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 ...

The oldest grape seed fossils found so far were unearthed ... to modern grapes and others are distant relatives or grapes native to the Western Hemisphere. For example, some of the fossil species ...

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 ...

This past fall when the Montalcino province of Tuscany was hit by heavy rains and flooding, the agricultural area risked its most important, lucrative and storied product: it’s grape vines.