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...The Rouzaud family of Champagne Roederer recently added Diamond Creek winery and its hallowed Napa vineyards to their portfolio, alongside Merry Edwards in Sonoma and their early investment in Roederer Estate...
...All the Cabernet Sauvignon plants, I was told, are based on cuttings from Napa Valley’s top vineyards such as MacDonald, Eisele, Spottswoode, Diamond Creek, Martha’s and so on....
...So far the only wine operations to be fully ROC-certified are Domaine Bousquet in Argentina, Troon in Oregon and Fetzer, Neal, Sominer, Tablas Creek and Truett-Hurst in California....
...TDG: My husband and I adore wine, particularly wine sourced in local vineyards in the Provence region in France, where we live....
...The wine list, put together by George de Vos, takes a similar approach to the food, choosing small vineyards that are committed to sustainability....
...There is such an amazing mix of landscape there, from small creeks and bays to vineyards and forest....
...The village of Balmoral, south-west of Sydney, has been decimated by the Green Wattle Creek firestorm....
...Risky though it was, I followed up an Instagram acquaintance, and rented a two-bedroom, three-storey Swahili-style villa in a sleepy creek-side settlement called Kilifi about a one-hour drive north of Mombasa...
...What A 60-acre estate with vineyards, olive groves and fruit trees....
...which is very important in France) and the well regarded northern California sparkling wine producer Roederer Estate, which was recently joined by the uniquely terroir-informed Napa Valley producer Diamond Creek...
...Praise to Tablas Creek for their Esprit de Tablas whose full bottle weighs just 1,110g. As well as this, Jackman and McGovern dispensed with the sort of printed tasting booklets that are often wasted....
...Dry Creek Valley was settled by Italian immigrants whose descendants formed a tight-knit community....
...In fact, from California, I would not head for the Rhône varieties, however well the likes of Alban, Tablas Creek and Qupé have handled them....
...2017 Napa Valley$45-$54 various US retailers REDS Mountain Tides Petite Sirah 2018 California$19.99 K & L£22.95 Jeroboams Minus Tide, Feliz Creek Vineyard Carignan 2018 Mendocino$30 Flatiron Wines &...
...Newly planted vineyards rewrite the range of possibilities, sometimes dramatically....
...The first team to make wine here that was widely exported was Australian from Jacob’s Creek in 2005, under the brand name Helan Mountain....
...Sunshine Creek and Handpicked Wines are two other Chinese-owned Yarra wine enterprises in it for the long haul....
...Vineyard Gate Selections Millbrae, CA: “Free shipping for online orders of $200 or more. We focus on artisanal and natural wines from small producers around the world.”...
...In fact, one of the region’s most experienced vine growers described it to me as “a funny little block on a creek too close to the coast”....
...In 20 minutes, I can be across the Danube in Grinzing, sitting in a vineyard with a glass of white wine....
...Pinot Gris 2017, Becker Vineyard Cuvée 2016, Phantom Creek Vineyard Cuvée 2016, Syrah 2016 Poplar Grove, Legacy 2014 and 2008, Cabernet Franc 2015 Quail’s Gate, Dry Riesling 2018 Seven Stones Chardonnay...
...Inside is a counter, a man called Alex Williams and the Hurdle Creek Still: it turns out Alex’s family make gin for some of Melbourne’s smartest bars, using botanicals foraged from their property including...
...As Hanya Yanagihara writes in her essay A Brisk Swim Across Martha’s Vineyard, “Swimming is the writer’s sport, because it is the sport most like writing....
...Jason Haas runs Tablas Creek 250 miles south of Napa Valley in Paso Robles, a Rhône-focused vine nursery and winery....
...Jason Haas introduced it at Tablas Creek in Paso Robles quite recently and is also sceptical about parts of it....
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