When winemaker Stuart Spencer attended August's first public pouring of American Tempranillo at Copia, the American Center for Wine, Food & the Arts in Napa, he was stunned to see so many colleagues.

This cluster of naturally white-skinned grapes shows initial symptoms of "noble rot" infection, as the white grape berries turn pink. For hundreds of years, the fungus Botrytis cinerea has been key to ...

In recent weeks, I’ve tried a couple of excellent Spanish wines made from 100 percent Garnacha, a grape with a long, colorful history. The wines are full- bodied, inky red and have a lot of fruit ...

Given a chance, many varieties, once scorned or dismissed, have proven they can shine. Why constrain our thinking about them by creating hierarchies? By Eric Asimov The way people talk about wine ...

“Noble” is a term used (especially in France) to denote the grapes from which the most exceptional wines are produced. The noble French reds are well known to most people who own a corkscrew: Cabernet ...

Last week marked the first anniversary of the official worldwide observance of March 13 as the birthday for riesling, the noble grape of Germany that’s such an important chapter in the biography of ...

There are a number of factors that, blended together, determine a wines particular flavor profile, namely grape variety, “terroir” (soil and climate), winemaking techniques, the vines age, weather ...

Though at times it feels like winter is never going to pry its icy fingers off Long Island, spring weather really is on the way. And with the spring comes an urge to drink lighter, yet still refined, ...

THE way people talk about wine often reflects their other beliefs about the world. Until fairly recently, generations of wine authorities habitually referred to the "noble" grapes, classically a group ...