Domaine Carneros will release the 2004 Ella Fitzgerald Brut Rosé at a special event at the winery May 16  “Ella” will be served along with other Domaine Carneros wines while the “Black Olive Jazz” quartet performs a repertoire of Ella Fitzgerald songs.

Bill Tristant tells his visitor to take a good healthy dose of wine, let it sit in his mouth for a while and, after spitting it out into a decanter, continue to enjoy it. “If we don’t say anything, we would taste it for a long time,” he said.  

At the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone, in the wine classes alone, Crystal Collins, the wine studies program coordinator, estimates they collect up to 900 corks a day from the bottles they open.

April was a cruel month for California winemakers, bringing a series of unusually late frosts to vineyards baring the tender, green shoots of spring.

JUMILLA, Spain -- Global warming may be the latest threat to the wine industry, but a clutch of producers in one of Spain’s hardest-hit regions say they’ve found a way to survive and even profit from it.

Americans like Australian wine, especially its lower-priced offerings.