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Wine Enthusiast’s 2016 Wine Star Award Nominees
American Winery of the Year Nominee Read More
James Laube's Recommended California Chardonnays
Top WinesWayfarer Chardonnay 2014, Wayfarer Vineyard, 93 pointsShows creamy tangerine and nectarine flavors, with lively acidity and pithy citrus peel texture, gaining depth and nuance. ••
2014 Wayfarer Vineyard preview in purely domestic wine report
Doug Wilder gets an early taste of the 2014 Wayfarer Vineyard estate wines. "The wines, not due to release until later in the year typify the coolness of the site and the winemaker’s burgundian aesthetic, finally tuned, sublime and balanced." Read More
Bibiana González Rave — Dreaming about wines you’ll never forget
Wayfarer Winemaaker Bibiana González Rave profiled in the Napa Valley Register Read More
Wayfarer Vineyard: Winery of the Year | 2015
Doug Wilder and purely domestic wine report honors Wayfarer Vineyard as its 2015 Winery of the Year Read More
2015 Winemaker of the Year: Bibiana Gonzalez Rave
Wayfarer Vineyard Winemaker Bibiana Gonzalez Rave Named The San Francisco Chronicle's 2015 Winemaker of the Year Read More
Best Of Napa & Sonoma Wines: 2011-2013 Vintages
The Corkscrewer Report previews some of their favorite wines from vintages 2011, 2012 and 2013. Read More
Wayfarer Wines Grab My Attention - Again
In October 2014, I led off the PinotFile with an article on the inaugural wines released from Wayfarer Vineyard located in the Fort Ross-Seaview AVA. I raved about the 2012 Wayfarer Pinot Noirs and Chardonnay then, and recently tasted the 2013 Wayfarer releases and I was captivated again. It is unprecedented for me to put a winery on the front page of the PinotFile twice within a year, but these wines are that good. The wines are expensive, but not unreasonably so given the challenges of… Read More
The Extremists of the Extreme Sonoma Coast
The Fort Ross-Seaview AVA may be only three years old, but its ability to produce distinctive and thrilling wines has been recognized for far longer. Anne Krebiehl MW profiles the early pioneers and more recent producers who are brave enough to farm its inhospitable but rewarding coastal ridges. Read More
West Sonoma Coast - an introduction
The West Sonoma Coast is not an official appellation, but is a region recognised by vintners throughout the area for the quality and refinement of the wines it produces. ‘These wines', Ehren Jordan of Failla tells me, ‘defy most people’s expectations of what California can do.’ We’re standing in the Failla cellar tasting through his many cuvées from the West Sonoma Coast, discussing wines of the region generally. It is well understood that California can offer big flavour. At… Read More