Napa’s vignerons are proud of their 2021s, coming between the often smoke-tainted 2020 vintage and the 2022, compromised by punishing heat. Come back tomorrow for the second half of this report. See also Where Napa Valley is now.
Jancis writes Napa Valley Vintners (NVV), both members and organisation, deserve a big thank you from us wine writers. They supply a model amount of information – so much so that when uploading my tasting notes, deputy editor Andrew Morris had a record-low number of queries for me.
When the Vintners know that we’d like to taste the wines of...