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Santa Barbara County has a great deal to offer. A slightly shorter version of this article is published by the Financial Times. Above, Sta Rita Hills from the terrace of...
Jancis Robinson
Saturday 15 November 2025
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The wines of Santa Barbara County
Jancis Robinson
Friday 14 November 2025
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. Earlier this month I was invited...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times. For some typically lively discussion on...
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$209 for six bottles Buy these wines I'm very aware that some of our wines of the week are not...
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Yesterday 1,000 of the major players in Silicon Valley and the global media gathered at the Tuileries in Paris for...
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9 May – Michael Schmidt adds from Germany: In many wine regions of Germany, 4 May was a day of...
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Will the wheeling and dealing never end for Jean-Charles Boisset (pictured) and William Foley? Boisset Family Estates, based in Burgundy...
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The death earlier today of Jess Stonestreet Jackson, founder of California’s Kendall-Jackson Winery and owner of numerous other wine brands...
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9 Mar - Moderator Eric Asimov has contacted me to point out that in fact no one in the gathering...
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The wine trade is never quickest off the mark. We published a set of wine consumer New Year's resolutions on...
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The 2007 vintage was one in which most California Cabernet Sauvignon producers made delicious and, in many cases, superb wines...
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It is rare for California to have a mediocre Cabernet Sauvignon crop. Typical abundant sunshine, high summer temperatures and absence...
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Justin Vineyards & Winery, one of Paso Robles' finest and most visible wine producers, has been sold to FIJI Water...
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PARKER LOCKED OUT OF HALL OF FAME The Vintners Hall of Fame, headquartered at the Culinary Institute of America's Greystone...
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As was demonstrated in the recent blind tasting of New World Pinot Noirs, we don't see nearly enough fine American...
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Keen followers of this site and its idiosyncrasies will know that one of our favourite charities is Room to Read...
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Ready or not, here comes winter, and with it the end to the 2010 growing season in not-so-sunny Northern California...
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