California wine Archives

With cultivation and consumption now legal in many US states, cannabis is leaving its illicit past behind. But is weed…

By Jim Clarke

Kathleen Burk reviews On California: From Napa to Nebbiolo… Wine Tales from The Golden State by Susan Keevil (ed). This…

By Kathleen Burk

Stephen Brook on Acaibo, a promising release from Gonzague Lurton and Claire Villars-Lurton’s young project in Sonoma’s Chalk Hill AVA.…

By Stephen Brook

Pork belly bánh mì: a twist on sliders with slaw by Dominic Orsini, the winery chef at Napa and Alexander…

By Joanna Simon

Inspired by a recent trip to California, Benjamin Lewin MW explores the ways in which winemakers assess ripeness, and the…

By Benjamin Lewin MW

After years providing fruit for some of the Napa Valley’s best producers from their Vine Hill Ranch vineyard, Bruce Phillips…

By Margaret Rand

Alex Kongsgaard tells Kelli White about his latest venture, The Alexes, a range of three Chardonnays that has already attained…

By Kelli White

It was probably Jack Davies at Schramsberg who told me there was something exciting going on on the other side…

By Hugh Johnson