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, ...

Just how does grape juice become wine anyway? In today's edition of Ask The Expert we examine the core process behind the ...

Vicki Denig is a wine and travel journalist who divides her time between New York and Paris. She is a certified wine specialist who has worked in the wine trade since 2013. The techniques used to ...

Grape juice is in fermentation vessel — usually stainless steel, but wood or concrete also is used. Yeast decisions are made. More decisions for the wine maker. How do you manage fermentation? During ...

Ceramic clay used for wine fermentation, storage, and as a transport vessel is as old as ancient Greco/Roman culture. One of the Roman provinces, Gaul (France) at first eschewed using the ceramic ...

Next time you sip on a buttery Chardonnay, thank malolactic fermentation. As unglamorous as it sounds, this is an important, months-long component for many winemakers. A type of fermentation that can ...

In another advance for innovative winemaking, students and faculty at the University of California, Davis, are now processing wine with the world’s first wireless fermentation system, thanks to a ...

Cubans have found a homemade solution to making wine without high-tech fermentation tools: They use condoms. Homemade wine is an affordable spirit for Cubans, where a bottle of imported wine in ...