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. To pick a bottle of wine ...

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 ...

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.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is the last installment in my three-part series on organic, biodynamic and sustainable winemaking. Organic and biodynamic farming, as mentioned in my previous columns, are two methods that eschew ...

Thinking about becoming a winemaker? Obviously, there are plenty of amateur winemakers who have pursued their hobby and are making award-winning wines. But for those looking for a certificate and the ...

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 ...

Looking for wines with lighter tannins? This vinification technique is key. To pick a bottle of wine can often feel like roulette, especially when wine terms like “malolactic fermentation” and ...