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Trinchero purchases Mumm Napa, Chablis updates AOC, Canada sells off US booze
Plus Mendoza’s recent embrace of copper mining and the end of the Sud de France moniker on wine labels. Above, a view of Chablis. Before I get to global news...
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Friday 19 December 2025
• 3 min read
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California's coolest county
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
• 1 min read
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The wines of Santa Barbara County
Jancis Robinson
Friday 14 November 2025
• 19 min read
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California is blessed with the climate and soils to grow just about any grape, and indeed, winemakers throw a multitude...
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Those who mourn 'the good old days' of less ripe, less alcoholic, ageworthy California Cabernet Sauvignons can take comfort that...
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At last, Tim Mondavi has coughed up details on the wine he’s launching with his father, Robert, stepmother Margrit and...
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Sonoma County’s Chateau St Jean produces a prodigious volume of remarkably good wine (400,000 cases per year), cutting a wide...
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In California, particularly in its two most important wine regions, Napa and Sonoma, most vintages are considered to be “excellent”...
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In Northern California wine country, the biggest buzz hasn’t been about the drawn-out grape harvest, but about the European arbiter...
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Linda Murphy writes: The last three years have been disheartening, to put it mildly, for Sonoma Valley winemaking icon Richard...
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Linda Murphy writes: Generally, Americans love wines that are rich, ripe and concentrated, and we’re derided for that. But can...
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California billionaire vintner Jess Jackson has expanded his legacy by buying another. Jackson and his wife, Barbara Banke, confirmed that...
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The British wine trade is deeply jealous of Majestic Wine Warehouses. They keep on making more and more money without...
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Vast American/Australian wine conglomerate Constellation's bid for the entire Mondavi Corporation makes a lot of sense, but I wonder whether...
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So Michael Mondavi has been shown the door by his fellow directors of the beleaguered wine company that bears his...
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