Zweigelt, a cross of two Austrian grapes, Blaufränkisch and St. Laurent, is the most widely planted red grape in Austria. It ...

All oak is not created equal. Here’s why the type of barrel used to age your wine matters and how it impacts what's in your ...

By a sommelier who believes every cork has a story A Quiet Moment, a Loud Memory It’s funny which memories claim front-r ...

Sparkling Lambrusco was once ubiquitous. Sophisticated vintners are brining it back.In the hilltop village of Castelvetro di Modena, they were dancing in the streets. It was mid-September, and the ...

On one side of the pinwheel, tempranillo, merlot, granache, and other classic wine grapes look withered and anemic. Over the past few years they have been baked by unprecedented heat waves and ...

Rather than the hundreds of different kinds of wine that you can find in a good shop, let’s narrow the selection down to, say, those made with 10 grapes. As with the art museum, tightening the ...

The University of Minnesota Horticulture Research Center (HRC) in Excelsior, Minn., breeds new varieties of wine and table grapes that can withstand cold Minnesota winters. The HRC is renowned for ...

and produced a musket-ball sized grape. The mission wine was noted by some visitors to have debris floating in it. The missions added brandy to the wine to make it palatable and called it Angelica ...

we scanned the list of phenolics abundant in red wine. We spied a paper showing that quercetin is a good inhibitor of ALDH. Quercetin is a phenolic compound found in the skins of grapes ...

The North Coast wine grape market is experiencing significant challenges as this year’s harvest season progresses. Growers and wineries are grappling with oversupply, reduced demand and pricing ...

That’s heartening to hear because scanning over the tons of crates overflowing with wine grapes from around the world in the cool back room of the Corrado’s Wine and Beer Making Center ...

Records of the quality of annual wine-grape harvests can be used to estimate historical summertime temperatures in western Europe 1. Earlier work had used grape-harvest dates to reconstruct ...