and food writer has been with Food & Wine since the spring of 2021. It's an unspoken rule that grape harvest happens from early August through October in California. Hotel rates skyrocket and ...

18 unmasked judges on Tuesday stepped into the Showcase Cafe at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds in Santa Rosa for the first day of the Sonoma County Harvest Fair wine competition. And after two ...

The aftermath of the summer’s largest spectacle of conspicuous consumption, Food & Wine, includes a lot of leftovers. This year, Harvest for Hunger collected 2,964 pounds of products left behind by ...

The impressive numbers from 2014 have vineyard managers and wineries cautiously optimistic about this year’s wine grape crop despite an unusually hot summer that pushed harvest calendars ahead ...

That harvest point is crucial. Too long on the vine and the grapes have too much sugar in them, meaning the wine will be more alcoholic—not the subtle feel most winemakers in the region care for.