Once it is firmly stoppered in a bottle, wine should be protected from its greatest enemy, the oxygen in the air. If, however, the cork dries out and eventually shrinks so that it no longer acts as an ...
With some of these bottles, how the wine within them “tastes” (and aged wine represents its own acquired taste to begin with) may be beside the point. But without fail, when the auction hammer fell on ...
If you’re looking for a way to liven up a bland bottle of wine then a wine aerator could do the trick. By exposing your wine to oxygen, aerators help to open up the flavours, release the full ...
In pursuit of bringing you the best bottles and wine stories week after week, we sipped, swirled, and spat just shy of 7,000 wines this year, and while most were phenomenal (we’re pretty ...