Our glassware writer Dominique Pariso found the best wineglass overall, the Zalto handblown universal wineglass. She tested glasses herself and consulted sommeliers, too.
Canned wine lends itself to wines that may not benefit from the air exchange of a corked bottle. And the metal of the can is perfect for a quick chill.
Photo by Tom Arena Though bottle labels have existed since ancient Egypt, the advent of lithography in the late 1700s allowed mass-printed labels to rely more heavily on images to express a wine’s character or origin. Over the years, art has expanded the role of labels from purely informational to aspirational and even collectable, and they now convey more about a wine than language could alone. After all, wine, like art, is a sensory experience, and a bottle’s label “has to be beautiful,” says Elaina Leibee, wine director for Erewhon Market, a specialty grocery chain in California. Here, five label projects that demonstrate the ways art and wine can intertwine.