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Mount Eden: One of California’s Oldest and Greatest Producers
Winemaker Jeffrey Patterson, right, with assistant winemaker Sean Geoghegan Mount Eden produces some of the most admirable, consistent and ageworthy expressions of terroir to be found anywhere in...
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2001 Napa Cabernets: Ripeness, High Alcohol & Accelerated Maturity
2001 CALIFORNIA CABERNET SAUVIGNON RETROSPECTIVE – Meadowood, St. Helena, California (2/21/2012) This was one of several tasting events during the course of the three-and-a-half day Wine Writers...
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Silver Oak: Reappraising a California Cabernet Icon
Silver Oak's iconic water tower in OakvilleWhen I talk to people who say they really like California Cabernet, but who don’t otherwise seem all that knowledgeable about wine, nine times out of ten they...
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California Wines Showing More Balance: SF Family Winemakers Tasting
Family Winemakers of California is the primary trade association for the state’s wineries. They lobby—for increased market access, fewer taxes and fees, and less regulation—and they assist members in...
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2013 Update/Cabernet Value Recommendation
Happy 2013!courtesy Wikimedia Commons This will be a shorter post than usual, as I want to communicate a few important things, and because I need to spend the bulk of my free time over the next few...
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Scarecrow: Extraordinary Cabernet From Napa’s Oldest Vines
I take a dim view of the term “cult Cab.” For one thing, I think it’s widely overused and misapplied, mainly in a hyperbolic and aspirational sense, by wine publicists, distributors and retailers. The...
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Grand Daddy of California Wine Events: Family Winemakers San Francisco
2013 Family Winemakers at San Francisco’s Fort MasonThe two-day annual Family Winemakers of California Tasting in San Francisco (FW) is the most comprehensive showing of California wines in the state....
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Thanksgiving with the Mondavis: A Family Reunited and its Rich Legacy
Mondavi family members at the home of Michael and Isabel Mondavi The memorable events described in this piece actually occurred this past weekend–i.e., the weekend before Thanksgiving–and consisted of...
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