Curious about composting? Learn why you may want to start adding leftover wine corks to your compost pile. There are several ...

The answer: Sounds like you detest those corks as much as I do. There is, indeed, a preferred corkscrew. … Synthetic corks arrived in a big way in the 1990s, though I'm happy to report they're ...

I don’t mind synthetic corks, but they can be really hard to get out of the bottle—they can be so stiff sometimes that I’ve actually broken a corkscrew on a couple of them. I’ve also heard anecdotal ...

After enjoying a bottle of fine wine don't be too quick to discard the cork, it turns out you can use wine corks for good in ...

When wine bottle screw caps first came to market ... aged 200 bottles of Sauvignon Blanc under natural cork, another 200 under synthetic cork, and finally 200 under screw cap.

you can see visual evidence of the wine on the cork itself. Is this possible with synthetic corks, or would you have to see the leakage under the foil covering? —David, Clifton, N.J. Dear David, Had ...