French Colombard, a white French variety with crisp acidity, was the most widely planted white grape in California until the 1990s, when Chardonnay overtook it. There’s still a lot of it in the ground ...

Jonathan Cristaldi is a wine journalist and educator based in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Napa Valley correspondent for Decanter, he is the founder of Cristaldi & Company, a creative content ...

A large vat of mechanically picked pinot noir grapes came into NW Wine Company Monday morning. The winemaking crew expects its final vat Tuesday. Sery explained some grapes are picked by hand for ...

Of all the long-lived Italian red wines that typically display their finest qualities at least 12-15 years after the harvest, none is as underappreciated as as little ...

blanch fresh grape leaves, in boiling water with salt for about 1-2 minutes. Then plunge into cold water and drain. Place the tomato slices and lemon rounds and pieces of garlic in a large deep ...

The new Smoke, Wine and Grapes Analytical Chemistry Lab at Wiegand ... of grapes impacted by wildfires so there wouldn't be a large backlog of samples. The state allocated $2.7 million from ...

Sanora Babb with a large group of the people she worked with ... what would become the iconic book about the Dust Bowl: "The Grapes of Wrath." He wrote it fast, completing his first draft by ...

“If the government continues to favour only-grape wineries, we could see a complete takeover of the industry by one or two large corporations. This would stifle innovation, reduce consumer ...

Place a grape leaf vein side up and cut off any thick stems. Spoon two teaspoons of filling near the base of the stem. Fold ...

When you get home with your Halloween haul, don't share it with your family pooch. Some of the brightly colored items in that ...

"We used their facilities to do some of the pressing and some of the processes where our equipment wasn't large enough to process the amount of grapes that they took in this term," explained ...