There is nothing worse than opening an expensive bottle of Pappy Van Winkle whiskey only to witness the cork crumble into the bottle. Whiskey aficionados love identifying the delicate flavors of ...

Wine corks are an imperfect, oftentimes frustrating, but necessary step of dealing with a good bottle of wine. By a "good bottle of wine," we mean everything from those $10 Aldi wines to the ...

Chilling last words of a 19-year-old Cork man who died on the RMS Titanic after it struck an iceberg, en route to New York. The chilling last words of 19-year-old Jeremiah Burke from Glanmire ...

While either of those options might work just fine, my suggestion is pretty simple: Just use a waiter’s corkscrew. First make sure the bottle is very chilled. Carbon dioxide is more soluble at lower ...

Even Burgundy’s Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, one of the most famous wines in the world, bottled its wines in batches until ...

The bottle must be made entirely of plastic, it must have no sharp points and it must be for a fizzy drink, so that the plastic is designed to hold pressure inside it. Making a hole through the cork ...

When we think of cork, we might simply think of wine bottle stoppers. But the material, which has been used for thousands of years in various applications, is finding contemporary expression in a new ...

A 31-year-old man who was drinking vodka and having banter with another man in Cork city centre slashed his throat with the ...