This just in! Some grands crus have recently vanished from a famous restaurant located in the heart of Paris, France: La Tour d’Argent. A discrete, not to mention spectacular wine heist has left the authorities without a lead. Could this be a plot for the third season of the coveted …
Does size matter? Of course size matters! To start, can you imagine a movie in which the role of a giant shark is played by a goldfish? Not the same, is it? Better yet, the movie King Kong played by Curious George? And what about the Grand Canyon? Calling it …
In 2014, I wrote an article about wine names and labels featuring animals. I remember spending countless hours on the internet only to find a few. Little did I know there are hundreds of wine bottles featuring an animal on the label. How do I know that? Meet wine bottle …
Since I started wine pondering, I wrote quite a few articles about wine bottle sizes and shapes. I just recently received various requests for more specific measurements. So I tooled myself with a tape measurer and a caliper, and I started measuring wine bottles from my own collection. Everything you want to …
A wifi wine bottle that is connected to the Internet? Why would anyone want that? Well, I supposed if you have just about every wine toy out there, you might as well add this one to your collection. A Boston startup, Kuvée, has created a wifi wine bottle with a …
Champagne’s effervescence cleanses the palate, it makes food more enjoyable, and more importantly, it is more effective than tequila when trying to close the deal with a date. Champagne is arguably one of the greatest inventions that happened to mankind. And, like most great things, Champagne was discovered by accident. …
Through the many years of winemaking, we’ve seen lots of various specialty wine bottles. From time to time, winemakers will purposely choose a new bottle shape to stand out from the crowd and get a better chance of being recognized and remembered by the consumer market. It’s a risky marketing …
If you look for the meaning of the word “punt” in the dictionary, you will most likely find 5 definitions: 1. verb – delay in answering or taking action; equivocate. 2. noun – a long, narrow, flat-bottomed boat, square at both ends and propelled with a long pole, used on …
The Wine Ponderer has already written about Wine Bottle Shapes And Sizes. But I wanted to address why the sizes of bottles matter. Have you ever walked into a restaurant or a wine store and seen the very large bottles of wine? What is up with that? How practical is …
Welcome to the most comprehensive wine bottle shapes article on the internet. All wine bottles are not created equal! Their physical shape differs greatly from one another based on the type of wine they carry. Some wine bottle shapes are long and thin, others are short and fat… but don’t …
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