Grape growers are in a particularly unique situation. Declining demand for wine and an increase in imported wine means there’s a glut of grapes this year, and it’s so bad there’s a surge in ...

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.

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 ...