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Don't quote me Don't do this at home but the other day I blended a Napa Cab with a Barolo, and enjoyed the...

Free for all A shorter version of this article is published in the Financial Times. See also Smart Americans. At a recent dinner...

Free for all This article has been syndicated. I’m assuming you are interested in wine. If so, you will have noticed that it...

Alder on America What is the defining characteristic of a wine region? The answer depends on who you ask, of course, but typical...

Free for all 19 October 2017 The death toll as a result of these terrible fires in northern California wine country has risen...

Tasting articles In 2009 Dan Petroski launched the entirely white-wine-focused brand Massican, sourcing fruit from iconic Napa Valley vineyards. In 2012, fruit...

Free for all 18 May The story below is likely to have important ramifications for the US wine business, so we thought we...

Tasting articles The exceptionally heavy and much-appreciated rains seen in California this winter have people through the region feeling as though California’s...

Free for all The 31st entrant into our wine writing competition, Kathy Merchant, hails from Cincinnati, Ohio, and describes herself as follows: I...

Alder on America Fifteen years ago, at the height of wine critic Robert Parker’s influence and fame, WIRED magazine wrote an article about...

Free for all Updated substantially on 5 January Just hours after the shock news that somms' darling Clos Rougeard of Saumur had been...

Alder on America In the late 1970s, geophysicist Marion King Hubbard introduced the world to a concept that later became known as ‘peak...

Free for all 29 September 2016 We are republishing this two-year-old article about the Napa Valley wine producer Spottswoode in memory of its...

Tasting articles See also Napa Valley Cabernets – depressing? and Napa Valley sub-appellations – heartening? With its diversity of soils and mesoclimates...

Tasting articles Elaine’s review last week of Cabernets with the general Napa Valley appellation stirred up some strong reactions, including on our...

Tasting articles In the first of two major reports on current releases of Napa Valley appellation Cabernets, her first for JancisRobinson.com, Elaine...