Choosing can be confusing with the sheer volume of varieties. Although grapes come in many colors of the rainbow, when ...

Like many French wine appellations, cognac restricts the grape varieties that can be used to produce the elegant spirit.

Among these is a tradition with old roots and a new wave of popularity—eating 12 grapes at midnight. Known as the 12-Grape Theory, the custom promises good fortune for the coming year ...

Can grapes bring you luck? Spaniards believe so, and at midnight on New Year's Eve all across the country it's a race to gobble 12 grapes all before the first minute of the year passes.

The black grapes we enjoy today (Vitis vinifera) come in two varieties — one grows in Western Asia near the Black Sea, and the other grows in the Americas. Most are cultivated for use in wine ...

They then sequenced genomes of an additional 3,186 different grapevine varieties obtained from scientific collections, including 2,237 samples from domesticated wine grapes and 949 wild grapes.

To get the right combination of cold resistance and coveted wine flavor, Plocher and other breeders cross North America’s ...

France is the ancestral home of the most-popular red grape varieties in the world. With the exception of tempranillo, the Top ...