Are they trying to shortchange you some milliliters of vino? Most likely no. But the real reason isn’t entirely clear.

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Aged 1,693 years, its contents are probably still safe to drink.

Aged 1,693 years, its contents are probably still safe to drink.

The sea imbues the town of St-Malo with what locals describe as ‘a salty side’ that’s not only present in its culture and regional dishes, but also its wine.

Governments should consider advising people to abstain entirely, say authors

The Japanese nuclear disaster bathed north America in a radioactive cloud. Now pharmacologists have found the telltale signature in California wine made at the time.

The long read: ‘Natural wine’ advocates say everything about the modern industry is ethically, ecologically and aesthetically wrong – and have triggered the biggest split in the wine world for a generation

Researchers are changing how they study the risks of alcohol — and it’s making drinking look worse.

In the wine industry, when your product outweighs your demand, there are few ways to legally dispose of it. By John Capone.

Thieves stole wine reportedly worth more than €250,000 (£230,000) after burrowing into a private cellar from the catacombs 20 metres below Paris. Police say more than 300 bottles of vintage wine were carried out through the underground network, which comprises more than 150 miles (250km) of tunnels running beneath the city.

Researchers have discovered traces of what could be the world’s oldest wine at the bottom of terracotta jars in a cave in Sicily, showing that the fermented drink was being made and consumed in Italy more than 6,000 years ago. Previously scientists had believed winemaking developed in Italy around 1200 BC, but the find by a team from the University of South Florida pushes that date back by at least three millennia.

Residue in terracotta jars suggests drink was being made and consumed on the island in the fourth millennium BC

Price labels influence our liking of wine: The same wine tastes better to participants when it is labeled with a higher price tag. Scientists from the INSEAD Business School and the University of Bonn have discovered that the decision-making and motivation center in the brain plays a pivotal role in such price biases. The medial prefrontal cortex and the ventral striatum are particularly involved in this. The results have now been published in the journal Scientific Reports.

You need wine which makes this health food.

Are wine connoisseurs scientists or charlatans? Dan Rosenheck experiments with the Oxford and Cambridge wine-tasting teams

A lot of enjoyment comes from biology, chemistry and psychology, as well as the kinds of molecules that travel from the glass into your body.

Wine authenticator Maureen Downey shares a few tips on telling a faux Bordeaux or a sham champagne from the genuine article. By Bernice Chan.

In a country in which wine making is still predominantly a white male profession, South Africa’s first black woman winemaker, Ntsiki Biyela, is a pioneer.