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Free for all In our family we were particularly sad to learn that Margrit Biever Mondavi died at the end of last week...

Tasting articles Coombsville just south east of the town of Napa (see this map) became an official appellation in 2011 and since...

Free for all A shorter version of this article is published by the Financial Times. When his grandson asks him why he is...

Tasting articles See also That Paris judgment 40 years on. Jancis writes On this Fourth of July it seems appropriate to consider...

Tasting articles This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Robert Mondavi Winery on the Oakville bench of Napa Valley. To celebrate...

Alder on America Things are getting nasty in Napa. On Monday 4 April the Napa County Planning Commission expected to make a decision...

Alder on America Every winter, just as the yellow mustard flowers reach their peak of brightness between the vineyard rows, the Symposium for...

Alder on America Do a book search for Napa on Amazon, or any other Internet bookstore of your choice, and you will immediately...

Free for all Matthew Gaughan used to work for the estimable Manchester wine retailer Hanging Ditch before his heart relocated him to Napa...

Free for all This article has been syndicated. See th e associated tasting notes o n Inglenook and Kapcsandy (and Stag's Leap Wine...

Tasting articles The Kapcsandy and Inglenook tasting notes below should be read in conjunction with today's article First-growth influences in Napa Valley...

Tasting articles Maureen Downey of Chai Consulting, best-known for her work fighting counterfeit wines, provides this survey of 55 current Napa Valley...

Tasting articles Cakebread have been making Chardonnay in the Napa Valley for 42 years, Bruce Cakebread (pictured) told us while introducing a...

Tasting articles Napa Valley has arguably overtaken the Médoc and St-Émilion/Pomerol as the world’s centre of wine-based financial optimism. There is no...

Tasting articles One of many reasons for my recent trip to South and North America was to at long last accept an...

Alder on America The 2014 harvest is under way in California, but in Napa, instead of enjoying a beer in between loads of...