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• California wine is in serious trouble

  May 08 2024

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• It sparked California’s $40 billion wine industry. But what if it was all wrong?

  July 19 2023

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• It’s a ‘blood sport’: The secret game Bay Area restaurants play to get the world’s most in-demand wines

  April 05 2023

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• He wrote ‘Sideways,’ which became the most influential wine movie ever made. Now he says he was ‘completely ripped off’

  March 06 2023

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• Has Wine Country become too expensive for its own good?

  December 20 2022

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• This remote California wine region was a ‘holy grail.’ But its future is under siege

  September 26 2022

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• How Roundup, the weed killer linked to cancer, became one of California wine’s biggest controversies

  September 14 2022

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• Napa Valley has perfected one type of wine. But is it starting to all taste the same?

  July 27 2022

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• What’s the ‘biodynamic’ wine scene in ‘Succession’ mean? It’s a clever metaphor in more than one way

  November 24 2021

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• The Prisoner is one of Napa’s most popular wines. It also glamorizes something ugly: incarceration

  October 27 2021

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• S.F.'s most thrilling new wine destination for industry insiders: this quiet Turkish restaurant

  October 04 2021

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• How Napa's Cakebread winery absolved itself of starting one of California's most destructive fires

  August 19 2021

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• There's wine. Then there's natural wine. Then there's 'zero-zero' wine

  August 11 2021

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• Pandemic drinking shows America's all-or-nothing attitude toward alcohol: binge or be sober

  March 17 2021

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• One artist drew Anchor's beer labels for 45 years. Here's what the 93-year-old thinks of the controversial redesign

  January 28 2021

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• Wildfires have ravaged Napa Valley. Will California’s wine industry survive? [National Geographic]

  October 09 2020

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• What I miss about bars, dingy smells and all

  August 06 2020

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• Cameron Diaz’s new ‘clean’ wine Avaline meets none of the natural wine standards

  July 17 2020

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• Should JaM Cellars be allowed to monopolize buttery Chardonnay?

  April 24 2020

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• The hot new thing in craft beer? Good old-fashioned lager

  January 31 2020

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• There's a mouse in your wine

  September 24 2019

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• The Wine Train is Napa Valley

  September 05 2019

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• The end of Cabernet in Napa?

  August 16 2019

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• The year that broke California wine

  August 01 2019

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• Bryant Estate legal fight offers glimpse into ‘cult’ wineries’ secretive world

  June 18 2019

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• Is San Francisco's Anchor Brewing having an identity crisis?

  June 14 2019

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• California wine's new paradigm: Bright, juicy, translucent reds

  March 21 2019

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• Is fine wine the NBA’s new status symbol?

  December 02 2018

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• The hidden figures behind the Judgment of Paris

  October 24 2018

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• Somm scandal: Revelations of cheating at master sommelier examination lead to the invalidation of 23 new certifications

  October 10 2018

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• The pop star who found a new stage: Alecia Moore, a.k.a. Pink, reveals her secret life of winemaking

  September 28 2018

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• How a California cult created one of the country’s great wineries — and then lost it

  August 23 2018

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• At Heirloom Cafe, Matt Straus keeps alive the dying art of cellaring wine

  May 30 2018

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• Got several years and several million dollars? You probably still can’t plant a Napa Valley vineyard

  May 18 2018

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• Why pricey Bar Crenn is the enfant terrible of wine bars

  April 18 2018

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• Battle for Napa Valley’s future: Proposed curb on vineyards divides county

  April 09 2018

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• Steve Edmunds is the unsung hero of California wine

  March 11 2018

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• How Maria Echavarria, against all odds, forged a 30-year career in the vineyards

  February 23 2018

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• Increasingly, California vineyards find a workforce of women

  February 23 2018

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• Is Napa running out of land for vineyards?

  February 22 2018

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• At Petit Marlowe, drinkers find small appeal and big prices

  November 01 2017

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• RN74 was a revolution for the wine world. Here’s why it’s closing.

  September 26 2017

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• Constellation's new To Kalon brand revives legendary Napa wine dispute

  August 17 2017

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• Guest worker visas a complex cure for vineyard labor shortage

  July 28 2017

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• Worker housing funded by Napa vineyards can’t meet demand

  July 09 2017

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• Bill Harlan's Promontory: Will it have something new to say?

  June 02 2017

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• The unlikely comeback of California's Mission grape

  March 23 2017

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• The hunt for Sonoma's most elusive bubbly

  December 21 2016

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• Should you buy this wine gadget? No.

  December 14 2016

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• Considering the legacy of In Pursuit of Balance

  November 15 2016

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• What is California nouveau?

  November 11 2016

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• Scribe: the winery as urban millennial lifestyle phenomenon

  August 11 2016

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• In Contra Costa County, a vineyard that defies all odds

  June 23 2016

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• What Dunkin' Donuts means to me

  June 21 2016

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• Why the Judgment of Paris really matters (and why it doesn’t)

  May 19 2016

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• The wines that replaced California's cults

  April 29 2016

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• The cult of Cabernet: the paradox of Napa's most expensive wines

  April 21 2016

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• Oakland's shrine to natural wine

  March 09 2016

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• Rosé goes viral. Is that a bad thing?

  September 05 2015

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