Wine containers have evolved for thousands of years. Let’s examine. Earthenware provided the earliest containers—amphora and kvevri are the most familiar. They still are in use today to make wine, ...

Wine containers have evolved for thousands of years. Let’s examine. Earthenware provided the earliest containers — amphora and kvevri are the most familiar. They still are in use today to make wine, ...

Before you can appreciate a wine you have to open it. In times past, that meant pulling a cork from a glass bottle. Not so much today. In broad terms, wine comes in four container-closure packages: ...

This question has long been pondered by beer drinkers: Why aren’t wine bottles redeemable containers? Is this a conspiracy by the wine industry to turn beer guzzlers into wine swillers one dime at a ...