California wine grape acreage declined nearly 1% in 2023, according to an annual government report, but the president of the California Association of Winegrape Growers expects a steep dropoff this ...

People plant grapevines in their backyards to get a rural aesthetic or for the love of wine itself, or even just for the science of it all. By Alyson Krueger Craig Lemoine had a concrete slab in his ...

Vermentino was an experiment when Jay Raffaldini first planted that and Montepulciano on a hillside of North Carolina’s Yadkin Valley almost 20 years ago. Today, the owner of one of the state’s ...

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 ...

Christian Klay Winery is one of 326 wineries in Pennsylvania. Courtesy Thistlethwaite Vineyards Boutique vineyard Thistlethwaite Vineyards in Jefferson, Greene County, grows French hybrid grapes.

Debra Inglis provides an overview of the Canadian grape and wine industry’s challenges and innovations through the Cool Climate Oenology and Viticulture Institute (CCOVI) at Brock University Despite ...

To explain his perspective on Pennsylvania grapes, James Wilson heads into the vines. “I guess we’ll start where we started,” he says, cranking the wheel of an old farm truck, turning it off Forge ...

Scientists can now point to when and where the world's first grape came into being, paving the way for thousands of years of evolution, domestication by humans and of course, wine. Researchers on ...

The domestication of grapevine was a slow process in Italy, according to the study. (Jill Wellington/Pexels via Courthouse News) (CN) — Italian wine is prominent in the world of grape cultivation, but ...

The extinction of the dinosaurs around 66 million years ago may have helped facilitate the spread of grapes around the world, researchers have proposed. In a study published on Monday in the journal ...