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The second tranche of wines reviewed on Jancis’s recent West Coast road trip. Above, the new Overshine Collective, a group of wine producers who are combining their back-office efforts to...
Jancis Robinson
Friday 26 December 2025
• 3 min read
Wine news in 5
Trinchero purchases Mumm Napa, Chablis updates AOC, Canada sells off US booze
Samantha Cole-Johnson
Friday 19 December 2025
• 1 min read
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Here are the tasting notes to accompany today's Happy Thanksgiving article. All these wines were served at a dinner in...
Don't quote me
See my tasting notes on all these wines in Four decades of California Cabs.I'm sure all of us wine lovers...
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See California Wine Summit – a guide.Patrick Comiskey of Wine & Spirits magazine selected and introduced this California Summit tasting...
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See California Wine Summit - a guide.Spanning 500 miles (805 km) and 18 American Viticultural Areas (AVAs), from Anderson Valley...
Alder on America
What does the world look like to those in the midst of a quiet revolution? As with the frog in...
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See California Wine Summit – a guide. Call me a Luddite but I couldn't agree more with Jerry Seps, who...
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See California Wine Summit – a guide.Our one and only sortie into the vineyards during the California Wine Summit was...
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See California Wine Summit – a guide.This must have been the toughest tasting of all during the California Wine Summit...
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See California Wine Summit – a guide.After my [and my – JR] Damascene experience of Ravenswood Old Hill Vineyard Zinfandel...
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See California Wine Summit – a guide.The California Wine Summit, an intense and rewarding week tasting some of the state's...
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Wine press trips would like to be all things to all men and women. Wines of California tried something slightly...
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It's high time I shared these observations on a vertical of one of the Napa Valley's most historic fine wines...
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I'm just back from a week's immersion in California wines thanks to the 'Wine Summit' organised by the California Wine...
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See our guide to this week's comprehensive stocktake on the extent of organic and biodynamic viticulture in the world today...
Alder on America
When it was announced in late July that François Pinault's Artemis Group, owner of Ch Latour, was purchasing Napa Valley's...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times . See my tasting notes on...
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