Finger Lakes Community College student Alexis Ecker is the winner of the college's annual wine label competition. Ecker is ...

Wine scores or ratings were first used by American wine critic Robert M Parker jnr in the 1980s. Before that, wine writers used phrases such as “good” or “very good” or lengthy tasting notes.

The result is that French wine labels, which are ostensibly meant to communicate to consumers what’s inside the bottle, have become a jumble of often confusing terms. The best way to buy wine ...

The label will be used on bottles of wine the viticulture students produced this fall and will bottle next spring as part of their educational program. Ecker’s brand design Astrae Via ...