A barefoot person stomping on purple grapes in a red basin. - Halfpoint/Getty Images You may remember the concept of grape stomping, the practice of crushing grapes with one's bare feet as part of the ...

Maybe you've peppered the wine terms "minerality" or "electricity" into a fabulous monologue at a wine-tasting party. If so, congratulations! But even more than terroir, one of the biggest defining ...

Another winemaking season is in the books for Pecan Creek Winery. To celebrate the end of the harvest, the winery is having its annual grape stomp. “Now, luckily, we do not have to get the juice from ...

Wine history is laden with invention. Specialized harvesting equipment, optical grape sorting machines, bottling lines and temperature-controlled fermentation tanks have made the winemaking process ...

We asked RTD Vines & Wines columnist Jack Berninger to harvest some grape information for thirsty (or simply curious) Virginians. Here, he counts the steps. Once the growing season has ended, ...

The University of California opened its doors in 1869 with just 10 faculty members and 40 students. Today, the UC system has more than 295,000 students and 265,000 faculty and staff, with 2.0 million ...