Considering there are an estimated 10,000 grape varieties, it's no surprise that not all of them soared in popularity. In fact, many have died out over time, while others were just on the brink of ...

Choosing can be confusing with the sheer volume of varieties. Although grapes come in many colors of the rainbow, when ...

Among these is a tradition with old roots and a new wave of popularity—eating 12 grapes at midnight. Known as the 12-Grape Theory, the custom promises good fortune for the coming year ...

To get the right combination of cold resistance and coveted wine flavor, Plocher and other breeders cross North America’s ...

Can grapes bring you luck? Spaniards believe so, and at midnight on New Year's Eve all across the country it's a race to gobble 12 grapes all before the first minute of the year passes.

Some cheer, or wish their loved ones a happy new year. And others crawl under a table and race to shove a dozen grapes in their mouths in under one minute. The ritual has a few variations ...

GSM wines—a blend of grenache, syrah, and mourvèdre that also can contain splashes of 19 other grape varieties—is a distinctive Côtes du Rhône blend that spread worldwide. Notable GSM ...

France is the ancestral home of the most-popular red grape varieties in the world. With the exception of tempranillo, the Top ...

The black grapes we enjoy today (Vitis vinifera) come in two varieties — one grows in Western Asia near the Black Sea, and the other grows in the Americas. Most are cultivated for use in wine ...