FOREST GROVE, Ore. — Using cow pies and cow horns to make better wine might sound a little gross, but it's exactly what one Forest Grove vineyard is doing. In fact, it is an annual ritual at Montinore ...

LIVERMORE, Calif. (KGO) -- Page Mill winery is trying to take wine-making in the Livermore Valley to the next level with what some would call a bizarre new approach. It involves burying a cow horn ...

Does planting a cow horn full of fresh manure in a vineyard make a better wine than a winery using more conventional farming techniques? Kevin Morrisey won’t quite make that claim, but he does think ...

Cow horns filled with manure, sheep, bees, the phases of the moon — what could these things possibly have to do with wine? They’re all elements of biodynamic farming, a holistic approach to ...

About 20 farmers dug their hands deep into a 6-inch pool of ripe cow dung. Most wore gloves. They’d spent the last hour mixing and chopping the brown mound with shovels, adding air and distributing ...

It's not black magic! The secret to the new wine-making trend: A cow horn filled with cow manure mixture that is put into the ground for six months and is dug up when the planets are in alignment ...