Free for all WWC 31 – Kathy Merchant The 31st entrant into our wine writing competition, Kathy Merchant, hails from... 27 Feb 2017 Guest contributor
Alder on America Enologix – same as it ever was in Napa Fifteen years ago, at the height of wine critic Robert Parker’s influence... 16 Jan 2017 Alder Yarrow
Free for all US sports mogul buys in to Corton-Charlemagne Updated substantially on 5 January Just hours after the shock news that... 4 Jan 2017 Jancis Robinson
Alder on America Napa's increasingly attractive neighbour In the late 1970s, geophysicist Marion King Hubbard introduced the world to... 17 Oct 2016 Alder Yarrow
Free for all Spottswoode – and their excellent 2011 Cabs 29 September 2016 We are republishing this two-year-old article about the Napa... 29 Sep 2016 Jancis Robinson
Tasting articles Napa Merlot – the Cinderella grape See also Napa Valley Cabernets – depressing? and Napa Valley sub-appellations –... 27 Sep 2016 Elaine Chukan Brown
Tasting articles Napa Valley sub-appellations – heartening? Elaine’s review last week of Cabernets with the general Napa Valley appellation... 14 Sep 2016 Elaine Chukan Brown
Tasting articles Napa Valley Cabernets – depressing? In the first of two major reports on current releases of Napa... 7 Sep 2016 Elaine Chukan Brown
Free for all Farewell Margrit Mondavi In our family we were particularly sad to learn that Margrit Biever... 5 Sep 2016 Jancis Robinson
Tasting articles Coombsville – Napa's south-eastern extremity Coombsville just south east of the town of Napa (see this map)... 18 Jul 2016 Elaine Chukan Brown
Free for all That Paris judgment 40 years on A shorter version of this article is published by the Financial Times... 9 Jul 2016 Jancis Robinson
Tasting articles Napa Valley veterans See also That Paris judgment 40 years on.Jancis writes On this Fourth... 4 Jul 2016 Julia Harding MW Jancis Robinson
Tasting articles Mondavi retrospective – a Napa history lesson This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Robert Mondavi Winery on... 14 Jun 2016 Elaine Chukan Brown
Alder on America NIMBY in Napa Things are getting nasty in Napa. On Monday 4 April the Napa... 14 Apr 2016 Alder Yarrow
Alder on America British wine scribes invade Napa Every winter, just as the yellow mustard flowers reach their peak of... 16 Mar 2016 Alder Yarrow
Alder on America Napa's new reference point Do a book search for Napa on Amazon, or any other Internet... 17 Nov 2015 Alder Yarrow