On a misty morning in October, winemaker Vincent Bolenor gathers his team among rows of vines heavy with grapes. They’ll spend the next day plucking the fruit from carefully cultivated ...

She did. In April 1939, Steinbeck published “The Grapes of Wrath,” drawing liberally from those notes. The book sold hundreds of thousands of copies in the first few months, and would go on to ...

After his two previous starts to the novel in late May 1938, Steinbeck began rapidly writing what would become the iconic book about the Dust Bowl: "The Grapes of Wrath." He wrote it fast ...

One task, though, seems stubbornly resistant to being ceded to robots: picking grapes. Like all soft fruit, grapes have a narrow window of ripeness, and are prone to being bruised or crushed if ...

SUMMARY Belongs on List? Yes No Tuscany's world-renowned Chianti classico draws grape-seekers in droves. But another major draw is the destination's verdant countryside, with its picturesque ...

Before Walmart became Arkansas’s biggest export, there was Grapette, the punchy neon purple soda with a unique grape flavor that conquered America and beyond.

The threat of rain did little to dampen enthusiasm around Grapes of Rathmore, a culinary staging, held Sunday, October 27 in Mandeville and co-hosted by Débè-Ann Lange-Chen of Cutting Edge ...

Glenn Proctor, partner at wine and grape brokerage Ciatti Company in Novato ... which gave the vines extra moisture to draw on. “Up until the end, we didn’t have any noticeable heat spikes ...