Too often wine bars make it their primary mission to shine clinical floodlights on wine, even when their customers would prefer to leave the mystery intact.
Wednesday, Oct. 7, is New York Farm Day in the U.S. Senate where New York's status as a major farm state and agriculture's role in its economy will be spotlighted for key Congressional lawmakers.
Red Tail Ridge Winery in Penn Yan, Yates County, on Sunday began using its new environmentally low-impact production facility for fermenting wine, co-owner Nancy Irelan says.
Hit hard by the still-declining economy and other operating challenges, the New York foodservice community is struggling with a hostile business climate that already has overpowered several of the city's biggest restaurants.
George Washington Campbell, who served as secretary and president of the Ohio State Horticultural Society in the mid-1800's and who operated a grape and fruit nursery that supplied Delaware grown fruits throughout the world, was posthumously honored Monday
It looked like the beginning of the end for Unionville Winery when winemaker Cameron Stark found himself getting ready to tag the facility's winemaking equipment for sale.
U.S. consumption of Argentine wines is rising as the global recession spurs even the wealthy to hunt for bargains. In the first six months of 2009, imports from the South American country rose 34 percent from a year earlier to $103 million, while mainstays Italy, Australia and France recorded U.S. sales slumps of as much as 30 percent.