One common mistake gardeners make when harvesting their concord grapes is picking them too early. While early harvested grapes are still usable for grape jelly, grape juice, wine or other recipes, the ...

(CN) --- As temperatures continue to soar and more crop types are affected by climate change, winemakers in California’s San Joaquin Valley are looking for inventive solutions to keep the sauce ...

Early fruit ripening is a valuable trait for grape cultivation, but the underlying epigenetic mechanisms have remained elusive. A new study uncovers how CHH site hypermethylation influences the early ...

June 30 (UPI) --When heatwaves and droughts strike, grapes tend to ripen earlier and faster, yielding less flavorful grapes for winemaking. Unfortunately, vineyards all over the world are likely to ...

Wine grapes are particularly finicky when it comes to their environment. For instance, heatwaves and droughts lead to earlier berry ripening and lackluster wine. And these types of episodes are ...

It’s vine time as muscadines and scuppernongs are ripening now. These sour-skinned, but spicy-sweet on the inside native grapes, often referred to as the “Grapes of the South,” are like rutabagas and ...

LORENA, Texas (KWTX) - It has been an extremely hot summer and that heat is now causing a certain fruit to become ripe weeks ahead of schedule. Country Spring Vineyard in Lorena has had to ramp up ...

CARRINGTON - The idea that the old North Dakota sod can push up vines with sweet grapes for winemaking seems crazy on the best of days, much less a winter one. Not only can the old sod produce grapes, ...