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 ...

Research has found that grapes somewhat protect against the onset of Alzheimer's disease, which is the most common type of dementia. Other antioxidants found in grapes, called polyphenols ...

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.

Winemakers facing the adverse effects of climate change should revive ancient wine grape varieties that survived for centuries in Israel’s Negev Desert, say experts at the University of Haifa. They ...

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