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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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Reports that surfaced on 4 Jun that Sonoma's swank Chalk Hill Estate Vineyards & Winery was for sale have been...
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In 2008 when the news hit that Fred and Peggy Furth, owners of Sonoma County's esteemed Chalk Hill Estate Winery...
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News reaches us that Albion 'Al' Fenderson, the eminence grise of sales and marketing at Gallo, has died at the...
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Once again, Northern California-based Silicon Valley Bank has peered into its crystal ball to prognosticate what's ahead for the US...
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The annual California Grape Crush Report and Grape Acreage Report show that the 2009 vintage was the second-largest wine grape...
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Wines & Vines magazine, based in California, reports that the number of North American wineries grew by 361 in the...
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This article was also published in the Financial Times.
Hrishikesh Shridar Desai, known as Richi, is currently cooking at The...
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This article was also published in the Financial Times. Alice Waters, the founder of Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley, California...
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E&J Gallo's first and only public tasting room, located on the tourism yellow brick road that is the Healdsburg plaza...
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Contrary to some knee-jerk reports, the wine sky is not falling on Napa Valley, although a quarantine has been placed...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times.
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Last week I had the enormous treat of tasting dozens of top quality wines, many of them very mature, from...
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The California Department of Food and Agriculture’s 2009 Preliminary Grape Crush Report, released yesteday, shows that the 2009 vintage is...
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Since its first all-aboard in 1989, the Napa Valley Wine Train has been both a rail spike to the heart...
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The super-fastidious New York Times published a story on Sunday in which writer Frances Dinkelspiel detailed the opposition in northern...
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