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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
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Jancis Robinson
Friday 14 November 2025
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With my colleagues Stephen Brook and Margaret Rand, I had the pleasure of taking part in a blind tasting of...
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Reports that surfaced on 4 Jun that Sonoma's swank Chalk Hill Estate Vineyards & Winery was for sale have been...
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In 2008 when the news hit that Fred and Peggy Furth, owners of Sonoma County's esteemed Chalk Hill Estate Winery...
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News reaches us that Albion 'Al' Fenderson, the eminence grise of sales and marketing at Gallo, has died at the...
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Once again, Northern California-based Silicon Valley Bank has peered into its crystal ball to prognosticate what's ahead for the US...
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The annual California Grape Crush Report and Grape Acreage Report show that the 2009 vintage was the second-largest wine grape...
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Wines & Vines magazine, based in California, reports that the number of North American wineries grew by 361 in the...
Nick on restaurants
This article was also published in the Financial Times.
Hrishikesh Shridar Desai, known as Richi, is currently cooking at The...
Nick on restaurants
This article was also published in the Financial Times. Alice Waters, the founder of Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley, California...
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E&J Gallo's first and only public tasting room, located on the tourism yellow brick road that is the Healdsburg plaza...
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Contrary to some knee-jerk reports, the wine sky is not falling on Napa Valley, although a quarantine has been placed...
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This is a longer version of an article also published in the Financial Times.
See full tasting notes on Purple...
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Last week I had the enormous treat of tasting dozens of top quality wines, many of them very mature, from...
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From $32.99, £28.49, Can$48.95, also in Denmark, Sweden and Liechtenstein Find this wine
I have long been a fan of...
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The California Department of Food and Agriculture’s 2009 Preliminary Grape Crush Report, released yesteday, shows that the 2009 vintage is...
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Since its first all-aboard in 1989, the Napa Valley Wine Train has been both a rail spike to the heart...
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