which he picked at 19 Brix (grape sugar) to maintain the variety’s “electric acidity and lively pop.” Whole cluster pressing and native fermentation — including full malolactic (conversion ...

Lucy Simon is a New York-based wine, spirits, and food writer has been with Food & Wine since the spring of 2021. There are more than 10,000 varieties of grapes grown globally, but only a small ...

“The Sagrantino grape, geographically and genetically unique, has an authentic, rich and overwhelming character,” Caprai says. “I strive to produce Sagrantino wines that are not only of ...

Developed by local physician Dr. Daniel Norton in the 1820s, the tiny Norton grape is the country’s oldest native wine variety. While it has endured several challenges over the years ...

the wild grape from which most wine grapes originate. This species is native to the Mediterranean region, central Europe, and Southwestern Asia around the Caspian Sea, but its use in winemaking ...

“It’s two different plots.” While both offerings are 100 percent ungrafted, organic, and made with native grape varieties, he says that, in the Denarius vineyard, “we have more ...