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

"The Santa Cruz Mountains south of Loma Chiquita has Uvas Creek leading east to Little Uvas Creek emptying into Uvas ...

In the local dialect, apalta means “bad soil,” – referring to the low fertility of the land, so, very little in the way of crops could grow, except wine grape vines. It wasn’t ideal as ...

As Julio Covarrubias stood at the foot of a row of grapevines in the Livermore Valley where he has spent the last ...