There are a number of factors that, blended together, determine a wines particular flavor profile, namely grape variety, “terroir” (soil and climate), winemaking techniques, the vines age, weather ...

People interbred domesticated vines with wild fruit. This is an Inside Science story. Many of the varieties of grapes used in today's wines are hundreds of years old. Genetic analysis shows that ...

Citing climate change and the idea it might repulse a well-documented vine disease, University of California, Davis, researchers have released new varieties of wine grapes. The five new varieties, ...

The world’s most planted wine grape is not just a modern workhorse of global vineyards, it is also a living archive of ...

For the first time since the 1980s, UC Davis researchers have released new varieties of wine grapes. T he five new varieties, three red and two white, are resistant to Pierce’s disease, which costs ...

But there are so many more wine grape varieties out there, most are indigenous to familiar wine regions, as well as lesser-known regions, and some are hybrids, new grapes that have been created. So, ...

In the wide world of wonderful wine drinking, chardonnay and sauvignon blanc lead the parade by far. None of the grapes reviewed in this article even make the top 20 in the world. That’s the point of ...

Plant geneticist Dario Cantu used a new sequencing technology and computer algorithm to produce a high-quality draft genome sequence of the cabernet sauvignon wine grape. (Gregory Urquiaga/UC Davis) ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The “classics” in the wine world have earned that categorization for a reason, and we’ll always be fond ...

With wine, older can often mean better. "Vintage," our word for "classily aged," comes from the winemaking process. Wines from decades ago can fetch far higher prices than freshly made ones. Wine ...