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 ...

HERMANN Goering, Adolf Hitler’s second-in-command, survived the cut. Bottles of wine once owned by him – part of a collection ...

Despite its international origins, Zinfandel is most widely planted and most successful in California. Americans may associate the grape with white Zinfandel, an off-dry blush wine popular in the ...

Well, that is until recently, as they now make a white Pinot Noir wine from their Russian River Estate ... was gained over “1,300 years” of wine grape growing, guiding him.

Moldova has traces of grape cultivation stretching back ... Voronin gave the Russian president a bottle of wine in the shape of a crocodile, she recalled. Mr. Putin and others in the Russian ...

but Russian rockets on rare occasions have fallen within sight of workers in the vineyards, and Shabo’s wine salesmen have faced checkpoints and immediate induction into Ukraine’s military while ...