The Wall Street Journal, June 18, 2011
Wines That Favor Balance Over Power
by Jay McInerney
David Ramey was driving on a dusty road through the land of tequila and mezcal when he had what he describes as his "coup de foudre"... More…

Salt Lake City Weekly, February 8, 2011
Notes on some of California's best-made wines.
by Ted Scheffler
Recently, I had the opportunity—well, the privilege, really—of sipping some of California’s best wines... More…

Tom Simoneau’s Wines of the Year 12/26/2009
Winery of the Year: Ramey Wine Cellars, Healdsburg, CA
David Ramey: owner/winemaker
If you spend some time with David Ramey, you’ll know what I mean when I say he was born to make wine. More…

i-winereview.com August 2009
DAVID RAMEY: EXCEPTIONAL WINES FROM AN EXCEPTIONAL WINEMAKER
David Ramey is that rare individual, a scholar who became a doer. At UC, Davis, he wrote a graduate thesis on the evolution of flavors in wine that is still used today. More…

Stephen Tanzer’s International Wine Cellar California Chardonnay vs. White Burgundy July 2008
In June of 2003 I conducted a blind tasting for The Wine Workshop in New York City in which some of California’s top chardonnays were matched against white Burgundies of similar age. As these tastings invariably turn out to be, the event was quite fascinating, and full of surprises. In a nutshell, the California chardonnays acquitted themselves very well. More…

Sunset Magazine, David Ramey Winemaker of the Year
He's worked at Chateau Pétrus (the world's most expensive Bordeaux), Dominus, and Rudd. Now, in Healdsburg, Ramey's making his own Chardonnays and Cabernets every bit their equal. And through his consulting, he's improving hundreds of thousands of cases of West Coast wine. More…

eRobertParker, Executive Wine Seminar Blind Tasting, April 10, 2007
Some EWS tastings are not meant to be taken too seriously. This was one of them. California Chardonnay vs. White Burgundy was conceived to be pure hedonistic fun, a fair, competitive blind tasting pitting the best French and American Chardonnays against each other. The EWS team selected seven potentially wonderful Chardonnay-based wines from each region for a head-to-head blind tasting competition to make a Chardonnay lover salivate. More...

Forbes.Com Lifestyle Feature
Fifty years ago, France dominated the wine world. Fifty years ago California's Napa Valley was a sleepy agricultural community, as was Oregon's rain-soaked Willamette Valley. Fifty years ago, American wines were the beverage of choice for hobos and alcoholics, not wine connoisseurs. Who are the most influential winemakers in the U.S. today? Forbes.com has found out. More...

eRobertParker, Executive Wine Seminar Blind Tasting, June 21, 2005
Special mention must be made of our clear-cut winner, 2002 Ramey "Ritchie Vineyard." This was simply a stunningly delicious Chardonnay, as good as it gets. We continue to be amazed that David Ramey’s Chardonnays are not only widely available, but also sanely priced. The 2002 Ritchie Vineyard was the best among many awesome Ramey Chardonnays that we’ve tasted in recent years. More...

Food & Wine The American Grand Cru Debate
10 Grand Cru California Winemakers
These winemakers are so great they deserve to be designated grand cru. More...

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
2004 Thomas Jefferson Award

Food & Wine American Wine Awards
F&W's ninth annual American Wine Awards celebrates some of the most remarkable wineries and wine professionals in the United States. Among those selected this year by our panel of 41 distinguished judges are a five-year-old Napa winery already producing cult Syrahs and an importer who continues to discover many of Austria's and Germany's most dazzling wines. You'll also find our picks for the most outstanding American wines, ranging in price from $11 to $175 a bottle. More...

Connoisseur's Guide Article
What a year we have been through. We began with wine prices beginning to crack (good) and fears that wineries were going to go out of business (bad).We have ended the year with a few wine prices coming down and with wineries adjusting their blends to put better wine in less expensive bottles (good), but we have seen wineries like DeLoach simply die on the vine and get sold at bankruptcy auction (sad). There are a handful of other wineries in the midst of reorganization (not so good) and probably others hoping that the other shoe does not fall on them (wishful). More...