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Pine Ridge Chenin Blanc/Viognier 2024, America
A summer-ready, silky white wine that’s widely available from just $8.99, £20.90 . The sleeper hit of Napa winery Pine Ridge, first made by founder Gary Andrus 30 years ago...
Tara Q Thomas
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20 September 2019 In line with today's Earth Strike Day's events around the globe designed to encourage action in the...
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How do the increasing number of non-French wines now being sold in Bordeaux measure up to the wines the Bordeaux...
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Rachael Ryan guides us round one of the world’s great wine cities. See also this guide to all the entries...
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Joanna Snawder-Manzo enthuses about the town Los Angeles wine aficionados head for at the weekend. You can find links to...
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Elaine Chukan Brown visits Randall Grahm of Bonny Doon's cradle of dreams, his new vineyard well off the beaten track...
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To celebrate 4 July we examine yeasty matters in the Napa Valley.
In 2012 Michael Silacci (pictured), the amiable Opus...
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4 July 2019 Another American contribution f or this week's dive into the archives on Independence Day, we dredge up...
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Connections with the Grateful Dead, Priorat, Macedonia and the southern Rhône drawn on the West Coast by the king of...
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Just what California should be offering us... From $10.97, CA$19.25, €14.90, 16.90 Swiss francs, £16.95, 254 Norwegian kroner Find this...
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Patrick Campbell's iconic Sonoma estate is now under new management. Has it changed? Sonoma County receives far less attention for...
Alder on America
This spring has been just as challenging for vine growers in California as in Italy, it seems. Grapevines are notoriously...
Alder on America
There'a a renaissance of sparkling wine production in the golden state.
I’ve been having something of an unnerving experience of...
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A collection of tasting notes on particularly fine wines. I try to keep a record of all the significant wines...
Alder on America
Alder reports from a West Coast that is, at last, rather damp. It’s spring in California wine country. ‘As the...
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28 March 2019 We go way, way back – 18 years to be precise – for today's Throwback Thursday, chosen...
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A history of US wine exports to Europe. This article has been syndicated. The United States is by far the...
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