Fermentation is the fundamental process in winemaking through which grapes are made into wine. Yeast fermentation is key to ...

An estimated 500,000 hobbyists in North America are making wine with purchased grapes, juice, even berries. Some even grow their own. By Eric Asimov Reporting from Geyserville, Calif., and New ...

To capture the essence of the region in a bottle — in a way that doesn’t harm the environment — Hudson Valley and Catskills natural winemakers are seeking out hybrid, native and wild grapes.

The hot topic in wine writing of late is, not surprisingly, the downturn in sales. We are consuming less. Combine that with ...

Seeding the grapes is a bit tedious, but worth it. The seeds are often quite large and there are two seeds per grape. The trick is to halve the grapes vertically with a paring knife, not horizontally.

A large international group of researchers collected and analyzed 2,503 unique vines from domesticated table and wine grapes and 1,022 wild grapevines.

Grapes and wine hold great cultural and ... they generated a high-quality chromosome-level reference genome of the wild grapevine progenitor Vitis sylvestris and re-sequenced over 3,000 ...

“There are at least 20 to 30 species of native grape species in North America, and no one is making wine with them,” Niess said. “That seemed like a paradox, so I wanted to see how far I ...

Orange wine instead is the popular way of referring to what's more technically, albeit clumsily, called "skin-contact white wine." When it comes to most wine grapes, the flesh of the grape isn't ...