Alcohol, especially wine, can become complicated if you want to understand it well. Knowing which wine goes well with what and how to pick the right kind can be difficult. Even though I can easily ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." If you’ve ever found yourself in a wine shop or grocery store aisle staring blankly at a shelf of various ...

There is a (sometimes frustrating) inconsistency to how wine is labeled, making it a challenge to read a wine label and decipher what’s in the bottle. It may seem like you need a secret decoder ring ...

When you reach for that bottle of wine this Valentine’s Day, do you know how healthy it is? Many people have a too-rosy view of the beverage and are surprised when confronted with the facts about it ...

A wine label from the 1950s in the Maynard Amerine collection at UC Davis (courtesy UC Davis University Library) More than 5,000 wine labels at the University of California, Davis, chronicle the ...

A 2024 study (Ruiying et al.) investigates whether subtle “gender cues” on wine labels (i.e., feminine vs. masculine visual or textual cues) affect how women perceive and respond to a wine. Do ...

Before You Board, You Pour. Travel doesn’t always begin at an airport. Sometimes it begins under supermarket lighting, somewhere between the pasta aisle and the olive oil — when your hand hovers over ...