WHEN GAZING at a wall of wine at your favorite wine shop, you might begin to wonder why bottles come in different shapes and whether this is by design. Generally speaking, there are four types of ...

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 ...

The evolution of glass bottles has changed the way wine gets to consumers. Once it became easy to create glass bottles in large amounts, sizes and shapes became uniform for the sake of shipping. The ...

• 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 ...

Intimidated every time you look for a wine at a wine shop or in the grocery store? Over the centuries, major wine districts in France and Germany have developed unique bottles to help consumers ...

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 ...