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Get scores and tasting notes for more than 30 top-quality and budget-friendly wine picks from Wine Spectator editors, including red and white value picks from Portugal, France, Australia and beyond.
Get scores and tasting notes for more than 30 top-quality and budget-friendly wine picks from Wine Spectator editors, including red and white value picks from Portugal, France, Australia and beyond.
A tough growing season capped by wildfires leaves consumers with fewer choices, but select vintners bottled good wines in Napa, Sonoma and the Santa Cruz Mountains.
Get scores for nearly 500 Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc red wines from California's 2020, 2019 and 2018 vintages reviewed in Wine Spectator blind tastings, including top bottlings and good values from Napa, Sonoma, Paso Robles and …
An exploration of the region’s high-elevation terroirs, including Atlas Peak, Diamond Mountain District, Howell Mountain, Spring Mountain District, Mount Veeder and Pritchard Hill
Owner Samantha Rudd, chef Philip Tessier and wine director Vincent Morrow transformed this St. Helena steakhouse into a more innovative restaurant with a deep Napa-focused list that earns Wine Spectator's highest honor for world-class wine …
Our annual roundup of the most exciting wines of the year includes profiles of the Top 100 red, white, rosé and sparkling picks from across the globe.
Bruce and Heather Phillips' little-known Oakville vineyard provides grapes to Napa's elite, and their own estate Cabernet is an authoritative expression of the site. Wine Spectator's James Molesworth tastes the 2018 vintage.
Nudging 2016 aside, the 2018 vintage is Napa Valley's best in more than 20 years, counting dozens of classic-scoring releases and hundreds more top wines—rich, dark and detailed Cabernet Sauvignons that clearly transmit their terroirs.
Profiles of four recently started, small Napa producers whose Cabernets are already coming on strong
Get scores for nearly 800 California Cabernets reviewed in blind tastings over the past year, with notable Napa Cab bottlings from the 2018 vintage.
For Nigel and Shae Kinsman, the road to Cabernet success started in Australia and passed through some of Napa's premier properties.
Up on Napa's Diamond Mountain, Nigel and Shae Kinsman talk about caring for older Cabernet vines at the former Reverie Vineyard, the property's history and how these grapes are used in their Rhadamanthus cuvée.
Nigel and Shae Kinsman take us to … an empty dirt lot—aka Calistoga's Geeslin Vineyard, the once and future home of Eisele clone Cabernet Sauvignon vines on St. George rootstock—and explain why the vines were recently pulled out and new vines are going in.
Napa Valley veteran Bart Araujo and family are building an admirable track record with a trio of young wine labels. Wine Spectator senior editor James Molesworth tastest six Cabernets from the 2018 vintage.