SAN PASQUAL VALLEY — Grape juice swirling around their anklesand oozing between their toes, Phoenix resident Joyce Featherstoneand her daughter, Lisa Taraborelli, said it’s no coincidence thatwomen ...

The North Coast grape harvest is picking up speed this week as warm breezy days and cool nights nudge the reluctant 2006 crop toward what some worry will be a particularly hectic conclusion. “We’re a ...

For the 2006 Livermore Valley wine grape harvest, less truly may be more. So far, the crop is smaller than the 2005 bumper season, when California growers harvested 3.7 million tons of grapes. It is ...

Wine-lovers are in for some interesting local wines this year, as winemakers report that the grapes harvested to date are of exceptional quality. The harvest of the first grape varieties started ...

YOUNTVILLE – Winery workers Ignacio Trujillo and Juan Rodriguez on Wednesday dumped the season’s first grapes into the press at Mumm Napa, uncorking Wine Country’s long and hectic harvest. It was the ...

If 2005 was the year that mixologists fell in love with pomegranate, 2006 is shaping up to be the year of the grape. At Firefly, manager Derek Brown garnishes his Luxe Interior, an innocent-looking ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The year 2003 was a good one for Denver’s Balistreri Vineyards. Extended fall weather allowed the grapes to linger longer on the vine. Thirteen tons of ...