
All about the bottle
Did you know that the bottle holding your wine says a lot about the wine? The general rule is that the grape and the bottle shape go hand in hand, however it isn't a hard and fast rule. For instance a merlot from anywhere is typically in a high shouldered Bordeaux bottle, and a riesling is in a skinny flute. Wine bottles are made by heating silica sand soda ash and limestone. Often recycled bottles are used, these are first crushed and the recreated into bottles. The color of