Before Northern California became known as Cab country, it was all about Mission. This resilient, versatile red grape was planted across the state prior to the 1850s, and when winemaking brothers ...

“All gone,” the Mexican winemaker says, gesturing at a table of empty bottles at a natural-wine fair at City Market Social House, a glossy warehouse space just south of skid row on San Pedro Street.

He won’t say how he got it, but Steve “Kim” Moreno says he has a cutting from one of the original Mission vines that Father Junípero Serra brought up with him from Mexico in 1769. “I’m expecting our ...

Long before Napa made California wine famous, the roots of California wine were planted—literally—by Franciscan missionaries along the California Mission Trail. ByLayne Randolph, Contributor. Forbes ...

Long-time amateur winemakers often talk about the mission grape. You don’t usually see it in a commercial wine shop or on a restaurant list, though. Mission was and still is a grape available to home ...