One task, though, seems stubbornly resistant to being ceded to robots: picking grapes. Like all soft fruit, grapes have a narrow window of ripeness, and are prone to being bruised or crushed if ...

Nebbiolo is arguably one of Italy’s oldest and most celebrated wine grapes, giving us the famed wines of barolo and barbaresco from Piemonte, a land of mountain vistas and white truffles.

France’s champagne workers are being forced to pick grapes under scorching heat and living in makeshift quarters described as living “hell”. A string of investigations have alleged that some ...

Almost all of world’s wine production depends on the common grape vine Vitis vinifera, with over 5000 cultivars of the species producing a range of flavours. Along with wine, grapes are also used to ...

Twenty-three of the 24 samples of Shine Muscat grapes sold across Bangkok and its vicinity exceeded the legal limit for pesticide residues, tests in a laboratory have revealed. The Thai-PAN (Pesticide ...