Albana is a white grape varietal made famous by the popular Italian wine Abana di Romagna. It is widely grown in Emilia-Romagna. Its main claim to fame is that medieval agricultural writer Petrus di Crescentis highlighted it in the 13th century…
A recently created method called “protein profiling” employs mass spectrometry to pinpoint the grape variety or types in unfined juice or wine. The protein that is produced in the grapes after veraison serves to distinguish varieties. These proteins are relatively stable in juice and wine, unlike DNA…
Prosecco is a white grape variety indigenous to the Veneto area of northeastern Italy. The DOC for this wine is Prosecco di Conegliano-Valdobbiadene, and it is made west of the township of Conegliano along the Piave river…
Malagousia, or melaouzia, as some people in Greek villages call it, is a white grape variety native to Greece. Malagousia is widely known as a grape that has been resurrected because, up until the 1970s, very few people knew about it and it was considered to be extinct…