Deep green wine bottles whir along in a neat row. They twist and twirl through the mechanical line as if they were practicing a perfectly timed dance. Their audience: safety-goggled college students.

It's a new era for winemaking. Long the domain of craftsmen and connoisseurs, scientists worldwide are utilizing new technologies and combining forces to create better vino. In fact, Washington State ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Robotic drones in the vineyard aren't new; they can tell the weather and they can provide all kinds of crop data. In the winery, too, such helpers as robotic bottling and palleting lines are almost ...

Cabernet Sauvignon. Chardonnay. Marquette … wait, what? For many of us more casual wine drinkers, we can easily identify the Old World grapes that for centuries have been grown throughout the world ...

Archaeologists have unearthed some of the earliest evidence of winemaking in the world, dating back about 8,000 years. Excavations in the Republic of Georgia dug up shards of pottery from the Early ...

Though serious wines have been coming out of the Santa Maria Valley since the 1970s, it’s never been the most inviting appellation to tour. Many of the prime wineries and iconic vineyards are ...