TOR: high-end Cabernet from Napa
Tor Kenward spent 27 years with Beringer. When he retired in 2001, he set up his own winery, TOR Wines,
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California
Highlights: Enfield Wine Co Waterhorse Ridge Cabernet Sauvignon 2016
Take everything you know of Cali Cab and throw it away. Then taste this graceful wine. From Sonoma County’s tiny
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Highlights: The Ojai Vineyard Chardonnay Bien Nacido Vineyard 2017 Santa Maria Valley, California
Adam Tolmach began his wine career at Zaca Mesa in Santa Barbara County. Before long he decided to do his
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Harvesting Chardonnay in Carneros, Napa
In September 2015 I joined the Truchard winery in Carneros, Napa Valley, for some harvest experience, picking and processing Chardonnay
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Abe Schoener: the thought-leader vigneron, opening a new urban winery in LA
Abe Schoener, ex-philosophy professor, is the winemaker behind the Scholium Project, an innovative Californian micronegociant winery that’s hard to put
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New releases from Domaine de la Côte and Sandhi
I first met Raj Parr at a dinner in London some eight years ago, when he was presenting his wines
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Bedrock Wine Co, California
Trying the wines from Morgan Twain-Peterson’s boutique winery focusing on California’s heritage of old vineyards, many of them field blends.
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Some fine Californian wines from UK importer Roberson
Roberson wine have, for some time now, been championing new-wave Californian wines in the UK, and they have gathered an
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Petaluma Gap, a new-ish AVA on the Sonoma Coast
A quick look at six wines from California’s newest AVA Do we need more wine appellations? Especially when some of
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The 2017 Pinot Noirs from Kutch
One of California’s leading producers of Pinot Noir It was great to be able to taste the new releases from
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