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From California’s Sonoma, Napa Valley and Paicines AVAs to Oregon’s Willamette Valley, As One Cru crafts single-vineyard wines made with soul

These intrepid South American winemakers have all looked beyond the horizons in their native lands, and have struck out into the world to forge maverick projects on other continents

Each month our editorial team tastes a lot of wine, but not all of it makes it onto the page. So here’s our in-house pick of other great wines we’ve tried

Natalie Earl, Decanter Sustainability Editor

New York-born and Dijon-trained, his influence on today’s California wine scene belies his modest nature. The vineyard-centric doctrines of this Sonoma-based wine-grower (the term he prefers) are setting a benchmark for the decades ahead

After two intense weeks of blind tasting by top wine professionals from around the world, all 137 Platinum medal winners were re-examined by the five DWWA Co-Chairs. This resulted in the following 50 wines being promoted to the prized status of DWWA Best in Show for 2025