To make a white wine, green-skinned grapes are pressed, and the skins are removed. If the skins are left with the clear juice for a period, the wine becomes an “orange” or “amber” wine. To make red ...

Pinot Noir is red, right? Well, yes. And no. Which is to say, it doesn’t have to be. Like almost all red grapes, the flesh of a Pinot Noir grape is pale green, which means that if you crush the grapes ...

Gaja estate in Piedmont, Italy, is an iconic producer of red wines; bottles of Barolo and Barbaresco easily demand triple-digit prices. But several new projects show a focus not on the Nebbiolo grape ...

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When we heard that famed Spanish region Ribera del Duero allowed the bottling of a wine made from a white grape, Albillo Mayor, a few years ago, we were highly skeptical. After all, many of the ...

“People have been making wine for thousands of years; it’s not hard to make wine,” says Jimmy Corrado, whose family has run Corrado’s Market in Clifton for over 50 years. That’s heartening to hear ...

In sommelier-land, Chenin Blanc is unquestionably one of the favorites of the moment. But head out into the world of regular U.S. wine drinkers, and this white variety remains one of the least ...