This cluster of naturally white-skinned grapes shows initial symptoms of "noble rot" infection, as the white grape berries turn pink. For hundreds of years, the fungus Botrytis cinerea has been key to ...

Despite their bad reputation, mold, yeast, and fungus are responsible for some of the tastiest things in our lives, such as blue cheese, bread, pizza crust, soy sauce, miso, and of course mushrooms ...

NAPA (AP) – Things got fuzzy in the Dolce vineyard this harvest. The mold known as botrytis sneaked in with early rains, and once-pale green semillon grapes shriveled into purple, furry blobs. The ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Letter news every morning. I enjoyed Natalie Whittle’s article “The vine details” (Life & Arts, July 7). In it she refers to “the ...

If you like dessert wines, 2006 is shaping up as an amazing year in California, thanks to a bumper crop of botrytis fungus that is currently foremost in many winemakers' minds. Botrytis is called ...

The holiday season is a time to indulge, and Sauternes — the sweet white wine from France’s Bordeaux region — is a perfect fit. Made from sauvignon blanc, semillon and muscadelle grapes, Sauternes is ...

One of the icons of the wine lover is ”noble rot,” an oxymoronic term referring to a peculiarity of nature that results in the world`s greatest sweet white wines. Wines affected by noble rot, a mold, ...

Mugaritz, the acclaimed Basque Country restaurant known for its $200+ modernist tasting menu and black toilet paper, has added an unlikely new dish to its 2017 menu: a moldy apple. The course is ...