The one difference was that many of WineBid's older California wines were consigned by winery employees themselves.
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And what would happen to the price of California wines, especially the pricier ones, if Mr. Parker weren't rating them?
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The newly emerging "boutique" California wines were all over the map qualitywise.
After Robert founded his own winery, his drive, his technological innovations and his proselytizing helped raise the bar for Napa Cabernet and to create the market for premium California wines, his partnership with Baron Phillip de Rothschild in the creation of Opus One being perhaps the ultimate validation of his vision.
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Australia's potent shiraz (syrah in France and California) wines, exemplified by Penfolds Grange, are in great demand worldwide.
These were all producers whose wines were included in my tasting, along with a number of wines from California, Spain, Argentina and France.
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Too frequently I hear wines from California described as full-bodied, made with lots of ripe, over-extracted fruit and a generous exposure to sweet-smelling American oak.
When Mr. Parker assigned his deputy Antonio Galloni to review the wines of California last year, speculation among bloggers and writers was rife: Was Mr. Parker planning to retire?
The first is the dominance of big, rich red wines, such as California cabernet sauvignon, with a lack of more subtle or lighter-bodied wines.
My perceptions have been skewed by too many over-ripe, buttery, oaky, relatively boring Chardonnay wines, mainly from California.
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Most wineries here offer some combination of California and Arizona grapes in their wines, although many also make 100% Arizona wines.
Dan Philips, a California importer specializing in Australian boutique wines and himself a partner vintner in Oz, thinks assessments of the country's output tend to be too sweeping.
John Gorman, the vice president of sales and marketing for Southern Starz, a California-based importer specializing in wines from the Southern Hemisphere, has his doubts about Pinotage serving as South Africa's flagship.
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Today, his Jackson Family Wines operates 35 wineries in California, Chile, Italy, Australia, and France.
The full-price section of the site features hard to find, well-reviewed wines mainly from France and California.
California vintners, meanwhile, have fermented wines that grabbed the highest rating from the publication six times in the past ten years, while Bordeaux vintners earned just three.
What the sites lacks in aesthetics and finesse it makes up with a broad selection of over 1200 wines that includes everything from California Cabs to Israeli red blends.
Beyond the balance sheet, the success of American wines--not just from California, but from regions as varied as Texas, Washington and New York--is just as clear cut.
The other wines were very nice versions from California and New Zealand but none had that magical combination of zesty ebullience, mineral and tropical edges that Quivira seems to possess.
Sensing that his wines would suffer in the key California market (a quarter of sales) at the hands of an outside distributor, Jackson started his own there and may do the same in other states.
But vintners here describe their wines as younger and more adventurous than their California cousins to the west.
The elite few who are invited to that lunch will enjoy a three-course meal featuring wines from Feinstein's home state of California, she said.
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Yao Family Wines currently doesn't own any vineyards in California, but is aiming to acquire land in the next few years.
The restaurant Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California, is known for featuring local ingredients - produce from the lush fields of Northern California farms, artisan cheese from local farms, and world famous wines from the Napa Valley and beyond.
But the aggressive pricing at the top end may have masked a marketing issue in the mainstream U.S. market: After all, Australian wines just recently surpassed French wines as America's favorite import after Italian (California wine dominates overall, with 67% of the market).
What could be more American than Fume Blanc, a wine that was essentially made up here on our shores out of whole cloth, invented to help California differentiate itself and pull out from under the shadow of French wines, something it has long since done.
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"It has become an expensive hobby, but there is so much potential in Texas wines especially in this area, " said Pruitt, who grew up in near California's wine-rich Santa Ynez Valley and still sources much of his grape juice from there.
Mr. Ramey's two "basic" Chardonnays (he makes seven Chardonnays altogether) were among the 17 wines I tasted recently with friends most of whom said they rarely drank California Chardonnay because it had too much oak, too much sweetness and too little acidity.
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While critics and those familiar with these wines have been seduced, prices haven't risen as much as those of counterparts in California, Italy and France.
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