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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
Don't quote me
Jancis's diary – November and December 2025
Jancis Robinson
Friday 2 January 2026
• 1 min read
Tasting articles
Alder's most memorable California wines 2025
Alder Yarrow
Wednesday 31 December 2025
• 2 min read
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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...
Free for all
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...
Free for all
This article has been syndicated. I realised a long-standing ambition earlier this year. I finally got to enjoy Jim Clendenen’s...
Alder on America
It’s not so much of a heatwave as it is a suffocating blanket. Until yesterday, 14 July, the Walla Walla...
Nick on restaurants
This is a version of an article also published by the Financial Times. There were palm trees to our immediate...
Alder on America
To say that the economy of California’s Yuba County peaked during the gold rush and has been in slow decline...
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This is a longer version of an article published by the Financial Times. See also my detailed tasting notes. Imagine...
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