Wine News

We were hearing from some wine growers in Loudoun County earlier this week that a late spring frost had a detrimental effect on the grape crop this year.

There are hundreds of wine varieties in the world, but Friday, the fourth annual International Sauvignon Blanc Day, is dedicated to just one.

It's Friday, which means many of us are just counting the minutes until happy hour.

Two vineyards received seasonal licenses this week to sell wine at the Braintree Farmers Market that begins June 15.

"What's your favorite wine?" I get asked this a ton, and I get it. We have favorite football teams, grocery stores, uncles.

It's a wine of taffeta, well woven and of good yarn," said the French Renaissance writer and epicure Francois Rabelais of the charms of a chenin blanc.

When the Virginia Arts Festival performs at the Williamsburg Winery on Thursday, May 23, the menu will pair chamber music with fine food and wines.

Bacchus Capital Management first tapped into Oregon's wine country by investing in Dundee-based Wine by Joe in 2011.

Vinitaly International and US auction house Zachys are to host an auction in Hong Kong dedicated to Italian wines later this month.

This undated publicity photo provided by courtesy of Murphy-Goode Winery shows a bottle of Murphy-Goode Homefront 2011 red wine.

A large crowd lines up for samples a recent Southern New Mexico Wine Festival. This year s festival will run from noon to 6 p.m. May 25 to 27, at Southern New Mexico Fairgrounds.

Gone are the days when pink wine was poo-pooed. People get it now: it's not Boone's Farm, and it's not sticky sweet.

My absolute favorite wines to drink this time of year aren't red a or white. They're pink.

A dozen universities are collaborating on a sort of extreme winemaking project: How cold a climate can a grape survive and still make good wine? The Northern Grapes Project is inventing wines the world has never seen before, winning wine awards and creating a new crop for struggling rural economies.

Why does California get all the attention when winemaking has been part of Pennsylvania's heritage for more than three centuries? The roots of winemaking were planted in the Keystone State by none other than William Penn.

The Livermore Valley Winegrowers are teaming with the Livermore Premium Outlets to present Sunset Sip & Shop on May 16, 2013 5 -8 p.m. For only $16 you can sample wines from 16 Livermore Valley Wineries while exploring the shops at Livermore Premium Outlets.

Many grape names emerged from ancient vintners' attempts to differentiate the vines they were cultivating by what they looked like or how they tasted.

We're back from BottleRock Napa Valley, where the flavors of wine country mixed last week with a multiday music festival.

From Alder Yarrow: *Robert Sinskey Pinot Gris, $22. 'I think it's one of the best value wines in the country.

With hundreds of small vineyards and a four-tier hierarchy of vineyard classifications, Burgundy is one of the more complicated wine regions on Earth.