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Sep 18, 2024 · From the Chardonnay boom to the rise of cult Cabernets Sauvignons, these wines tell the near 300 year history of California Wine. Victor Protasio / Food Styling by Margaret Monroe Dickey / Prop...
high-quality vintage for 2022 following a season filled with curveballs. For many California wine regions, this was a tale of two harvests, as a Labor Day heat wave divided the season into earlier and later picks. As harvest wraps up across the state, vintners predict that 2022 will produce memorable wines of great concentration and complexity.
Jul 5, 2016 · Vineyard planting in the state began with the Spanish Franciscan Missionaries starting with California’s first mission: Mission San Diego de Alcalá in 1769. Just as palm trees were planted so there would be palm fronds for Palm Sunday, vineyards were planted so there would be wine for communion.
Vineyard planting in the state began with the Spanish Franciscan Missionaries starting with California’s first mission: Mission San Diego de Alcalá in 1769. Just as palm trees were planted so there would be palm fronds for Palm Sunday, vineyards were planted so there would be wine for communion.
- A Look at Some Classic Wineries, Today
- Newer Cult-Like Wines
- The Newest Wines: Post-Cult
Here are various vintages of Cabernets available today from some of the wineries that helped shape California Cabernet history: 1979 Clos du Val Reserve ($99) A library wine, not easy to find…but well worth the trouble for the glimpse it affords of pre-alcohol-overload Napa Valley Cabernet. Medium garnet-brick, with touch of onionskin at edge. Choc...
After the Screaming Eagle/Bryant Family generation, a new group of expensive, super-concentrated Cabernets is appearing. Here are a few of the ones I’d consider drinking: 2006 Sloan, Napa Valley ($464) Time to watch those prices rise! This cult-y wine, from an old winery that found a new purpose in the ’00s, is very dark garnet in the glass, with e...
But the new wines that have me truly excited are the ones that manage to suggest the concentration of cult wines, adding the sophistication of a reach for something finer and better. 2006 Meteor Vineyard, Special Family Reserve, Napa Valley ($299) Meteor Vineyard’s first wines, including this top-of-the-line Special Family Reserve, were from the 20...
Dec 12, 2022 · In Los Angeles, the wine culture traces its roots back to the missions that dotted the area in the 1700s. One of them in particular, the San Gabriel Mission, was home to a thriving...
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Jun 25, 2024 · After going organic in 2006 across their 366 acres of vineyard, which stretch from Carneros to Calistoga, they adopted biodynamic principles three years later and were among the first wineries in California to receive regenerative certification in 2023.
