Wine grape growing is not nearly so simple as plant a vine and watch it grow. Think of a grapevine as a machine designed to produce a product. And “designed” is appropriate word. Vines that give us ...

Winemakers seeking grapes that hang on the vine weeks longer than they did in the past and growers who believe they're losing money by this practice met in almost equal numbers on neutral ground in St ...

While enology is the study of wine and wine making, viticulture is the science of the cultivation of grapes. The climate of a vineyard determines many of the characteristics of the grapes in the ...