Cabernet Sauvignon grapes on the vine in Bordeaux, copyright BKWine Photography BKWine Photography It is planted on a total of 840,000 acres in the world, just over 5% of the world’s vineyard ...

A new sequencing technology, combined with a new computer algorithm that can yield detailed information about complex genomes of various organisms, has been used to produce a high-quality draft genome ...

Still, blending with other grapes comes with risks. For a U.S. wine to be labeled cabernet, a bottle must contain 75% cabernet grapes or more. Any less, and it's considered a red blend.

More than 10,000 wine grape varieties are grown in the world today, but in Australia 94 per cent of the grapes crushed come from just 20 varieties. Shiraz and cabernet sauvignon make up more than ...