UC Davis will host the first conference on hybrid wine grapes and their potential environmental and economic benefits to ...

Every winemaker is seemingly an optimist when a new harvest’s wine grapes begin to arrive on the crush pad in late summer and throughout the fall. For 2024, that optimism seems especially merited. “I ...

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 ...

LIVERMORE, Calif. (KGO) -- The grape harvest is officially underway in Livermore Wine Country in the East Bay. It came two weeks earlier than last year but under some challenging conditions. Brent ...

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 ...

People interbred domesticated vines with wild fruit. This is an Inside Science story. Many of the varieties of grapes used in today's wines are hundreds of years old. Genetic analysis shows that ...

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 ...

It’s not just row crop farmers dealing with challenges and low prices. In California, prices are low for everything from nuts to fruits, and financial stress is weighing heavily on farmers. Grape ...

If you’ve been searching for locally produced organic wine to accompany your grass-fed beef, your wish may soon be fulfilled. You can look forward to the time when you decant wine made from grapes ...