All posts in January 2025

Here in the Wine Corner, we like to think we know a thing or two about wine and do our best to pass along what we’ve learned to those who may not be quite so far advanced in their wine journey as we. But we would be the first to admit that there are those…

Why have wine bottles assumed the shapes we see today? As you might guess, it was largely a practical matter, a compromise between ease of manufacture (and thus cost) and the work they were expected to do. The simplest form for early glass blowers to achieve (glass was not widely in use for wine storage…

Next time you’re in a restaurant where the wine list is taken seriously, eavesdrop on what the sommelier has to say as she moves from table to table. The word you’ll hear over and over is “minerality’’ — or one of its numerous more specific equivalents: granite, limestone, tufa, slate, shale, schist. It’s as if…