Karla Walsh is a Des Moines, Iowa-based lifestyle writer with more than 15 years of journalism experience. Visiting restaurants helped her fall in love with food while conquering an eating disorder, ...

If you can't read wine labels (yet), start with the shape of the bottle. Karla Walsh is a Des Moines, Iowa-based lifestyle writer with more than 15 years of journalism experience. Visiting restaurants ...

• Tall, slender. Wines from Germany’s Mosel and France’s Alsace. Green, brown, and blue glass historically marked regional differences. • Tall, curvy, often distinctive. Once exclusive for rosés from ...

This is a two-part column about wine bottle shapes, colors and other variations. The array of bottle designs has an intriguing history. The modern wine bottle was a journey of man made evolution. The ...