Every winemaker is seemingly an optimist when a new harvest’s wine grapes begin to arrive on the crush pad in late summer and throughout the fall. For 2024, that optimism seems especially merited. “I ...

A home vineyard, and in turn, a home grape farm, proves to be one of the most gratifying gardening adventures you can ever ...

UC Davis will host the first conference on hybrid wine grapes and their potential environmental and economic benefits to ...

WALLA WALLA -- When considering the process of winemaking, some minds might recall Episode 23 of "I Love Lucy," titled "Lucy's Italian Movie." While the iconic scene, featuring Lucille Ball and Teresa ...

Whether you eat them raw or use them in wine production, grapes are an amazing fruit. Knowing a few facts about grapes can help you impress friends at your next wine tasting or choose the best bunch ...

People interbred domesticated vines with wild fruit. This is an Inside Science story. Many of the varieties of grapes used in today's wines are hundreds of years old. Genetic analysis shows that ...

So what are niche grapes? For now, at least in how they relate to the Pennsylvania wine industry, they remain a small but interesting growth area. Jancis Robinson, among the best known of the world’s ...