Wine News

Last week when we spoke to Food Network Star Robert Irvine as he prepared to revitalize Ristorante Barolo in Aptos on his show "Restaurant: Impossible," we thought we'd pick his brain on a creative way to use ingredients that are grown here in Santa Cruz County.

San Joaquin County extension viticulture advisor Paul Verdegaal and Barefoot winemaker Jennifer Wall focus on Lodi Zinfandel during presentations at Lodi Grape Day.

Nebraska winemakers will have a chance to learn from experts and meet with vendors at a trade show in Kearney next month.

Andre Shearer, the South African born founder and chairman of New York based Cape Classics, makes this claim in the latest edition of the influential Wine Spectator.

London wine merchant Berry Bros & Rudd is celebrating a 25m bumper year for internet sales with social media playing an increasingly important role in the company's business.

Russia may lose from 20 to 50 percent of its vineyard harvest this year because of bitter cold as temperatures have dipped to below minus 20 degrees Celsius, Vedomosti business daily reported Monday quoting winemakers.

The city's effort to revive a section of west College Street - part of the old Route 66 through the... At the Institute for Continental Climate Viticulture and Enology , research and teaching teams work on viticulture and enology involving both undergraduate and graduate students at MU as well as MU Extension specialists.

How lovely it was to arrive in the slanting evening sunshine of Beaune, the unofficial capital of Burgundy's Cote-d'Or, a place as dignified and rewarding as the wines it purveys to a grateful world.

Trying to corner London Grill owner Terry Berch McNally on Thursday night at her new Paris Wine Bar was akin to nabbing a butterfly out in the field with a net.

I don't know about you, but I'm always looking for my next good cake recipe. Below we have one that is moist, delicious and easy to prepare.

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More than a year after the giant hole under Jeff and Taryn Hildreth's home became the subject of a lawsuit, the couple's dream of a wine bar and art gallery has only become more complicated.

Tour-goers explore Heritage Vineyards and Winery in Mullica Hill during the Wine & Chocolate Wine Trail Weekend event on Saturday.

Champagne, more specifically pink Champagne or Rose Champagne, is a suggestive and seductive choice on the most romantic holiday of the year.

A smaller crop and growing demand helped boost the value of central San Joaquin Valley wine grapes last year, state statistics show.

MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN: Errol Wilkinson and Kylie Cornelius of Vavasour Wine and Mark Heard of ORA olive oil, from left, won a wine and food match competition at the Marlborough Wine and Food Festival with a Vavasour pinot noir and smoked venison pizza combination.

Abby's, in Manchester Road, Broadgreen , sold a bottle of fake Jacob's Creek pinot grigio to an Environmental Health officer on March 31, 2011.

Don't worry, you don't need to break out your rain poncho. No one is inviting you to an event where people will be slinging wine in your general direction.

The late freezes and untimely rain impacted California's wine grape harvest just as vintners had predicted: The 2011 harvest was down 7 percent to 3.3 million tons.

The unusually mild winter that has been gripping the U.S., is impacting a sweet treat from nature, ice wine.