Highlights from recent wine-related explorations: Lodi’s Bokisch Vineyards, celebrated for its frank and alluring wines based on grape varieties traditionally associated with Spain, has turned to a grape more closely associated with the South of France for its newest...

With more whimsey than strategy, two professional women from San Francisco buy a rickety 13-acre farm at Fiddletown in Amador County. They haven’t much experience at digging soil, but the farm includes a scattering of pomegranate, apricot, walnut, olive, peach and...

Sacramento native Adam Saake is a member in good standing of a seemingly shrinking community of California winemakers – people so smitten with the wine trade that they join it in hopes of making a statement and a living solely by their vision and grit. They don’t come...

Nine takeaways from last week’s Sonoma Harvest Fair commercial wine competition in Santa Rosa: The competition drew 964 entries from 126 brands, up slightly from last year. All entries must be made with grapes grown in Sonoma County. A glance at entries by varietal...

Last month, Dr. Anita Oberholster and colleagues at the University of California, Davis, were handed a check for $1,205,966 to continue their research into the impact of wildland smoke on wine grapes. With climate change, wildland fires in California have become more...

Nicole Salengo is in the midst of her 10th harvest as winemaker at Berryessa Gap Vineyards in Yolo County, where she has gained a reputation for wines of fidelity and verve. She is the eighth and final person in this series on women in wine in the Sacramento area....