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Minerality in wine is real, but it is not rocks. Here is what you are actually tasting when a wine gets called flinty, stony, or wet-stone.

Swirl and sniff are not just ritual. Here is the actual science behind each step of tasting wine, and why most of what you taste is really smell.

Wine is grapes, yeast and a series of decisions. Here is what actually happens between vine and bottle, including where the yeast really comes from.

The closure barely changes the wine in the bottle. Here is what screw cap versus cork actually controls, and the history behind the assumption.

The Old World vs New World wine divide is not about age. It comes down to one legal requirement that decides what goes on the label.

It is not the color that separates red and white wine. Here is the one production choice that actually decides tannin, body, and food pairing.