California vintage guide

Six new California wine styles

Here's what to look out for...

Californian Cabernet 2013: Top five wines of the vintage

Top wines from a lauded vintage...

What's new in California wine...?

The latest trends in California wine...

California vineyards: What's new...

Duckhorn wine co sold to private equity group

California wine group changes hands...

Premier Cru owner pleads guilty to $45 million fraud

John Fox, the owner of one Californian's biggest retailers Premier Cru has turned himself in and admitted to scamming customers out over $45 million...

California 2014 Vintage Guide

An early harvest produced a below-average crop of charming, supple and dark-fruited wines with refined tannins and juicy acidity; the best Pinot Noir vintage for over a decade...

California 2013 Vintage Guide

A warm summer and a crop of small berries produced deeply concentrated, structured wines with amazing potential in the cellar; the best Cabernet Sauvignon vintage for decades...

California 2012 Vintage Guide

Generous yields and a warm, uneventful growing season produced open-knit, ripe, fruit-driven wines which sometimes lack depth and complexity...

California 2010 Vintage Guide

A cool and challenging growing season issued in vibrant, juicy, concentrated wines which marry considerable early appeal with structure for the cellar; Cabernet Sauvignon excelled...

California 2009 Vintage Guide

Torrential early-October rain interrupted a mild summer; producers who picked in time produced supple, generous wines...

Six Sonoma Coast producers to watch

More and more winemakers in the True Sonoma Coast are exploring the parameters of the possible.

10 exciting California wines to try

Why California today is so fascinating....

California wines: In pursuit of balance

See California Pinot Noir and Chardonnay in a new light...

Producer profile: Ulysses

William Kelley is one of the first people to get a look inside Ulysses, the new Christian Moueix Napa Valley venture...

Chanel buys St Supery winery in Napa Valley

Fashion house Chanel has made its first wine acquisition outside France, buying Napa Valley's St Supéry from the Skalli family for an undisclosed sum.

New wine movie to open Napa Valley film festival

A new wine film claiming to 'raise the curtain' on how wine is produced is set to open the Napa Valley film festival this year.

Napa Merlot pioneer bought by Vintage Wine Estates

Swanson Vineyards - a pioneer in planting Merlot in Napa - has been bought by California's Vintage Wine Estates.

Napa Valley wine train '100 percent wrong', says CEO

The chief executive of the Napa Valley wine train has apologised for his staff after their eviction of 11 women spurred a wave of criticism on social media.

Napa Valley wine train faces social media wrath

California fires rage but vineyards safe, says Napa Vintners

Napa Valley Vintners has tried to calm concerns that the 2015 Napa wine harvest is under threat from a spate of California fires.