Biocontrols benefit wine grape growers, but there is still room for improvement when it comes to beating vine mealybug pest.

thus limiting grapes’ susceptibility to heat damage. Winemaker Bertus van Zyl of Farm Collective said the early heat wave “set the trend for the season” and primed the vines to endure subseq ...

Grape breeders have been experimenting with crossing and hybridising vines for at least a couple ... and the even more disease-resistant Regent, dark-skinned hybrids developed in Germany in ...