“IF CUSTOMERS DON’T like the wine, I tell them they can always re-use the bottle for olive oil,” said Bill Brown, a sales associate at Gary’s Wines & Marketplace in Wayne, N.J., when I visited the ...

When in the Burgundy or Bordeaux regions of France, the bottles of wine from those particular regions have distinct shapes. The high-shouldered Bordeaux bottle (also called the Claret) communicates ...

Intimidated every time you look for a wine at a wine shop or in the grocery store? Over the centuries, major wine districts in France and Germany have developed unique bottles to help consumers ...

• Tall, slender. Wines from Germany’s Mosel and France’s Alsace. Green, brown, and blue glass historically marked regional differences. • Tall, curvy, often distinctive. Once exclusive for rosés from ...

The short answer is no. The different colour, shape and weight of a wine bottle is more about aesthetics and marketing. Bottles have been around a long time. Ceramic or clay amphorae stoppered with ...