X-ray scans were then conducted in order to determine the bottle’s contents — since the building’s owners asked that it not be opened. These tests revealed it was filled wit ...

The mystery of a 200-year-old bottle has been solved. It turns out, it wasn’t a vessel for booze, but a “witch bottle” filled ...

Placing the red hot metal around the neck, it makes a clean break leaving the cork intact. The method originated in Portugal as an alternative to opening very old bottles of wine with corks that ...

The historic Cork and Bottle pub has reopened in South End Green, near Hampstead Heath, and will soon return to its old name.

The bottle has an unusual rounded bottom and its cork was secured by wire which had rusted Engineers have found a bottle with a 132-year-old message deep inside the walls of a lighthouse in the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Which is the preferable wine-bottle stopper, cork or screwcap? On aesthetic grounds, cork must win every time.

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 ...