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

Tue, April 18, 2017 at 8:16 PM UTC As long as wine has been packaged in glass bottles—since the 17th century, roughly—there have been tools designed for the safe removal of cork stoppers. Although ...

Mature, pricey wines are a treat to taste but stressful to open: Will the inevitably fragile corks crumble? At a recent 23-vintage retrospective of Bordeaux Château Troplong Mondot, Managing Director ...

If corks aged as well as the wine they protect, Mark Taylor never would have invented the Durand corkscrew (thedurand.com, $125). The Atlanta wine collector and retired real-estate developer ...