Blue Heron Vineyards, a mile west of Roseburg, Ore., was established in 2010 when Hal and Vicki Westbrook decided to transition from cattle to wine grapes.

Blue-collar grapes in a revolution. By Jordan Mackay . July 21, 2004 12 AM PT . ... If Nebbiolo made a wine to be oohed and ahhed over, Barbera made a wine for, well, pizza.

Spanish wine maker Gik has concocted an electric blue wine that's made from a mixture of red and white grapes.

Vindigo begins its life as a Chardonnay before being filtered through the pulp of red grape skins where pigments known as anthocyanins give the 100-percent natural wine its blue color.

It mixes store-bought roasted chicken with blue cheese, grapes, and celery. ... 1 1/2 tablespoons white wine vinegar. 3 ounces crumbled mild blue cheese, such as Maytag (3/4 cup) ...

Forget red, white and rose: They’ll soon be serving BLUE wine made from grape skin in British bars and makers Gik believe the colourful new tipple will encourage non-wine drinkers to give it a go.

It’s a loss worth $50,000 in supplies, labor and potential wine sales for Firefly Hill Vineyards in Elliston, near the Blue Ridge Mountains, about 20 miles from Roanoke.

The verdict: Blue wine is not the next rosé but will make for a great 1) Instagram 2) cocktail. For more food news and magical recipes, follow Cosmo Bites on Facebook ! Follow Danielle on ...

In Prospect Heights stands Fermented Grapes, a wine shop and decades long staple in an ever changing community.

Grapes don't continue to ripen once picked, so they stay as sour or as sweet as when they're harvested. Taste an unripe grape, and it will be mouth-puckeringly sour.

A year after its release, more than 40,000 vines of Itasca have been sold in 2017, said Matt Clark, another grape breeder and an assistant professor in the U's Department of Horticultural Science ...