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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Muscadine wine is made with a specific type of grape that’s native to the Southeast U.S. The deep purple and bronze-toned grapes that make muscadine wine are native to North Carolina.

“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 ...

Michelle Sakazaki is the founder of Kazumi Wines, the first winery in the United States to grow and produce Koshu, an ancient pink grape native to Japan. Her journey began in 2018 in her parents ...

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 ...