By Tom Marquardt And Patrick Darr A few years back, we were commiserating with a winemaker about the heartbreak of aging an ...

Half-empty wine bottles with corks and stoppers - Susan B Sheldon/Shutterstock We've all experienced the frustration of trying to reseal an open bottle of wine. Perhaps the cork won't fit back in, you ...

Over the past few weeks, we’ve discussed the various stages of wine appreciation. From reading the label and selecting wine in the store; to opening it and assessing its color in the glass; to ...

Lab-ID, an Italian designer and manufacturer of RFID inlays and labels, has developed an RFID-enabled wine cork enabling winemakers to store detailed information about each bottle of wine, and to ...

Cork taint! It’s just fun to say. But when it comes to drinking wine, it is a less fun experience. When casual wine drinkers think of wine “going bad,” they often talk about it turning to vinegar. If ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Experienced independent writer with a background in the wine industry. In an article for Drinks Business, Patrick Schmitt points ...

You store wine bottles horizontally in order to keep the cork damp, thus preventing it from drying out and ruining the wine, right? Poppycock, according to Dr. Miguel Cabral, the director of research ...

Opening a bottle of wine is full of anticipation: Once you extract the cork from the bottle, you might pour a small taste of the wine to make sure it's not faulty before pouring for yourself and your ...

To most a cork is just an obstacle between them and their glass, yet it’s vital to keeping wine alive. TCA-tainted bottles are rarer than they were in the 1980s, but a few weeks ago we opened a pricey ...

The sommelier at the elegant restaurant deftly cuts the foil on the special bottle of wine she recommended, skillfully uses the double-hinged waiters corkscrew to extract the cork, and briskly removes ...