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Oregon enters its bubble era
The fine sparkling-wine producers of Oregon are getting organised. Above, Lytle-Barnett’s Windfall vineyard in the Eola-Amity Hills, Oregon (credit: Lester Tsai). Given the state’s facility with Pinot Noir and Chardonnay...
Alder Yarrow
Friday 5 December 2025
• 11 min read
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Germany's tiny 2025 vintage, Oregon wildfire payout, Ram's Gate Winery goes ROC
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Saturday 25 October 2025
• 1 min read
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X marks the spot in the Willamette Valley
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Monday 15 September 2025
• 3 min read
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See Our collected works – a guide. All this week and the beginning of next we'll be presenting more of...
Alder on America
On 10 June, the skies above Napa and Sonoma crackled and boomed with the rare sounds of a spring thunderstorm...
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We continue this week's Pinot Noir theme with a look at the 2010 releases of one of our favourite Oregon...
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Evening Land is an ambitious international wine project becoming no less ambitious but much more international – not least with...
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From $25, £29.95 Find Bergström's 2009s
Here in Europe we see far too few fine American wines. As Alder lamented...
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There seems to be a strong force field centred on Burgundy's Côte d'Or driving more and more Americans towards the...
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The following assortment of notes was gathered at the annual London showing of wines from Washington and Oregon. Together they...
Alder on America
'Mildew, botrytis (pictured, by Koolbe), blue mould, green mould, you name it, it was everywhere. This is the most difficult...
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From $17.55, £16.50, 2,835 yen Find this wine 3 Dec Jane Brooks Heuck elucides: The first barrel of this wine...
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Much to my regret, only a handful of British wine importers really take American wine seriously. Back in 1980, when...
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For more opinions on this, see comments from the forum. Relatively recent Master of Wine Benjamin Lewin has proved an...
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This official report on Oregon's grape harvest suggests that here is yet another wine region where wine quality may be...
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As was demonstrated in the recent blind tasting of New World Pinot Noirs, we don't see nearly enough fine American...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times.
See full tasting notes and scores...
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Last week I had the huge pleasure of taking part in an enormously revealing blind tasting at Hardy's wine bar...
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Oregon, like California, has been experiencing one of the coolest summers in living memory and so far signs are that...
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