This diary is a double helping, covering late October to late December, because this particular slot a month ago was occupied by a retrospective of JancisRobinson.com published on 1 December, our 25th anniversary (and, coincidentally, my 50th anniversary as a wine writer).
Between 23 October and 4 November Nick and I were in California, travelling from LA to Napa and Sonoma in unremitting sunshine, as for example shown above in the garden at Anne Moller-Racke’s Blue Farm in the Sonoma section of Los Carneros...
