Ever seen where corks for wine bottles come from? Neither had plenty of attendees at a Cal Poly event Tuesday, until a team from Portugal hacked off a slab of cork from a tree at the San Luis Obispo ...

The closure on a wine bottle signals more than tradition or convenience. Cork and screw caps manage oxygen in different ways, which can shape freshness, reduce certain faults, and influence how a wine ...

If you’re into wine — and you’ve got some older bottles stored away — you might encounter those dreaded crumbly corks. It ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Casual drinkers look to this time of year as a celebration – holidays, family gatherings, New Year’s Eve. Buy a bottle or two of sparkling wine, pop the cork and toast. Not so fast.

On a spotless concrete floor, seven huge molding machines sit in a row, pressing out little nubs into pallet-sized cardboard boxes. Each box contains some 50,000 of these synthetic doodads, just wide ...

The cork wine stopper is synonymous with preservation – not only of the wine in the bottle, but of a way of life for cork farmers and the natural ecosystem of the forest. The process has been the same ...

No one likes to waste a great bottle of wine. But if you want to hang on to a bottle after opening it, you shouldn’t just shove the cork back into it. There are plenty of tips for keeping an opened ...

Find out which wines were spectacular as friends gather at Phil Masturzo's home for annual Open That Bottle Night.

Wine corks do more than seal bottles - they change consumer perception of the wine iteself. The holiday season is in full swing, and so are holiday get-togethers. What’s the go-to hostess gift? Or the ...