Longtime winemaker Nicole Marchesi teams up with consultant Thomas River Brown on new luxury Napa Valley wine. Such a pleasure last month to meet Beth Nickel of Far […]
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Dapper Far Niente sister winery gets things right with single-vineyard collector-quality Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon. A quarter-century ago, Nickel & Nickel founder the late Gil Nickel paid the
Iconic winery’s Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon ages slowly in American oak. Celebrated Silver Oak releases only two wines a year, both Cabernet-heavy Bordeaux blends. The grapes for the
Judicious use of Pennsylvania and Missouri wood yields four distinctive C. Elizabeth Wines vintages. Mentioning American oak to some oenophiles prompts a mad dash to the (forested French)
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