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Pounds of The Wine Bible ordered and mailed from our office this week by a Karen MacNeil & Co. staffer who weighs half that amount. Here’s a bit of other info from those of us who help Karen. She’s currently working on the 3rd edition, due out toward the end of 2022. The staffer who recently had to lug all those WBs to the USPS is considering a Workman’s Comp claim—or a few bottles of “hush” wine from Screaming Eagle. Good luck with that.

Corkscrews were first used for guns.

Answer: True.

In the fifteenth century, the progenitors of wine corkscrews were corkscrews used as gun cleaning tools. By the 18th century, wine corkscrews were expensive implements, owned by the upper classes and intended only for expensive wines since only expensive wines were bottled with corks driven flush with the top of the neck of the bottle. It wasn’t until well into the nineteenth century, with the growth of the middle class and the growing prevalence of bottled wine, that the corkscrew became a common tool among large numbers of the populace in wine drinking countries.

Are Women Better Wine Tasters Than Men?

Wouldn’t that be nice. Alas, there’s no scientific proof that women are categorically superior to men when it comes to wine tasting. According to Dr. Ann Noble, who, until her retirement, was one of the… Continue reading

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