One hundred fifty years ago, the Great French Wine Blight nearly wiped out an industry that today produces some 40 billion bottles of wine a year. The only solution was a radical fusion of species ...

Levi Gadye over at io9 recently shared a fascinating exploration of just how “the Great French Wine Blight Changed Grapes Forever.” Here's the story: As the global wine industry picked up ...

American grapes weren’t done causing trouble on a world stage, though. The Great French Wine Blight There was another major reason why European grapes were so hard to grow in the U.S., aside ...

So how did it recently reemerge in Chile? In response to this post exploring the history of the Great French Wine blight, a discussion began about one of the more curious stories to emerge from it ...

And that’s where the story of the Great French Wine Blight has now earned a second telling. Its gradual spread and devastating effects illuminate the complex relationships between wine ...

Riley raced to the aid of shattered European winemakers during an agricultural tragedy that’s gone down in history as the Great French Wine Blight. Winemaking in France is rooted deep in the ...

Read on to read our ranking of 10 of the best French white wines to be found under the $20 price point. Select a few, or even better, build a case and try ‘em all. Anne Pichon and her late ...

It also doesn't help that most French wines begin with the word "Château" or "Domaine" and have rather similar, old-fashioned ...

The great French wine blight in the mid-19th Century wiped out as many as 40 percent of the ancient grape crops in France and devastated the wine industry there. Ironically it was a native ...

After tasting a plethora of wines, we finally landed on the 10 best French reds under $20. Note: The majority of the wines are available on a nationwide basis, or at minimum, via retailers who can ...

Raise a toast to an incredible 19th-century Missouri scientist when you pop that bottle of fine French bubbly on New Year’s Eve. His name is Charles Valentine Riley. He was an entomologist.