You have probably heard of saving the redwood trees or old growth forests, but not many people have heard of preserving old grape vines. However, there are now a growing number of wine professionals ...

PARIS (Reuters) - A wine plague spread by lice destroyed vines in France in the 19th century but a small area in the Pyrenees, which contains plants up to 200 years old, was spared and is being ...

Today each vine might eke out a mere handful of fruit. But what delicious, mind-blowing fruit it is. Tinta de Toro grapes are known for power and heft, and the fruit from these ancient vines gets its ...

Like all of us as we mature, old vineyards have acquired a well-weathered depth of character. Driving past acres of trellised, cordoned vines in any wine country on earth, one glimpses occasionally ...

One of the earliest forests in the world was home to towering palmlike trees and woody plants that crept along the ground like vines, a new fossil find reveals. The forest, which stood in what is now ...

Oakley will be getting help preserving its old vineyards for posterity. The City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved a $13,700 contract with the Agricultural Natural Resources Trust of Contra ...

Its traditions are ancient, but the modern nation of Italy is a relatively recent invention. Just as the United States was torn by civil war in 1861, the disparate Italian states were being unified ...

A growing problem on the Greek island of Santorini is that low rainfall and searing temperatures have raised grape prices, ...

Archaeologists have revisited an ancient Roman dig site that hasn't been touched in a century — and found something incredible underneath. In a vineyard outside the Italian city of Verona, under ...