial Times. Twenty years ago on our first family holiday to a wine-producing...

Free for all This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. How's this for an idea? You...

Inside information It was a relaxed Tim Mondavi who showed me around his Continuum Estate, high atop Pritchard Hill in eastern Napa...

Inside information The revolving doors at Napa Valley wineries are sorely in need of greasing, as a number of high-profile vintners have...

Inside information Details are sketchy, but the sale of Chateau Montelena, Napa Valley landmark winery, to Swiss businessman Michel Reybier, owner of...

Inside information The best known running joke in California wine country is of course: How do you make a small fortune in...

Free for all This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. One of the most difficult questions...

Inside information As the sommelier and beverage manager for the Culinary Institute of America in St Helena, California, housed in the Greystone...

Free for all Tom Shelton, former Joseph Phelps Winery president/CEO and a leader in the efforts to protect the integrity of the Napa...

Inside information Quite a ruckus was raised in Napa Valley last week. First, there was the shock announcement that Chateau Montelena is...