Each bottle starts with carefully hand-picked aszú berries, or botrytized grapes affected by noble rot (which we'll touch on ...

Malbec, a virtually forgotten grape in its ancestral home of Bordeaux, has been reborn in a land thousands of miles away in another hemisphere. Although once an important part of the noble grape ...

Tempranillo, the noble grape of Spain, offers tons of value and flavor for wine lovers. And while Spain is still the go-to location for this variety, we're finding more and more regions producing ...

The area owes its fame to a special strand of fungus called botrytis (or the “noble rot”), the ingredient that transforms the overripe grapes into small, shrivelled raisin-like berries with ...

Noble Grapes (Alsace): Riesling, Pinot Gris, Gewürztraminer and Muscat. The French term is cépages nobles. These varieties, if made from Alsace Grand Cru vineyards, can be labeled under the Alsace ...

Also known as "noble rot," it is a beneficial mold that grows on ripe wine grapes in the vineyard under specific climatic conditions. The mold dehydrates the grapes, leaving them shriveled and ...