It fills liter bottles in Vienna's garden taverns and sells by allocation from terraces above the river. Understanding how one variety manages both starts with the water running below it.

Icewine is among the most labor-intensive and weather-dependent wines on earth, a few concentrated drops of sweetness wrung from frozen grapes. Its history runs deep, so why has the world nearly stopped drinking it?

One of America's oldest and least appreciated wine cultures hides in plain sight, overshadowed by California yet quietly making some of the country's most distinctive bottles. From the glacial Finger Lakes to maritime Long Island, this is a region a warming world may be turning into a star.

The stopper is the least glamorous part of a wine bottle and among the most consequential. Its story runs from the bark of a Mediterranean oak to a strip of aluminum, and the argument is still going.

In one of the world's coolest wine countries, the rivers are not scenery. They are the reason the wine exists at all.

A small country holds one of wine's deepest benches, home to the world's oldest regulated vineyard and hundreds of grapes grown nowhere else. Port opened the door, but the whole house rewards a look inside.

A microscopic insect once brought the wine world to the edge of ruin. The way growers answered still lives in the roots of nearly every vine on earth.

Exploring the regional identities that make the Loire one of France’s most varied wine-producing areas.

From its ancient Eurasian origins to vineyards across six continents, Vitis vinifera defines much of what we understand as wine.