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Posted on November 30, 2020December 1, 2020

Kenwood Vineyards

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Posted on May 7, 2024December 11, 2024

A History of Wine in California

Note: This isn’t really a blog post, but rather a long-form essay. If you would prefer a printed copy for reading, click here for the PDF. For an edited “Reader’s Digest” version of this essay that is about half as long, the PDF is here. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Spanish Colonization The Spanish Mission System …

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A Note About Vintages

Although you will see vintage dates throughout Winervana, I don’t put too much importance on them.  Major producers these days strive for a consistent style, and largely succeed. For instance, when shopping for a particular wine, if you have a choice between a current release and one that’s a few years old, there will certainly be differences in price and the character of the wine.  But upon release, those two examples of the same wine are likely to be quite similar, especially for New World producers, who often enjoy  more reliably consistent weather than Old World producers do. (Of course, global climate change may disrupt things for everybody.)

Wine Enthusiast has an interesting post about this here.

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