Hybrid grapes are becoming more common in winemaking, but what are they? Hybridization is the process of creating a new grape variety by combining two other varieties, usually through the grafting of ...

Having grown up at Bethel Heights, her family’s vineyard in Willamette Valley, it’s unsurprising that wine is in Mimi Casteel’s blood. After cultivating a background in forestry and ecology, a ...

In the fall of 2011, on the heels of an “epic breakup” (you know the ones), I decided to channel my inner Elizabeth Gilbert and take a dear friend’s mother up on an offer to live with her in Sonoma, ...

If you're like most wine lovers, you've fantasized about making your own wine. At the winery inside your head, you live among picturesque vineyards and spend peaceful hours crafting marvelous wines ...

To pick a bottle of wine can often feel like roulette, especially when wine terms like “malolactic fermentation” and “carbonic maceration” are involved. However, if you understand a few key ...

It doesn't have to be a nightmarish process, though. UK-based Naked Wines is helping democratize winemaking by investing in talented independent winemakers from around the world, now including the ...