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Schramsberg

When Jack and Jamie Davies bought Schramsberg in 1965, the most promising part of the Diamond Mountain estate lay underground. The vineyards were fallow, and the Victorian house was in disrepair, but twelve thousand square feet of caves, dug by hand into volcanic rock a century earlier, offered exactly what their sparkling-wine project needed: a cool place for bottles to mature. Sixty-one years on, those tunnels remain the heart of the estate. The wines have changed, and the search for grapes has carried the family far beyond Napa Valley, yet the cellars continue to make that work possible.
Latest Wine Reviews – September 2026 5

Latest Wine Reviews

Latest Wine Reviews – September 2026

This September, the Northern Hemisphere is picking earlier than anyone alive has seen — and picking less. In an ordinary year, this could be a red flag. This year, the story is about how the fruit stopped following the calendar. California Napa’s first sparkling lots went to press on 31 July, while Sonoma kicked off what may be the earliest harvest in its recorded history. A freakishly warm March pushed budbreak forward by weeks, then a cold, wet, windy bloom punished fruit set. The result……...

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