You cant' make wine without bugs...some bugs are good, some are very, very bad. WINE IS BUGS – An exploration into how wine is made reveals that microscopic bugs are at work, though not all are ...

Wine is a little more than a drink and most people drink merely to have fun. For too long wine has been made mysterious, when it is little more than grape juice and alcohol. As one of the world’s ...

The yeast needed to brew pale lagers and dark stouts alike has a long and complex pedigree that traces back to yeasts used for European and Asian wines. The team found that beer-brewing strains derive ...

A man walks into a store and asks for a bottle of Stinson Vineyards wine. "Over easy, sunny side up or scrambled?" asks the wine shop owner. Huh? Probably wouldn't happen that way, but that leads us ...

A winemaker in southwest France has invented and patented a new process that involves submerging wine barrels under water. In the French Basque Country, in the bay off Saint-Jean-de-Luz, undersea ...

Sequencing the genomes of hundreds of strains of the wine yeast S. cerevisiae has revealed little genetic diversity and high levels of inbreeding. In many cases, yeast strains sold by different ...

Andrea Perez, a fourth-year undergraduate in viticulture and enology, inspects cabernet sauvignon grapes during the grape crush at UC Davis. The grapes are crushed for upcoming classes and research ...