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California Cabernet Sauvignon
Cab lovers: Make room in your cellar. Napa Valley vintners combined experience gained over a long string of drought vintages with a near-perfect growing season to deliver a vintage of unrivaled quality with 2016.
Cover Stories
A Benchmark Year: Annual California Cabernet Report
Napa Valley Master Class: Old-School Cabernet
Napa Valley Master Class: Young Blood, Venerable Vines
Napa Valley Master Class: Aging Gracefully
Alphabetical Guide to California Cabernet
Tasting Reports
Charm Offensive
Alphabetical Guide to the Loire Valley
Change Is in the Air
Alphabetical Guide to Austria
Features
A Visionary in Barolo
Grapevine
Florida Opens Door to Out-of-State Retailer Shipping
Insects Attack American Vineyards
San Francisco's Star-Powered Spin-Offs
National Treasure
Brie & Camembert: Pride of France
The Sky's the Limit
Alphabetical Guide to Languedoc
French Favorites, Australian Delights, Spanish Sippers
Crusader Winery Unearthed in Israel
The 2019 Grand Tastings
Departments
2016: A Cabernet Classic
Feedback
Seeing Is Believing
Rib Eye with Priorat
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- The Judgment of Cheese: Old World Classics vs. New World Originals: How do American artisan cheeses stack up against their Old World prototypes? We put our colleagues on the spot with a side-by-side tasting.
- Bordeaux to Bolgheri: Making Ornellaia and Masseto: Axel Heinz, director of these Tuscan estates, talks to Wine Spectator's Bruce Sanderson about the similarities and differences between Bolgheri and Bordeaux.
- A Perfect Match: Butter-Basted Rib Eye with Priorat: Find out more about this delicious pairing, and get the recipe from chef Katie Button of Cúrate in Asheville, N.C.
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