When a voracious pest triggered a quarantine this week across much of Napa Valley — the nation's premier grape-growing region — it threatened more than the grapes themselves. The spraying of pesticides needed to control the European grapevine moth threatens to undo decades of low-impact farming practices that have elevated ...

A new classification of Bordeaux wines outperformed the region as a whole in 2009 sales, a wine producers' association said on Wednesday. The so-called "appellations" of Blaye, Cadillac, Castillon and Francs decided in 2004 to join together under the Cotes de Bordeaux label to improve performance in the international market by playing on the famous Bordeaux name more clearly. In ...

Women who drink a couple of glasses of red wine, beer or spirits a day are better at keeping the pounds off than women who do not drink at all, according to a study published Monday. Researchers at Brigham and Women?s Hospital in Boston asked more than 19,000, normal-weight US women aged 39 or older how many alcoholic ...