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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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