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A bottle of wine is a bottle, usually glass, which is specially designed to contain wine. In general, it has a label with the wine content.

History – Bottle of Wine

The English diplomat Sir Kenelm Digby is considered the inventor of the modern wine bottle, characterized by a neck reinforced by a ring in the seventeenth century.

It is through their control of powerful new coal furnaces, which the British were the first in 1634 to manufacture glass bottles resistant. Cork, elastic and impermeable, ensure sealing the bottle and breathing wine. The reinforced neck allows the grower to push the cork off with mallet without breaking the neck of the bottle. Thus, the cork has become clogged ideal.

The inventor, Digby Knight, was first pirate, then spy, English writer and diplomat. Passion for science and of alchemy, he finally imagined in the 1630s the famous glass bottle and thick smoke.

Colors – Bottle of Wine

It can vary from a perfect translucent shades of green, yellow. The initial reason of color held no doubt some protection of wine against the light, but today the choice of the color of the glass is only related to objectives mercantiles. The color of the glass bottle is chosen to enhance color, shades and tints of wines.

Forms – Bottle of Wine

Bottle of Wines - Gaillac

The shape of the bottle information on the origin of the wine it contains. In France, there are as follows:

• the Bordeaux, created by the Interprofessional Council of Bordeaux wines, also used for wines of the Southwest
• Burgundian used for wines from Burgundy, which is also found in other regions:
  • the Jura and Clavelin for wines of the Jura and Savoie
  • with Muscadet and the Anjou to the wines of the Loire
  • the Rhone, the wines of Cotes du Rhone
• the Champagne for Champagne (though there are special like bottles of Dom Perignon)
• flute of Alsace, the appearance and elongated pointed used for wines of Alsace
• the Gaillac used for wines from Gaillac
• the flute to brace whose cylindrical part is tightened at the base, which is used for wines of Provence and Corsica
• the clavelin, rounded appearance, stocky, topped with a collar end is, in fact, exclusively reserved for yellow Jura wine and its capacity, derogating from the general rule is 62 cl.

In general, a bottle of wine is composed of several parts:

• the ring, which surrounds the upper part
• the pass, which corresponds to the tapered at the top
• shoulder, ie the part that connects the flared neck on tap
• the drum, which is the main part and the largest of the bottle
• The fund, which can be flat, piqué (convex) or semi-dive.