WineCompass

Corot noir courtesy of Double A Vineyards Is Corot noir, the new Pinot Noir for cold climate vineyards? Of course not; but this cross b...

With Friday October 26th being the 3rd Annual #ChampagneDay 2012 , I thought it wise to draft a compendium of the sparkling wines from aroun...

We recently learned that one of the founders of the post-Prohibition east coast wine industry was Philip Wagner, founder of Boordy Vineyards...

Like the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, the University of Minnesota instigated a grape breeding program to assist wine grow...

“vinum regorum, rex vinorum” – the wine of kings and the king of wines. This is how King Louis XIV of France described Tokaji Aszú, arguably...

Perhaps the highest quality wine produced by native grapes comes from the Diamond grape. Created in New York in the late 1800’s by crossing ...

Can you guess the flagship white grape for the Puget Sound region in Washington? Chardonnay? No. Pinot Gris? No. Gewürztraminer? Close, but ...

Chokeberry was an essential ingredient in the native American diet, either dried for winter use or mixed with fat and buffalo meat in pemmic...

“The purveyor of mostly forgettable plonk.” This is how renowned wine critic Anthony Gismondi once described the British Columbia wine indus...

Texas is a grape paradise? Yes, insist many Texas wine growers. And considering that the state currently produces over 50% of the known spec...

Traditionally, grapes are cultivated in each region based on geographic conditions, and not necessarily on which wine is is most popular in ...

The first mention of wine in modern literature occurred in the Book of Genesis’s story of Noah’s Ark. After the Ark landed on Mount Ararat, ...

Grape juice with a kick. That is a common description of Steuben wine, a native hybrid labrusca. Similar to the Concord grape, Steuben produ...

"Science overcomes harsh growing conditions to enable colder climates grow quality grapes." This headline describes Cayuga, a grap...

"The medicine chest of the common people." This is how American Indians and early settlers described the Elderberry - one of the m...

Muscadine or Vitis rotundifolia is often considered “America’s First Grape” and was consumed by the earliest explorers and settlers. In 184...

Blaufränkisch, Limberger, Kékfrankos, Franconia, Blauer Limberger, Lemberger. Six distinct grapes? No, each is a synonym for the same grape ...