Winery at a crossroads
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Once the crown jewel of the Napa Valley, the Robert Mondavi name is on the auction block and its future is uncertain. Robert Mondavi, 91, who more than any other person put premium California wine on the map
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The Supreme Court is considering whether states may bar people from buying wine directly from out-of-state suppliers, a big-money question that could lead to sweeping changes
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Somewhere in the heart of the medieval town of Siena, there's a trattoria, a little restaurant, where the bottle of wine the server sets at your table has no label.
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The Delicata Classic Wine Festival in Nadur provides wine drinkers with the chance to savour a wide variety of Maltese wines in a stunning location overlooking Comino and the Mgarr Harbour.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina  - Most people associate Argentine wine with the snow-capped Andes. But far from the mountains, in the country's soy and cattle-farming heartland, wine pioneers are putting down roots.
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ROME (Reuters Life!) - Many people say making wine is an art and an Italian winery once owned by Michelangelo has extended that notion right down to its labels.
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The world&#39;s biggest wine conglomerate, Constellation Brands, has snapped up the iconic but struggling Robert Mondavi Corp. of Oakville for more than a billion dollars, saving Napa Valley&#39;s best-known winery
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By PHILIP ELLIOTT Courier &amp; Press staff writer 461-0783 or elliottp@courierpress.com. From tidy stacks with alphabetized labels, workers at The Vineyard shuffled through more than 400 copies of &quot;The Passion
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For a growing number of churches, the boundary between sacred space and marketplace is coming down.
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A customer asked vintner Leon Santoro this week if he could ship a case of wine to the customer&#39;s home in New York. Not legally, replied Santoro, general manager of Orfila Vineyards &amp; Winery in Escondido.
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MONTEPULCIANO, Italy  - Faces furrowed with   concentration and biceps bulging, Lorenzo Martire and Giovanni   Zorn puffed their way up the narrow streets of this medieval   town, rolling the 175-pound oak wine barrel ahead of them.
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Bordeaux wine-makers in France face crisis distillation to reduce Europe's "wine lake", writes Caroline Wyatt.
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FOUR years ago, when Vino wine shop on Piedmont Avenue in Oakland began carrying wine made from the Sicilian grape Nero d'Avola, many customers had never heard of it.
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TEMECULA, California  - California wine country in fall is picture-perfect as vines turn gold and orange and workers harvest plump grape bunches to crush for cabernets, chardonnays and pinot noirs.
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Ann Heidig fulfilled a dream when she started her own winery in Central Virginia. She produces only 5,000 cases of wine a year â-oo few to attract a wholesale
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Fine wine isn't the only  thing that gets better with age.
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Juanita Swedenburg sells premium handcrafted wines made from grapes she grows on her 130-acre farm in northern Virginia, and after nearly 20 years in business she has developed a loyal following. But if a customer from Maryland crosses the Potomac River into Virginia, buys a case of Swedenburg Estate Vineyards wine and takes it home, he is breaking Maryland law regulating the sale and shipment of alcoholic beverages.