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Before embarking on your grape-growing journey, it’s important to know that it can take three or four years for vines to produce fruit. Just because you have a successful grape harvest doesn’t mean ...
It’s been said that great wine begins in the vineyard. While grapes can grow in many kinds of environments, only a few ...
Wine grapes can be used to make some outstanding jelly. Most jelly recipes are flexible regarding grape variety, so you can use Zinfandel, Syrah, or Merlot instead of Concord.
But with a little math to the rescue, winemakers agree that most bottles of wine include about 2.5 pounds of grapes, which ...
Texas is unique in the wine world because of its size and location on the Gulf of Mexico. The area along the Gulf Coast is warmer during winter with less frosts. The Gulf Coast region is unique with ...
Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and Pinot Meunier, the holy trinity of Champagne, are familiar sights in the region’s great cuvées.
There’s a red grape you may be hearing more about in the Northeast and the Mid-Atlantic in coming years. It’s not new — in fact, it’s one of the oldest wine grapes in the world. It’s ...
It was named for the native grapes growing wild in the mountains. California has produced wine since the Spanish Missions, however there is a common misconception in that statement.
Concord grapes don’t make good wine (they are used in some kosher wines, most famously Manischewitz). The grape jelly we made was OK, but not worth the yard space the grapes took up.
Finot makes about 10,000 cases of wine each year, earning national and international acclaim. Matthieu Finot says a combination of science and art goes into the making of wine.
Growing your own grapes can be a fun project, once you understand how to train and prune your vines. If you’ve grown your own table grapes, you will notice that they don’t look quite the same ...
Growing your own grapes can be a fun project, once you understand how to train and prune your vines. If you’ve grown your own table grapes, you will notice that they don’t look quite the same ...