Wine Bottle shapes

Bottle shape and color are often tradition and over the centuries developed. The differences result mainly from the fact that we wanted to stand out from other regions themselves. But they are also an expression of beauty and grace and let the rough often close to their contents.

For red wine, there are two basic forms: the Burgundy bottle with flat, sloping shoulders and the Bordeaux bottle with high shoulders. For example, use all white wine German wine except from these two basic forms nor the so-called “Schlegel.”


The glass and floor thickness of a wine bottle by the way has no effect on the quality of the wine, nor the color of the glass. By contrast, the size of the bottle affect the maturation of the wine. In small bottles up to 0.5 liters of wine is aging faster. This is due to the unfavorable ratio of oxygen and wine volume. Favorable to large ones in sweet and

sweet wines: the penetrating oxygen distributed in proportion to rates sufficient quantity of wine.

The bottle is not only for preservation, storage and transportation of wine. You can trademark a specific wine or region to be.

Here is a list of some major bottle shapes:

Champagne bottle:
Classical bottle for all sparkling wines. The cavity in the soil is explained by the way, the type of storage. The bottles were for the Remuage in Rüttelkörben placed over each other, so that the head of the lower bottle into the bottom of the bottle top fits. This place was saved.

Club-bottle:
Folkloric form of Provence wines

Bocksbeutel:
For Franken wines, some wines from Baden and Portugal Mateus Rosé (0.35 and 0.75 l). It is in your pocket and the bag Schopp Bock (0.25 l). According WAHRIG form is the Bocksbeutel a flattened bulbous bottle for Franken wines, that the scrotum will be modeled after a goat.

Burgundy bottle:
Bulbous shape of wines from red and white Burgundies. Also, red wines from the Beaujolais wine and other areas are filled in her.

Bordeaux bottle:
Classic red wines for almost all origin. Bordeaux bottles are available in various sizes. Many French wines are available in magnums. The wine stays in it longer shelf life.

Port wine bottle:
Squat bottle, the other fortified wines are also typical

Schlegel bottle:
Elegant bottle with more or less long neck, for example, traditionally the Rhine and Moselle wines are used.