At one time, Thompsons were the No. 1 table grape, raisin grape and wine grape in California. In a way, that very ubiquity became the Thompson’s downfall. After so long at the top of the heap, they ...

I’m on a quest to restore the Thompson seedless grape to the reputation it so richly deserves. Wish me luck. You may wonder what I’m going on about if all you’ve ever had are those hard green ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Picking up a bunch of grapes from the supermarket might not sound all that complicated when you're ...

FRESNO — San Joaquin Valley grape growers are in the midst of a rare price war this season. Wineries, thirsty for white grapes, are paying the most ever for Thompson grapes. And raisin packers, ...

Overview of the T2T and gap-free genome of Thompson Seedless. The Circos plot depicts gene features at 500-kb intervals across the 19 chromosomes of Thompson Seedless. From the outer to the inner ring ...

I received an email inquiring about pruning practices and immediately began to ruminate on the possibility of a connection between the act of pruning and the fruit known as a prune. It turns out there ...

Sitting on his barn deck overlooking the 18 acres of vines that went into the cold glass of Sauvignon Blanc in his hand, Mike Thompson turned to his vineyard manager and said, "I could sit up here ...

Congressman Mike Thompson and his wife, Jan, are both residents of St. Helena, who own a 33-acre vineyard in Finley, in Lake County. During the recent Taste of the Napa Valley, the congressman said ...