Raise your hand if you've ever been dumbfounded by a European wine label. I know I have, and I'm surely not alone.

To give consumers more information about the wine they’re buying, some producers have started listing disgorgement dates on the back label. Disgorgement, or “dégorgement” in French ...

But many of us choose the wines we buy strictly by the label.Wine buyer Bill Abrahamson asked ... the bottle that will get a consumer to come back for more. The most successful trend, for a ...

But there’s a less talked-about trick that in-the-know drinkers use when buying global imported wine: The label on the back of the bottle sometimes tells you more than the one on the front.

On a New World wine label, the producer is often front and center. The producer on this example, Elk Cove Vineyards, is listed most prominently on both the front and back labels. A producer can be ...

On the front label of this wine it says Les Rouards, the name of the single vineyard or sélection parcellaire where the grapes for this wine were grown. The back label further explains that this ...

Q. What can you find out by carefully reading the label on a bottle of wine? A. Many people find wine labels impossible to understand. Yet the label can provide useful information as to how and ...