California producers

Top Corison wines: From 1989 to 2014

Anson: Jesse Katz - Remember the name

Jane Anson meets a rising star of wine...

Tasting Gallica: Elegant Napa Cabernet

Try a different take on Napa Cabernet...

Spottswoode vintages rated from 1997 to 2014

See the best Spottswoode Cabernet wines to buy...

Producer profile: Far Niente

Historic Napa winery Far Niente was started by a gold rush forty-niner and abandoned after Prohibition, only to rise from the ashes in the 1980s to reach international renown...

Santa Cruz Mountains producers to know

Six Sonoma Coast producers to watch

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

Producer profile: Ulysses

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

Harlan Estate: Producer profile

William Kelley tastes a 12 vintage vertical of this 'Californian first growth'...

Obituary: Sonoma wine pioneer Frank Woods dies

Frank Woods, founder of Clos du Bois winery in Sonoma County and a leading advocate of the region and its wines, has died aged 81 in San Francisco.

Producer profile: Inglenook

It took 30 tumultuous years, but in April 2011, film director Francis Ford Coppola finally achieved his dream – the rebirth of Inglenook. Adam Lechmere looks at the history of this legendary Napa Valley estate and gets a preview of Coppola's script for restoring it to greatness.

The Decanter September interview: Ted Lemon

Rebecca Gibb meets the terroir-driven winemaker setting his own benchmarks in the New World