If you live in the Midwest, out West, or really anywhere but the South, you may have never encountered a delightful and ...
Even Harper Lee even wrote about scuppernong grapes. So what exactly are they? Scupper-what? Repeat after me: "Scup-per-nong.
A month after Tropical Storm Helene, Asheville area brewery owners question the future of their business while picking up the ...
On a misty morning in October, winemaker Vincent Bolenor gathers his team among rows of vines heavy with grapes. They’ll spend the next day plucking the fruit from carefully cultivated ...
The North Coast wine grape market is experiencing significant challenges as this year’s harvest season progresses. Growers and wineries are grappling with oversupply, reduced demand and pricing ...
At this time, it appears that Neolithic farmers began cultivating the best vines with the biggest, juiciest grapes. To learn more about the route that domesticated grapevines followed, a genomic ...
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 ...
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Avoid woody or wrinkled grapes. Grapes that hang loosely from their stalks should be sweeter, but will have a shorter lifespan. Some grapes don’t peel easily, in which case cover a small ...
They have referred growers to their insurers. Frost-hit farmers in Australia's largest wine-grape growing region have been denied financial aid by the South Australian government. Freezing ...
Nearly 1,000 pounds of N.C.-grown Scuppernong grapes had been foot-stomped to create the mixed culture Saison, Mothervine. “Tons of beer” packaged for retail sale is now “completely gone.” ...