Smart Americans

Jancis writes Those of us on the team who are based in the UK are all too aware that we have a very incomplete view of what's going on in American vineyards and cellars. I for one rather envy our two team members based in California, Alder Yarrow in San Francisco and Elaine Chukan Brown in Sonoma (see, for example, her Napa Valley Cabernets – depressing? and Sonoma Cabernet for value), who are able much more easily than us to keep up to date with the West Coast wine scene. I spent some time with Jaime Araujo of Accendo...