Top winemakers are betting big on the grape again.

Everything you need to know about one of America’s favorite red wines. Merlot is one of the world’s most popular red wines, and America’s second favorite after Cabernet Sauvignon. Known for its soft, ...

Vicki Denig is a wine and travel journalist who divides her time between New York and Paris. She is a certified wine specialist who has worked in the wine trade since 2013. Cabernet Sauvignon may be ...

Part of the fascination of visiting PA Wine Land is enjoying the many different wines made from many different grape varieties. A wine made from two or more different grapes is called a “blend,” while ...

Nine Sonoma County wine lovers gathered at a table in a Petaluma restaurant on a recent Thursday evening to pull corks on 16 different classic bottles of wine. Included in the lineup was a bottle from ...

Winemaker Chris Phelps lets his tongue decide when it's time to harvest merlot. Grapes popping with sweetness? Check. Velvety skin with a melt-in-your mouth texture? Get out the clippers. But this ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Once dismissed after the movie Sideways, Merlot is quietly regaining prestige as top producers from Napa to Bordeaux and Bolgheri ...

In 2004, a single line of movie dialogue did what no harvest failure or market crash could: it nearly killed an entire category. After Sideways, Merlot became shorthand for everything unsophisticated ...