But which is actually better: bottles under cork, or bottles under screw cap? Business Insider recently spoke with James Harbertson, a Washington State University professor of enology - that's the ...

Using a lighter (or a blowtorch on the lowest setting, if you somehow have one on hand but not a wine opener), apply heat to ...

The right wine openers and corkscrews makes it easy to open a bottle cleanly, ensuring no cork pieces end up in your glass. Many sommelier-recommended openers are also surprisingly affordable.

Placing the red hot metal around the neck, it makes a clean break leaving the cork intact. The method originated in Portugal as an alternative to opening very old bottles of wine with corks that ...

Popping bubbly to ring in 2024 may be more dangerous than partiers think, as an international team of ophthalmology experts spread awareness of cork-induced eye injuries ahead of the holiday ...

When we think of cork, we might simply think of wine bottle stoppers. But the material, which has been used for thousands of years in various applications, is finding contemporary expression in a new ...

It’s been more than 20 years since wineries around the world stopped using corks to seal their bottles due to quality concerns, but there’s still a stigma attached to non-traditional closures.