A glut of grapes and sagging demand are forcing California vintners to make tough decisions, with even Napa Cabernet ...

Michelle Distinguished Professor in Viticulture, leads the new four-year project that was awarded a grant this year from the ...

Were they successful? The early attempts were not successful. The grape that human beings have used for millennia to make wine is the species Vitis vinifera, which evolved in Europe and the ...

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.

California makes the most wine in the United States and much of it comes from just a handful of grapes. From Cabernet Sauvignon to Chardonnay, these are the 7 most important California wine grapes.

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 ...

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 ...

For someone who socializes with royalty and makes a wine that sells for roughly $33,000 a bottle, the 48-year-old Pasquet is ...

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 ...

French Colombard, a white French variety with crisp acidity, was the most widely planted white grape in California until the 1990s, when Chardonnay overtook it. There’s still a lot of it in the ground ...

This is a difficult time for wine grape growers in California's Central Valley and around the state. Not as many people are raising a glass of red or white wine these days "The wine industry has ...