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Jancis's diary - September 2025
Jancis Robinson
Wednesday 1 October 2025
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. How's this for an idea? You...
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It was a relaxed Tim Mondavi who showed me around his Continuum Estate, high atop Pritchard Hill in eastern Napa...
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Details are sketchy, but the sale of Chateau Montelena, Napa Valley landmark winery, to Swiss businessman Michel Reybier, owner of...
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As the sommelier and beverage manager for the Culinary Institute of America in St Helena, California, housed in the Greystone...
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Tom Shelton, former Joseph Phelps Winery president/CEO and a leader in the efforts to protect the integrity of the Napa...
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This article was also published in the Financial Times. It was to be a demanding if pleasurable finale to our...
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Writing my 200+ tasting notes on current-release Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignons is an interesting exercise when one knows the notes...
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The news that Barney Rhodes, 88, of Rutherford, Napa Valley, has passed on to the great cellar in the sky...
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Napa ’s new look Linda Murphy sent the report below last weekend, promising a more detailed visitor’s guide to the...
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Tony Soter is one of California’s (and now Oregon’s) most talented winemakers, turning the wines of Araujo, Niebaum-Coppola, Spottswoode, Viader...
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