Wine has been made by humans for about 7,000 years, and experts agree that until quite recently it may not have tasted very good. For millennia wine has been the ultimate expression of agriculture, ...

A new methodology that makes it possible to know what physiological state the yeast is in at each point in the wine fermentation process has been developed. “By drawing an analogy with cinema,” he ...

A chronic problem in winemaking is “stuck fermentation,” when yeast that should be busily converting grape sugar into alcohol and carbon dioxide prematurely shuts down, leaving the remaining sugar to ...

In winemaking, grape juice is turned to wine during the fermentation process by the action of a number of essential beneficial microorganisms -- namely, bacteria. Sometimes, though, harmful bacteria ...

Traditionally, when wine is being fermented, if the yeast in the fermentation process ends up doing something it shouldn't, it could take a few days before anyone is able to notice what has happened.

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Rice wine production is a sophisticated fermentation process that harnesses a diverse array of microbial communities to convert carbohydrates and other substrates into ethanol and a suite of ...

It is a product of nature. It is a scientific construct. It is poetry in a glass. And the wine you and I will drink today is the result of a process by which winemakers have taken that agricultural ...

TOWN OF FRANKLIN (WLUK) -- Late summer and early fall temperatures bring grape harvesting season to Wisconsin. Wineries across the state have opportunities for the public to partake in the festivities ...