The domestication of grapevine was a slow process in Italy, taking place over thousands of years, according to a study ...

Narrator: During harvest, 120,000 workers descend on Champagne to pick grapes from 84,000 acres of vines. Aurèlien Laherte: "It's harvested by hand, because the machines are forbidden by law.

a Champagne must be made according to a long, strictly regulated list of requirements that govern every step of the production process from grape to glass. This covers details like the permitted ...

Crucially, only sparkling wine that comes from the Champagne region of France, made exclusively from grapes grown there, can be labeled Champagne. And the restrictions don’t stop there.

This popular red grape originated in Burgundy but has spread across the New World. Like its white Burgundian counterpart Chardonnay, Pinot Noir is early-budding, early-ripening and thin-skinned. The ...

“Harvested from selected vineyards on one of the steepest regions facing south, Les Contrées – Rosé is an intense and distinguished maceration rosé: Les Riceys Pinot Noir in all its glory.” – ...

Pinot Noir is red, right? Well, yes. And no. Which is to say, it doesn’t have to be. Like almost all red grapes, the flesh of a Pinot Noir grape is pale green, which means that if you crush the ...