“We make over 300 base wines,” Hugh Davies told me, as I stood looking at him with a mouthful of the Schramsberg 2017 Chardonnay base wine needling my tongue. This lean and taut Chardonnay, from a vineyard parcel on the Sonoma Coast, was only …
Tag:
California
David Howell is one of the authorities on Napa geology and he explains how Napa Valley is a very young wine valley, with its geological formation only happening in the last few million years and creating three distinctive soil types. In this exclusive 80 Harvests interview, the geologist and …
What’s the difference between Oak Knoll, Calistoga and Carneros? Winemaker Mia Klein takes us through a terroir tour of some of her top Napa wine regions as we taste a couple of her Selene Wines and talk about dirt, shoots and leaves in this …
Bob Foley has been a consultant winemaker across Napa since the 70s and has witnessed a lot of changes in the valley, which he talks about in this interview from his own vineyard where he makes Robert Foley wines. Amanda Barnes also interviews him …
Heavy rainfall has spelt an end to California’s five year drought. The torrential rain caused mudslides and fallen trees in the wine regions but, despite the complications caused by the rain, the rainy period came as a great relief to vintners who had been …
The world’s first wine blogger, Alder Yarrow is a wine enthusiast who lives in San Francisco, California, where he runs his wine blog part time while working full time in the tech industry. He started Vinography in 2004 as a personal project and it has become …
We started our North America tour in the continent’s mecca of wine: California. Our area of focus was the most renowned AVA of the US, Napa Valley, however we couldn’t resist bringing you some more reports from around the state. Here’s some of the …
Californian winemakers and producers seem pleased with the 2016 harvest, which seems to be one of the more laid back vintages in recent years – especially following the difficult harvest of 2015. Drought was still an issue, but milder temperatures eased some of the …
We’ve been soaking up the California sunshine and Zinfandel in the Lodi wine region over the last week while we attended the Wine Bloggers Conference on our Rodney Strong scholarship. We’ll soon be heading out into our harvests around the Northern Hemisphere, but while …
The AVA system in the US (and most New World countries) doesn’t have any restriction on wine varieties like the ones you’ll find with the appellation system in Europe. This is, of course, why the New World is considered so exciting and diverse – …