Wine has been made by humans for about 7,000 years, and experts agree that until quite recently it may not have tasted very good. For millennia wine has been the ultimate expression of agriculture, ...

After analysing different points of the process of the transformation of grape juice to wine, researchers concluded that the type of container (wooden cask or steel tank) employed notably influences ...

There is no season more intoxicating than summer, and it’s not because we all have that one friend with a pool, porch, or roof. It’s because long afternoons of hot concrete and wet grass melt into ...

Ceramicist-turned-winemaker Andrew Beckham in his studio with some of his terracotta amphorae. (Katherine Cole/Special to The Oregonian) For most of us, the sight of a wine cellar laden with wooden ...

Viniculture may have originated in Greece, but over the centuries Greek wine developed a bad reputation. So when Greece joined the European Union in 1981, Greek vintners took advantage of an influx of ...

What the heck is a slow wine? Is it a vino you portion out drip-by-drip? Is it anything like a sloe gin? Well, no. It is none of those things. But it is a new set of guidelines that might help you ...

PATERSON, Wash. -- A new wine trend is hitting eastern Washington, and it has some interesting shapes. Juan Munoz-Oca says he never imagined doing anything but winemaking. After creating wine in five ...

Archaeologists working at a Bronze Age cemetery in northwest China have uncovered pottery vessels containing residue that reveals a sophisticated brewing technique dating back nearly 4,000 years. The ...

Champagne is the star of New Year’s Eve and most celebrations — popped open for toasts and then hastily paired with ...

California-based wine company Ocean Fathoms offers a unique product for customers: bottles of wine encrusted with barnacles, seaweed, and other detritus from the depths of the Santa Barbara Channel.

A free-for-all, by definition, is a disorganized or totally unrestricted situation. In the year 2020, when most of us have been left to navigate horror after horror on our own with little guidance ...