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The wines of Château Montelena, Napa, California

Website: https://montelena.com/ Historic Napa winery Chateau Montelena dates back to 1882. This is when Alfred L. Tubbs planted the vineyard

Website: https://www.bigbasinvineyards.com/ Bradley Brown founded Big Basin Vineyards after a career in Silicon Valley. He’s based in the Santa Cruz

Website: https://calder.securecheckout.com/ Calder is the label of Rory Williams, son of John Williams of Frog’s Leap. Rory’s day job is

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Jolie-Laide is a micronegociant operation from Scott and Jenny Schultz, and it’s a small 3000 case affair. Scott worked with

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There are just 75 acres of Charbono left on the planet, say Shypoke Winery. This isn’t strictly true, if you

Much like the Gamay of Beaujolais, twenty years ago País was seen as fit for only commonplace, lowly table wine.

This is brilliant. Napa is often knocked for its excess: Cabernet Sauvignon wines made from grapes picked too late, spoofed

Website: https://www.ibrandwinery.com/ I don’t know much about winemaker Ian Brand’s project in California, but I saw this wine, bought it,

Syrah from a cool-ish climate in California. It’s a variety you’d think would be thriving in California, but it hasn’t

Merry Edwards began her winemaking career in the 1970s at Mount Eden Estate, and has also worked at Matanzas Creek.