Hybrid grapes are becoming more common in winemaking, but what are they? Hybridization is the process of creating a new grape variety by combining two other varieties, usually through the grafting of ...

In the fall of 2011, on the heels of an “epic breakup” (you know the ones), I decided to channel my inner Elizabeth Gilbert and take a dear friend’s mother up on an offer to live with her in Sonoma, ...

It's a new era for winemaking. Long the domain of craftsmen and connoisseurs, scientists worldwide are utilizing new technologies and combining forces to create better vino. In fact, Washington State ...

Having grown up at Bethel Heights, her family’s vineyard in Willamette Valley, it’s unsurprising that wine is in Mimi Casteel’s blood. After cultivating a background in forestry and ecology, a ...

If you're like most wine lovers, you've fantasized about making your own wine. At the winery inside your head, you live among picturesque vineyards and spend peaceful hours crafting marvelous wines ...

Deep green wine bottles whir along in a neat row. They twist and twirl through the mechanical line as if they were practicing a perfectly timed dance. Their audience: safety-goggled college students.

Winemaking is a delicate balance of science, nature and artistry that varies from vintner to vintner. You can smell, taste and feel the winemaker’s approach to this balance in each glass.

Successfully maintaining a business for decades is impressive, but doing it for hundreds of years is quite the feat. Marchesi Antinori, a historic winemaking company, has stayed in business for over ...

This is the last installment in my three-part series on organic, biodynamic and sustainable winemaking. Organic and biodynamic farming, as mentioned in my previous columns, are two methods that eschew ...

A Silk Road Wine Trail Karas Monument at the entrance of Rind Village in Vayots Dzor, Armenia. Photo by Karine Vann, Smithsonian This is the second article in a two-part series on Armenian karases.

WHEN MICHEL ROLLAND was named the winemaking consultant to France's Château Figeac two months ago, a great protest was registered in certain wine-drinking circles. The St. Émilion grand cru would be ...

Winemaking in Paris is back, and tours in Montmartre can introduce travellers to the origins of the capital’s vineyard industry. In recent decades, Île-de-France has been working to resurrect its ...