Nebbiolo is arguably one of Italy’s oldest and most celebrated wine grapes, giving us the famed wines of barolo and barbaresco from Piemonte, a land of mountain vistas and white truffles.

Twenty-three of the 24 samples of Shine Muscat grapes sold across Bangkok and its vicinity exceeded the legal limit for pesticide residues, tests in a laboratory have revealed. The Thai-PAN (Pesticide ...

Almost all of world’s wine production depends on the common grape vine Vitis vinifera, with over 5000 cultivars of the species producing a range of flavours. Along with wine, grapes are also used to ...

One task, though, seems stubbornly resistant to being ceded to robots: picking grapes. Like all soft fruit, grapes have a narrow window of ripeness, and are prone to being bruised or crushed if ...

France’s champagne workers are being forced to pick grapes under scorching heat and living in makeshift quarters described as living “hell”. A string of investigations have alleged that some ...

They have referred growers to their insurers. Frost-hit farmers in Australia's largest wine-grape growing region have been denied financial aid by the South Australian government. Freezing ...