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BURGUNDY STYLE What does it mean to talk about a wine's style?
This elegant, sloping-shouldered bottle can also contain either red or white wine. In both France and California, Pinot Noir and Chardonnay are the classic varietals bottled in this shape. Pinot Noir is usually found in green glass while Chardonnay may be found in either green or clear glass. In California, Chenin Blanc and Rhone varietals are also usually bottled in this shape.
The Bordeaux Bottle
This high-shouldered bottle may have derived its shape from the fact that older red Bordeaux varietals often have sediment settled at the bottom. When the wine is either decanted or poured into glasses, the shoulder of the bottle helps to trap sediment particles and prevent them from escaping with the good wine. All red Bordeaux wines are to be found in green glass, while all white Bordeaux varietals are to be found in clear glass (with a few exceptions in green), but both have the distinctive high shoulders. That means you will find either Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot or Cabernet Franc in the green glass and either Sauvignon Blanc or Semillon in the clear glass.
The Champagne Bottle
This large, thick-walled and tall-necked bottle has evolved into the ideal shape for storing sparkling wine under tremendous gas pressure. Thank you, Dom Perignon!
The Dessert Wine Bottle
Many dessert wines made in California are bottled in a long-necked bottle that resembles the bottles of Alsace and the Mosel and Rhine wines of Germany. Color plays an important part in distinguishing the wines, too, for all Rhine wines are bottled in brown glass, while all Mosels are bottled in green. In California, the glass may be green, brown or clear.
Wine Bottles
For all its beauty, fragility and artistic history, glass has always enjoyed an eminently practical status as well. Glass is a nearly inert material, which is to say that it has no chemical interaction with most materials that it might come into contact with (except, of course, for acids strong enough to etch it, like hydrofluoric acid). Glass can be safely sealed to prevent oxidation, evaporation of liquid or intrusion by any air-borne contaminants. It is thus ideally suited as a long-term storage container. And clear glass admirably displays its contents with brilliant clarity.
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Antique Green Wine Bottles
(12 per case) (Bordeaux Cork Finish)
(750ml)Case of 12 - 12 bottles per case
Corks not included Item # 2903 Price $ 10.95
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Green Wine Bottles
(12 per case)
(Bordeaux Cork Finish)
(750ml)Case of 12 - 12 bottles per case Corks not included
Item # 2900
Price $ 10.95
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COLBALT BLUE Wine Bottles
(12 per case)
(Bordeaux Cork Finish)
(750ml)Case of 12 - 12 bottles per case Corks not included
Item # 2911P
Price $ 16.95
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CLEAR (FLINT)
Wine Bottles
(12 per case)
(Bordeaux Cork Finish)
(750ml)Case of 12 - 12 bottles per case Corks not included
Item # 2902
Price $ 10.95
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WHITE FROASTED
Wine Bottles
(12 per case)
(Bordeaux Cork Finish)
(750ml)Case of 12 - 12 bottles per case Corks not included
Item # 2921P
Price $ 17.95
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GREEN BURGUNDY
Wine Bottles
(12 per case)
(Burgundy Cork Finish)
(750ml)Case of 12 - 12 bottles per case Corks not included
Item # 29110
Price $ 10.95
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CLEAR BURGUNDY
Wine Bottles
(12 per case)
(Burgundy Cork Finish)
(750ml)Case of 12 - 12 bottles per case Corks not included
Item # 2997
Price $ 10.95
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DEAD LEAF GREEN
BURGUNDY
Wine Bottles
(12 per case)
(Burgundy Cork Finish)
(750ml)Case of 12 - 12 bottles per case Corks not included
Item # 2905
Price $ 10.95
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750 ml. Champagne Bottle, Cork Finish
12 per case
Item # 2920
price $ 17.95
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