Call it the Louvre of art museums, the Rose Bowl of college football, the Everest of mountaineering, or something more clever that you come up with on your own, but I think we can all agree that ...

Herb Rowland tells a story about how he recently read in a wine magazine that Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars had taken a “big chance” planting cabernet sauvignon grapes back in the early 1970s. “You want to ...

Seeking a spot in Napa Valley to grow grapes and make wine, Sullivan Rutherford Estate founder James O’Neil Sullivan and his wife, JoAnna, purchased a particular 26 acres of land in the heart of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tom Hyland writes about wine (and sometimes) food from Europe and US. Stuart Spoto and his daughter Alexi with just harvested ...

One night, many hundreds of years ago, the grapevines cabernet franc and sauvignon blanc nuzzled up to each other, somewhere in the Bordeaux region of France, and made a baby. They took the first ...

An integral part of Mediterranean culture, wine is made by fermenting pressed grape juice. The resulting drink consists of water and alcohol, alongside volatile chemical compounds (aldehydes, ketones, ...

Like every other white wine grape, Sauvignon Blanc lives in the long shadow of the market champion Chardonnay, which, in terms of popularity, really is the vanilla of the wine universe. (Cabernet ...

Beloved by consumers and professionals alike, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot are responsible for producing some of the world’s most coveted wines, as well as some of its most accessible. But what are ...