Wine

Every Wine Bottle Has This Feature But No One Knows the Real Reason Why
Bottoms up. Wait, what’s that indent?

How to Balance Drinking and Working Out
Here's how to maintain a well-structured workout schedule, but also have a good time now and then.

The Best Wine Glasses for All Occasions
From universal to varietal-specific and hand-blown works of art to durable stemless vessels, you'll find the perfect wine glass here.

Think You Don’t Have Space in Your Kitchen for a Wine Cooler? Think Again
Dometic’s new DrawBar wine cooler chills five bottles in a standard-sized kitchen drawer.
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The Best Canned Wines to Get Buzzed on the Go
Your fridges, coolers and backpacks will thank you.


The Best Wines to Drink on Valentine’s Day, According to Experts
When it comes to picking out a wine for dinner, you’ll want something that encourages conversation, not contemplation.
By Jack Seemer

A New Bourbon Whiskey Named After a Golf Course Is One of the Best Things I Drank Last Month
A mountain of booze passes through the Gear Patrol office every month.
By Gear Patrol

5 Wines That Just Get Better With Time, According to a Master Somm
Forget checks and fancy cookware.
By Emily Singer

Buy Better Wine With This Sommelier-Approved Algorithm
Master Sommelier-approved wines, minus the abstract flavor descriptors.
By Emily Singer

Everything You Wanted to Know about the Effects of Oak Aging on Wine
Think you hate oaked Chardonnay? Or love the toasty notes that oak imparts?
By Lauren Friel

How Climate Affects Wine Grapes
Growing Pinot Noir in Napa Valley is like growing apples in Puerto Rico.
By Lauren Friel

The 10 Best Wineries of New Zealand
New Zealand’s 11 wine regions are growing in popularity; wine is now the country’s sixth-largest export.
By Chris Wright

Talking Wine with New Zealand’s Only Master Sommelier
Cameron Douglas is a Kiwi who knows good wine.

To Understand Wine, Start with the Grape
How does wine get its color, texture, sugar, acid and — uh — other things?
By Lauren Friel

The Best Sparkling Wine Under $30
Here are ten of the best bottles of bubbly on the market.
By Lauren Friel

The Best Boxed Wines of 2014
We conducted a blind tasting of 16 of the best available boxed wine (8 white, 8 red). A few tasted like our worst box wine memories of yore: fermented juice boxes gone bad.

New York’s Finger Lakes Wine Finds Its Way
At long last, New York’s Finger Lakes wine region is gaining recognition, both nationally and abroad.
By Nick Milanes

Wine Preservation’s Silver Bullet
Through crafty engineering, some physics, and one medically precise needle, the Coravin 1000 uncorks a world of wine possibilities (without pulling the cork).