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Tasting articles Opus One 2001–2022

Quite a vertical! In London in November 2025, presented by Opus’s long-standing winemaker. Opus One is the wine world’s seminal joint venture (first vintage 1979), in this case between the...

Sunny garden at Blue Farm
Don't quote me Jancis's diary – November and December 2025

Jet lag, a bad cold, but somehow an awful lot of good wine was enjoyed. This diary is a double helping, covering late October to late December, because this particular...

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Scott Kirkpatrick of Mountain Tides, Petite Sirah specialist
Inside information The reputation, and style, of the humble Durif has been evolving markedly in California. Known for its brooding flavours and...
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Free for all 10 February 2021 If you're looking for the latest information on our Old Vine Register, please see Our Old Vines...
Goose & Gander exterior in St Helena, Napa Valley
Nick on restaurants Travellers' tales continue... When we arrived at 3 pm at the Wine Country Inn in the Napa Valley straight from...
Zinfandel vines in autumn 2019 overlooked by hillsides scorched by the Kincade Fire
Alder on America Reports from the front line of northern California winemakers v fire and those in charge of fighting it. On 23...
Owl box in Napa Valley vineyard just north of St Helena
Tasting articles The youngest Master of Wine assesses some California wines deemed respectively 'collectable' and 'covetable' in London, in less than perfect...
Ken Deaver, owner of the oldest known vineyard in California, Amador County
Inside information In the second half of her two-part analysis of this recovered grape variety, Elaine looks at some current examples of...
Mission vine planted in 1854 in Amador County
Inside information A historic grape variety is emerging from obscurity in California, at the same time as in southern Chile. See also...
Opus One 2016 bottle shot
Wines of the week If value is relative, then Opus One most definitely qualifies (as does a Sonoma Zinfandel at a somewhat lower price)...
Kincade wildfire October 2019
Free for all On-the-spot reports from yet another potentially devastating fire in northern California. Publication times in bold are UK times. Times given...
Beth Novak Milliken of Spottswoode winery in St Helena, Napa Valley
Tasting articles A thoroughly uplifting series of rather atypical Napa Cabernets. One major reason I’m so glad that St Helena gets its...
Map of power cuts in northern California in October 2019
Alder on America How will northern California's power cuts affect this year's vintage? Last week on 8 October California marked a rather sad...
1906 spraying vines by hand
Free for all 20 September 2019 In line with today's Earth Strike Day's events around the globe designed to encourage action in the...
Pierre Lacour's engraving of Bordeaux's Quai des Chartrons
Tasting articles How do the increasing number of non-French wines now being sold in Bordeaux measure up to the wines the Bordeaux...
Ungrafted wine bar in San Francisco
Free for all Rachael Ryan guides us round one of the world’s great wine cities. See also this guide to all the entries...
The Alamo Motel, Los Alamos, southern California
Free for all Joanna Snawder-Manzo enthuses about the town Los Angeles wine aficionados head for at the weekend. You can find links to...
Elaine Chukan Brown and Randall Grahm at Popelouchum vineyard
Inside information 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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