California makes more than 80 percent of U.S. wine – on its own, the state is the fourth-largest wine producer in the world.

But, set aside the French Crémant or Sekt, other wine regions of the world are slowly representing their proudest grape variety in a unique sparkling way! A few years ago, I was visiting the area of ...

This colossal trawl makes it the perfect complement to last year's publication of Wine Grapes by the doughty Robinson, Harding and Vouillamoz. "This new database charts exactly what varieties are ...

They then sequenced genomes of an additional 3,186 different grapevine varieties obtained from scientific collections, including 2,237 samples from domesticated wine grapes and 949 wild grapes.

By Lucy Wyndham With the establishment of North Dakota’s first bonded winery as late as 2002, the state is the newest to ...

Gilbert Bischeri, winemaker in Aujac (southern France), in his plot of forbidden grape varieties. BENJAMIN BéCHET FOR M LE MAGAZINE DU MONDE On a late summer morning, a fresh breeze was blowing ...

It was the lowest of blows. In late September, Paul Bonin arrived early in the morning at his 2-acre vineyard in France’s Jura region to pick his first grapes of the harvest. The day before he had ...