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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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I could hardly believe how green the vineyards of the Napa Valley were already in mid April. They looked almost...
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The American wine market seems to me even more plagued by generalisations – especially those pertaining to vintage assessments. The...
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A long-standing purple pager in Brazil asked whether I'd care to comment on the news that Robert Mondavi, arguably the...
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Here are notes on a wide range of Californian wines tasted over the past few months. Wines are arranged with...
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Smokers to the right, smokers to the left. All around are red-and-white checked napkins and tablecloths; on the walls inter...
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At a gigantic tasting of the current wares of Britain's most wine-minded supermarket Waitrose this week I was bowled over...
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Take a look at www.grapes-wine.com, the website of Turrentine Wine Brokerage in California. It's salutory to see just how much...
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I'm publishing this article having been inspired by some current tasting notes on Sean Thackrey's wines in purple pages. It...
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I heard a rumour that the proposed bill that would restrict distribution of wines and spirits within California to a...
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One of our beloved multinationals, Diageo, based here in London but with tentacles across the globe (not least in the...
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11 May 2002 – more than 80 additional tasting notes on current Californian releases have been added. Alas, too many...
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John Hicks of Maurice Carrie Winery and Van Roekel Vineyards contacted me the other day to ask why I had...
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