Scientists in Kyoto found that fresh grapes rarely host the yeast needed for wine fermentation, but raisins do. They soaked ...

It may sound like a miracle, but new research suggests that people in ancient times could have made wine simply by soaking ...

Ancient people may have jump-started wine fermentation not with fresh grapes, but by soaking naturally sun-dried raisins.

Researchers at Kyoto University have shown that naturally sun-dried raisins can seed fermentation and generate higher ethanol ...

Raisin “tea” doesn’t exactly look appetizing — waterlogged blobs bobbing in water. But bread leavened with the wild yeast that collects on the raisin skins and is extracted into the liquid is ...