Topics in California Wines

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  The Tectonic Shift That Changed California Wine

  IN A STATE famous for its fault lines, no tectonic shift in California’s recent history had a greater impact on its wine industry than when the lights went dark in restaurants and retail shops around the world at the onset of the pandemic. The lockdown created huge shifts in the global economy and consumer behavior, which presented some unique opportunities as well as challenges.
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  California 2024 Winegrape Harvest Begins Early and Delivers High Quality

  Plentiful winter rainfall and warm summer temperatures set the stage for a memorable vintage across the state
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  California in 2024: Sustainability, New Wines and Old Vines

  Go big or go home. This is the “America” portrayed in our media. Risk-takers, visionaries, scrappy dreamers building empires, unabashed displays of prosperity. Big houses, big cars, big companies, big wines… Does the stereotype still hold true for California wine in 2024?
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  Behind the Wines with Elaine Chukan Brown | Oz Clarke and Richard Siddle

  In this episode focused on regional comparisons of California and the world, Wine writer + expert Elaine Chukan Brown speaks with Oz Clarke, wine writer, presenter, and broadcaster and Richard Siddle, business and media consultant and editor at The Buyer. What’s the current state of California wine in the UK? How have perceptions changed in recent years? Elaine, Oz, and Richard take a look at California wine from the outside in, focusing specifically on perspectives from one of the world’s largest wine markets.
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  California, State of the State

  Written by Jancis Robinson MW. California wine has played a huge part in my life. The first article I had published in a national newspaper was a report on the French giant Moët-Hennessy’s move into Napa Valley via Domaine Chandon published by The Sunday Times of London in the mid-1970s. A few years later I was to meet my husband of 40 years Nick Lander at a tasting of California wine in the American embassy in London. I organised this tasting, at a time when the dollar-to-pound rate was favourable to UK importers of California wine, and many were jumping on the bandwagon. This was in my role as secretary of the Zinfandel Club, an organisation founded by the likes of my friend and co-author of The World Atlas of Wine Hugh Johnson to introduce British wine lovers to the delights of wine from California, the first non-European wine region to make a serious impact on Europe’s wine lovers.
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  Evan Goldstein MS Recommends the UC Davis Wine Writers' Collection

  Have you ever wondered how we arrived where we have, wine-wise, in California? And yes, while I am old enough to have experienced first-hand considerable amounts of what set the table from the last 1960s on, I am also aware that I do not know every key happening nor all the critical individuals whose pioneering courage, leadership and yes, at times chutzpah, helped shape what we so frequently take for granted today.