Lettie Teague

The style of music we listen to while having a glass of wine dramatically affects our opinion of how it tastes. Test subjects rated the change in taste by up to 60%. Researcher Adrian North of Heriot Watt University in Scotland, made the link between wine and song and he ...

1. Don’t drink Champagne, or for that matter, anything sparkling. It’s the most overpriced category on any already-inflated list, sometimes marked up as much as five times its wholesale cost.

2. Order half-bottles, not wines by the glass, the second most overpriced category. (The price of a glass is often ...