Winegrowers are drilling down to create optimal soil and circumstances. By Kathleen Willcox Winemaking has always been a marriage — or, at times, a compromise — between art and science. In recent...
Is it any surprise that not enough people in the wine business noticed the anti-drinking efforts and tried to do something about them? Probably not. Over the last couple of years, the wine business has...
Could the no and low movement save the wine industry? By Kathleen Willcox The resistance among hardcore oenophiles to the rise of low and no alcohol wines was completely understandable … at first....
There are so many costs that go into a bottle of wine. In addition to the expenses associated with growing grapes, making and packaging the wine, vintners face the cost of ...
Whole-bunch vinification is a practice that can change the sensory properties of wine. Experimental wines resulting from the addition of stems in varying ...
The people winemakers rely on are often performing the most important aspects of production. By Janice Williams When we think about the stars of winemaking, the winemaker often stands in the limelight....
Wine industry supplier Ed Barr shares his take on today’s wine troubles. Ed Barr Ed Barr, president and CEO of not one, but three, equipment and machinery solutions companies serving the wine industry,...
One Ohio winery is making low-alcohol wines as a matter of course. By Paul Vigna You could say winemaker Joe Juniper at Vermillion Valley Vineyards in Wakeman, Ohio, is ahead of the low-alcohol...
At 2024 ZAP, it became clear that California Zinfandel has finally grown up By Randy Caparoso There is, undoubtedly, no organization that’s done more for a single varietal category than Zinfandel Advocates...
By Kathleen Willcox For decades, the Venn Diagram intersection of the Latinx and the wine communities happened solely in the vineyard. Slowly but surely, that’s changing — thanks to people...
