vintner

The Snake River Valley winemaking community is young, but vintners make up for their lack of years with ambition and energy.

In recent years winemakers have transplanted from California to apply their experience in the up-and-coming region — but there are also a lot of Idaho natives among the vintner ranks, including some on land handed down for generations.

Additionally, the government is doubling its support for setting up mutual funds for vintners.

Crack open the best 2020 wine books for rich history, international politics and a vintner’s lively memoirFrance was Spurrier’s first wine love, and his palate gravitated toward Italy later in life.

This is not your normal vintner-in-harmony-with-nature story.

Acclaimed vintner Francis Ford Coppola is hardly slapping his name on boxes of Franzia.

Curious to learn more about this weediest of wines, I recently spoke with a California vintner who makes it on the side.

U was an Usurer, a miserable elf; V was a Vintner, who drank all himself.

His companions were two merchants of Lyons, a vintner of Dijon, and a taciturn, soberly clad professor.

This town is full of vintners' places and every vintner has—or rather he did have—a lot of those big empty wine casks on hand.

Once, merely from a malignant whim, he staved all the wine in a vintner's cellar.

Much harm would be done if the charitable vintner had not water ready for the flames.