The first thing Vince Tofanelli will tell you about winemaking is that it starts with the vines. “This is an ancient way of growing,” he said. “We tend to forget that in Napa where every vine is on a ...

Vineyard owners and grape growers lie awake at night trying to map a path to the future through today’s volatile market.

It's easy to breeze past Napa, Sonoma and Mendocino vineyards and see just another iconographic California landscape -- ah, Wine Country -- but there's more to those neatly spaced rows of grapevines.

For years, I took the New World's thirst for vineyard irrigation for granted. I believed what I was told: Napa Valley was a desert and needed its 100 to 200 gallons of water per vine per season. I ...

REPORTING FROM CALISTOGA, CALIF. — The gnarled zinfandel grapevines on Rich Czapleski’s land have borne fruit for more than 100 years, producing dark, intense wines that exemplify the special growing ...

UC Davis students in the viticulture and enology program have been getting a first-hand look at how drought impacts wine grape growing. "Our vineyards are suffering somewhat, after three years of ...

DRIP irrigation is a method of irrigating row crops and it helps efficient utilisation of water that is a key input for agriculture. Given poor efficiency of our canal system because of sizable water ...