NAPA (AP) – Things got fuzzy in the Dolce vineyard this harvest. The mold known as botrytis sneaked in with early rains, and once-pale green semillon grapes shriveled into purple, furry blobs. The ...

Also known as botrytis cinerea, noble rot is a specific fungus that affects grapes late in the growing season while still on the vine. Climatic conditions have to be at a certain moisture level in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Despite their bad reputation, mold, yeast, and fungus are responsible for some of the tastiest things in our lives, such as blue ...

On its surface, Dogfish Head’s Noble Rot is kind of off-putting. It’s a Saison-style ale brewed with fungus-infected viognier grapes. The label features a creepy nobleman and a decayed Dogfish Head ...

If you like dessert wines, 2006 is shaping up as an amazing year in California, thanks to a bumper crop of botrytis fungus that is currently foremost in many winemakers' minds. Botrytis is called ...

A combination of AI and photography is helping wine makers keep their grapes free of disease. Botrytis cinerea is a fungus—also known as grey rot—which has spores that pierce and infect wine grapes, ...