In addition to different capacities, wine bottle shapes also vary widely. After hundreds of years of evolution, a bottle shape has become a representative of a wine producing area. People who understand the market can identify the producing area of fine wine by visually observing the bottle shape. Encyclopedia will list the following 8 common wine bottle shapes.
(1) Bordeaux bottle: The Bordeaux bottle has streamlined sides and a wide shoulder. It comes in four colors: dark brown, dark green, light green and colorless. The classic Bordeaux dry red is bottled in dark green, the dark brown is used for dry red from southern France and other producing areas, the light green is used for dry white, and the colorless and transparent is often used for sweet white wine. The Bordeaux bottle is also used by other wine producing areas around the world.
(2) Burgundy bottle: Burgundy bottle has narrow shoulders and a rounded shape. It gradually expands from the neck to the body of the bottle. The body of the bottle is green and can be used to hold both red and white wine. In the New World, this bottle is also widely used to hold Chardonnay and Pinot Noir wines.
This type of bottle is also used in Barolo, Italy, and the Loire Valley and Languedoc regions of France.
(3) Champagne bottle: The champagne bottle is specially designed for champagne. This type of bottle is larger and more solid, usually with a concave bottom and thicker walls to withstand the pressure of carbon dioxide. Some sparkling wine producers in the New World also use a bottle design similar to that of champagne.