In this photo taken Wednesday, March, 21, 2012, winemaker TJ Evans draws a sample of white Pinot Noir from a concrete egg fermenter at the Domaine Carneros winery in Napa, Calif. Evans credits the six ...

Ancient people may have jump-started wine fermentation not with fresh grapes, but by soaking naturally sun-dried raisins.

Half French oak, half stainless steel, this egg-shaped fermenter is a new experiment for Rodney Strong Vineyards. Who hatched this new breed of egg-shaped fermenter? The 4-foot oblong fermentation ...

It's astonishing to realize how innovative our ancestors were in food and beverage production before modern science and ...

Fact: there are significant differences between the Wine Snob and the Wine Geek. Geeks are passionate about everything from soil composition to fermentation techniques; they care about wild yeast and ...

Learn how soaking raisins yields a natural fermentation mechanism, indicating they could have been used for ancient wine ...

NAPA, Calif. (AP) -- Do you like eggs with wine? How about wine IN eggs? Sounds a bit dicey, but it's been happening more lately as winemakers embrace concrete egg-shaped fermenters as a way to add ...