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The 8 most common wine bottle types

There are so many regions and grape varieties in the world that for wine novices, they can't remember it in a short time.However, if you have a certain understanding of the bottle type, you don't need to read the wine label to make some preliminary judgments about the wine in the bottle.Today, We will teach you how to judge the type, origin, and even grape varieties of wine by bottle type.

1. Bordeaux bottle

Wine representatives: Chateau Lafite Rothschild, Libee

Bordeaux Bottle is one of the most common and popular bottle types nowadays, with a high and wide shoulder, making it easy to remove sediment during pouring. Typical wines bottled in this type of bottle include Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot. In addition to France, other Old World wine producing countries have also borrowed this type of bottle, such as Italy's Chianti wine. In addition, many New World producers also use this bottle shape to hold Bordeaux style wines.

2. Burgundy bottle

Wine representatives: Romanee Conti, Henri Jayer

Compared to Bordeaux bottles, the shoulders of Bourgogne Bottles are generally narrower and not as high, belonging to the slanted shoulder bottle, which is mostly green in color. This bottle shape can be used to hold both red and white wines, such as the common Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. With the gradual popularity of these two types of grapes and the increasing awareness of the Burgundy region, the Burgundy bottle has also become one of the most well-known bottle types in the world.

3. Rhone Valley Bottle

Wine representative: Chateauneuf du Pape

The Rhone Bottle is another well-known bottle type in France, which has some similarities to the Burgundy bottle, but the Rhone Bottle is more slender. Moreover, there are often shield shaped badges at the bottleneck, such as the classic Pope's Newcastle wine shown above.

4. Champagne bottle

Wine representative: Veuve Clicquot

As the name suggests, Champagne Bottle is a bottle designed specifically for champagne. This type of wine bottle is generally larger and stronger, and the bottom of the bottle is usually concave, and the bottle wall is thicker to withstand the enormous pressure inside the bottle. Of course, in addition to champagne, some other sparkling wine merchants also use champagne bottles to hold sparkling wine.

5. Alsace bottle/Moselle bottle

Wine representative: Alsace Riesling

The same bottle type is widely used in Alsace and Mosel production areas. This type of bottle looks tall and thin, usually with a light dark green color. The bottle body looks slender and lightweight, while the bottle type is narrower and higher. It can be used to hold dry or sweet wines, with common grape types including Riesling and Gewurztraminer.

6. Rhine bottle

Wine representative: Rhine Riesling

The Rhine Bottle and the Alsace Bottle are very similar, and they also look tall and thin. However, unlike it, the color of Rhine bottles is generally brown.

7. Strengthening wine bottles

Representative wines: Port, Sherry

Fortified Wine must be placed in a very solid bottle, and in addition, there are protruding parts at the neck of some vintage Porter bottles to allow the aged wine to settle in the bottle after decanting. However, both fortified wines may have different bottle types. According to the different sweetness of the fortified wine, its bottle shape is roughly shown in the figure:

8. Sweet wine bottle

Representative liquor type: Ice Wine

Late harvest sweet wine and ice wine are generally served in sweet wine bottles, with shorter and thinner bottle bodies, much slimmer than Alsace bottles. Therefore, its capacity is generally not large, mostly 375ml.

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