Under a moonlit sky, grape pickers in Portugal's Alentejo region are increasingly working through the night, a practice made more common by the country's longer, hotter summers. In this area, often ...

As summers grow longer and hotter, more vineyards are returning to an old tradition of harvesting wine grapes in the cool of the night.

The night harvest is a time-honored practice in viticulture, meant to preserve the freshness of grapes and shield them from the adverse effects of daytime heat, sunlight and oxidation. As summers in ...

Around mid-summer, Mike Masser was wondering whether there’d be a worthwhile crop this season at Benigna’s Creek Vineyard & Winery. The winter had been too cold, and the spring and early ...

When it’s harvest time, Yakima Valley vineyards will see activity ranging from crews hand-picking grapes to general managers operating forklifts and processing machines. And everything in between.

Minnesota has carved out a reputation as a great place to grow cold-climate grapes for wine, thanks to the Arboretum's Horticultural Research Center.

England’s wine industry has been growing dangerously fast. Encouraged by warmer summers, investors have been piling into English vineyards. (The term “English wine” is generally taken to encompass ...

KOFU—A university research institute here abandoned its practice of wasting booze in pursuit of creating the education world’s first fully independent wine-producing method, from raising grapes to ...

In 2024, Washington grape growers took advantage of a weather-induced shortage of grapes in British Columbia and a tax-free import exemption to send a sizable portion of their harvest north ...

Westfield is at the heart of the Lake Erie Concord Grape Belt, a band of 30,000 acres that stretches from Silver Creek to northwestern Pennsylvania. Each fall, the breeze from Lake Erie brings the ...

MADISON COUNTY, Ky. (WKYT) - When it comes to vineyards, weather can play a critical role. Also the timing of wet and dry weather can be important as well like at places like Chenault Vineyards in ...