Recent cooler vintages in Napa have encouraged producers to look for restraint in their wines. But how much is the style change welcomed by French winemakers in the region, asks Adam Lechmere

An aristocrat of the Australian winemaking industry, Robert Hill-Smith is a scion of one of the country’s most historic winemaking families. However, it’s his vision for the future that has turned Yalumba into a dynamic global success story, writes Adam Lechmere

Five years on from its acquisition by current owners Antinori and Chateau Ste Michelle from founder Warren Winiarski, Adam Lechmere visits pioneering Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars and asks whether its reputation as a beacon of California elegance has survived the transition to more corporate ownership

Jared Liu co-founded yesmywine.com, China’s biggest wine retail website and its third biggest imported wine retailer, in 2008. With the Chinese e-commerce market expected to reach 250m by the end of the year, yesmywine.com, with six million registered users, is set to continue its domination of the sector. The five-year-old site’s statistics are impressive: it sells an average of 20,000 bottles a day, peaking at 120,000, and it has a considerable presence amongst female wine buyers. Yesmywine. com has just broken even, and a stock market flotation is on the cards.

Wine.com, founded by entrepreneur Mike Osborn, is now the biggest retailer of imported wine in the US, finds Adam Lechmere. And as the growth in Millennial spending power converges with the growth in mobile technology, it’s tipped to get even bigger.

After the 2004 sale of Robert Mondavi Winery, Tim Mondavi could have gone anywhere. But with his dedication to terroir, he chose to stay close to home

Another successful Pernod Ricard brand, Campo Viejo balances modernity with tradition and manages to retain credibility despite its ubiquity

Neither a cru classe nor a cru bourgeois, St Estephe's Chateau Phelan Segur is an outsider in Bordeaux. But the estate's creative owner Thierry Gardinier and managing director Veronique Dausse are intent on making the rejuvenated property 'the first great chateau to succeed outside the 1855 Classification'

The rarety and expense of this renowned and sought-after Napa Cabernet blend - surely the best-known of the great Napa cult wines - means few have ever tasted it, nor visited the notoriously private winery. Adam Lechmere did both

An interview with the film director Francis Ford Coppola, proprietor of Napa Valley's legendary Inglenook. In April 2011 the Godfather director finally purchased the Inglenook name - at a cost of many millions of dollars - the last step in realising his dream of restoring the great winery to greatness