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Some promising representatives of the next generation of California wine brands. Above, w inemaker Ryan Pass of Pass Wines (photo by Emma K Creative). There was a time, more than...
Alder Yarrow
Friday 23 January 2026
• 6 min read
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Bonny Doon, Le Cigare Blanc 2022 Central Coast
Richard Hemming MW
Friday 16 January 2026
• 1 min read
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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...
Jancis Robinson
Wednesday 7 January 2026
• 4 min read
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Sonoma’s proposed Petaluma Gap AVA – known for its Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Syrah – is all but approved but...
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In 2009 Dan Petroski launched the entirely white-wine-focused brand Massican, sourcing fruit from iconic Napa Valley vineyards. In 2012, fruit...
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18 May The story below is likely to have important ramifications for the US wine business, so we thought we...
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See also The politics of Zin. A recent wine event in Croatia was dedicated to a single grape variety, but...
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The exceptionally heavy and much-appreciated rains seen in California this winter have people through the region feeling as though California’s...
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The 51st publication in our series of entries into our wine writing competition comes from one of our youngest entrants...
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This article has been syndicated. As you read this, be aware that, wherever I am in the world (just back...
Alder on America
Less than 100 miles separates Napa Valley from Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, a sprawling, leafy campus that is as...
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A version of this article is published by the Financial Times. Jancis writes I apologise for far too many pictures...
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I have been enjoying Kistler wines for virtually as long as they have been available, soon after the enterprise was...
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Last week the University of California at Davis announced that Warren Winiarski (right), founder and former proprietor of Stag’s Leap...
Alder on America
This past Saturday, 11 February, an estimated four thousand people gathered on Ocean Beach in San Francisco to offer a...
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Rajat Parr (pictured right tasting from tank) and Sashi Moorman (pictured below in the Seven Springs Vineyard) of Domaine de...
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This autumn I was able to spend time with Antoine Donnedieu de Vabres, general manager of the Eisele Vineyard, previously...
Alder on America
Fifteen years ago, at the height of wine critic Robert Parker’s influence and fame, WIRED magazine wrote an article about...
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