🍷 Wine bottle

A wine bottle is a glass container in which wine is sold and stored. The standard bottle holds 0.75 litres. Glass lets no smells through and hardly reacts with wine, so it suits long storage. Bottles are made of bottle glass, often dark: it protects the wine from light. The shape depends on the region. The Bordeaux bottle has straight shoulders, the Burgundy bottle sloping ones, and the Rhine bottle is tall and slim. In Franconia, Germany, the flat, rounded Bocksbeutel is used, and in Italy the straw-wrapped fiasco is well known. Sparkling wine takes thicker glass, because the pressure inside is high. Many bottles have a dent in the base, called the punt. The label gives information about the wine. Sizes vary from small to very large. The bottle can be replaced, for example by a can, but glass remains the main choice. A glass bottle is used for both wine and milk, so the topic links the two references.