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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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This follows on from Paso Robles – Rhône varieties published yesterday. Following Prohibition, Zinfandel became the workhorse grape for the...
Alder on America
A week ago on Sunday 7 February 2016 something astonishing occurred in America. For the first time in its 50-year...
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See also Paso Robles – other grapes.
While the history of Paso Robles wine sits with Zinfandel and its associated...
Tasting articles
Elaine continues her series on the wines of Santa Barbara County. See also Tuesday's Chardonnays and yesterday's Pinots. Seen here...
Tasting articles
We continue Elaine's detailed reports on the wines of Santa Barbara County. See yesterday's look at Chardonnay. Pinot Noir from...
Tasting articles
This is the first of a series of articles about the exciting wines of Santa Barbara County. Santa Barbara County...
Alder on America
In the early 2000s, when my aspirations to own wine began to move beyond the small rack of a dozen...
Alder on America
Forget the drought. Grapevines can deal with water shortages. Some California winegrowers have an even bigger problem these days: marijuana...
Tasting articles
See our guide to all of this season's compilations. Jancis writes: Below are a massive 195 reviews of wines grown...
Tasting articles
See also Ridge – a California exception , an account of celebrations of the winery’s half-century published in 2010.
One...
Nick on restaurants
14 October 2015 Yesterday Danny Meyer, head of Union Square Hospitality and the most respected restaurateur in New York, perhaps...
Don't quote me
It started with a tweet. I had just got back from Australia having literally tasted hundreds of Australian wines from...
Tasting articles
The contrast between my two visits to taste the Carlisle wines of Mike Officer could hardly be more marked. The...
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Matthew Gaughan used to work for the estimable Manchester wine retailer Hanging Ditch before his heart relocated him to Napa...
Free for all
20 Aug 2015 Richard spotted this vintage article, written in late 2001. It's rather fun to re-read it today and...
Tasting articles
By the early 2000s, Cal-Ital was dead. It was almost impossible to sell California wine made from Italian cultivars. During...
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