Make It So: How a Not-So-French Vineyard Got Cast as Star Trek's 'Château Picard'
We discovered the winery that plays Captain Picard's "Burgundy" retreat—and went behind the scenes
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Massive Roman Shipwreck May Have Had 200,000 Bottles' Worth of Wine Aboard
A recently discovered and mapped wreck is one of the biggest Roman-era ships ever found in the Mediterranean and took some …
Wine Governor Gavin Newsom Inducts Winemaker Helen Turley and Wine Chef Wolfgang Puck into Hall of Fame
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Two years after Sonoma's Paradise Ridge burned, the winery debuted a rebuilt—and improved—home
