(CN) --- As temperatures continue to soar and more crop types are affected by climate change, winemakers in California’s San Joaquin Valley are looking for inventive solutions to keep the sauce ...

Wine grapes are particularly finicky when it comes to their environment. For instance, heatwaves and droughts lead to earlier berry ripening and lackluster wine. And these types of episodes are ...

Early fruit ripening is a valuable trait for grape cultivation, but the underlying epigenetic mechanisms have remained elusive. A new study uncovers how CHH site hypermethylation influences the early ...

June 30 (UPI) --When heatwaves and droughts strike, grapes tend to ripen earlier and faster, yielding less flavorful grapes for winemaking. Unfortunately, vineyards all over the world are likely to ...

From around the valley, grapegrowers are reporting that veraison, the stage of growth when grapes begin to change color, is under way from five days to a month earlier than usual. The onset of ...

High elevation environments profoundly impact grapes. Below is a brief look at how elevation shapes wine’s aroma and taste profile and tasting notes on a selection of ‘high-elevation wines.’ Due to ...

LORENA, Texas (KWTX) - It has been an extremely hot summer and that heat is now causing a certain fruit to become ripe weeks ahead of schedule. Country Spring Vineyard in Lorena has had to ramp up ...

Although wine is often seen as a traditional business, Spanish winemaker Miguel A. Torres turned his family’s company into a ...

The calendar has turned to November, and wineries around San Luis Obispo County are full of tired employees ready for this year’s delayed harvest season to be done. “It’s been intense, gnarly and fast ...