Sonoma-Cutrer winemaker Cara Morrison recently joined Oliver’s chef Mark Kowalkowski to talk wine, food and perfect pairings ...

The scientists proceeded to apply a nontoxic sunflower extract solution to a batch of blueberries, after which they dried those berries and then injected them with Botrytis cinerea spores.

In terms of dandelions, the best time to control them is when they are in the puff ball or shoe fairy stage. (Shoe fairies are the name my grandson gave them years ago while walking through the yard, ...

“Noble rot” is just a nickname for Botrytis cinerea, a humidity-loving fruit fungus that causes grapes to shrivel and dehydrate, concentrating flavors. It sounds ugly (and grapes with botrytis ...

Wines made from these berries have a rich, complex, honeyed character and are often high in residual sugar. Botrytis contributes the unique, concentrated flavors in such wines as BA and TBA Rieslings ...

For hundreds of years, the fungus Botrytis cinerea has been key to making the world’s finest dessert wines. Now UC Davis researchers working with Dolce Winery in the Napa Valley show how the fungus ...