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Meeting Paul Hobbs and trying his wines: one of the world’s most accomplished consultant winemakers

September 10, 2023September 10, 2023 jamiegoode 8878 Views

One of the best known Californian consultant winemakers is Paul Hobbs. He began making wine at Mondavi in the late

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Highlights: The Alley Palomino 2019 California

August 11, 2023March 5, 2024 jamiegoode 2858 Views

The Alley Palomino 2019 Contra Costa Vineyard, CaliforniaThis is made by Christina Rasmussen, friend and colleague, and I’ve tried it

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Birichino, Santa Cruz, California

August 2, 2023January 9, 2025 jamiegoode 3708 Views

Website: https://www.birichino.com/ Founded by Alex Krause and John Locke in 2008, Birichino (‘ch’ is pronounced ‘k’) began with a focus

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Anderson Valley, California (5) Drew

July 9, 2023January 16, 2024 jamiegoode 4929 Views Anderson Valley

Website: https://www.drewwines.com/ Jason Drew is based just outside the Anderson Valley, on the Mendocino Ridge, about a mile west from

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Anderson Valley, California (6) a big tasting with lots of producers

July 9, 2023January 16, 2024 jamiegoode 5897 Views Anderson Valley

Copain Website: https://www.copainwines.com/ A boutique winery started by Wells Guthrie, I first came across them as part of the In

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Anderson Valley, California (5) Roederer Estate

July 5, 2023January 16, 2024 jamiegoode 4385 Views Anderson Valley, Sparkling wine

In 1982, Jean-Claude Rouzeau – the CEO of Champagne Roederer – was sent to look at the wild west of

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Anderson Valley, California (4) Maggy Hawk

July 5, 2023January 16, 2024 jamiegoode 4837 Views Anderson Valley, pinot noir

Website: https://www.maggyhawk.com/ Maggy Hawk is a beautiful vineyard in the deep end of the Anderson Valley, and I tasted through

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Anderson Valley, California (3) Baxter

July 5, 2023January 16, 2024 jamiegoode 4159 Views Anderson Valley

Website: https://www.baxterwinery.com/ One of the wineries that most impressed me on my visit to the Anderson Valley was Baxter, which

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Anderson Valley, California (2) Littorai

July 4, 2023January 16, 2024 jamiegoode 4890 Views Anderson Valley, pinot noir

The most celebrated Pinots from the Anderson Valley are probably Ted Lemon’s Littorai bottlings. The Anderson Valley makes around half

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Anderson Valley, California (1) where California meets the Pacific Northwest

July 3, 2023January 16, 2024 jamiegoode 4540 Views Anderson Valley

One of California’s less well known wine regions, the Anderson Valley is rapidly developing a reputation as a rather special

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Californians Jasmine Hirsch and Michael Cruse are partners in life and wine, and they came to London to share their

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Wine anorak is one of the leading wine websites. This is the latest version of the site that began life in 1999, and was founded by Jamie Goode, who at the time was working as a science editor.

Since then it has grown, and Jamie is now a full-time wine writer, lecturer, wine judge and book author.

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Disclosure: unless otherwise clearly marked, the articles on this site are free of conflicts of interest. Any sponsored content will be clearly marked, and potential conflicts of interest will also be disclosed. As is normal in the wine industry, many of the wines tasted here are free samples and some travel is sponsored by others (for example, regional bodies or groups of producers), but in these cases no guarantees of coverage are given.

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