bottles
It is amazingly quaint that a product with the
status of wine is shipped and served in heavy, fragile bottles that have seen
little change for two-hundred and fifty years. But change is on the wind, with
the growing concern over corks and the appearance of synthetic cork and twist
caps. Today, very high quality wine is sold with a screw cap closure as some
wine makers fear their labors will be spoiled by a faulty cork Sale
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one of the few remaining traditions that links us directly to the life of three
centuries ago.
As a feature of our modern world wine is
securely linked to tradition and the surest indication of that is in your hands
every time you purchase or serve it; the bottle and the cork. For most of its
history wine was very different from the beverage we enjoy today largely
because of the struggle to keep it from spoiling. To purchase wine, individuals
went to a merchant with containers of their own to have a portion drawn from
ceramic amphorae or large oak barrels. It was not until the 1700′s, with the
mass production of glass bottles and the reintroduction of cork as a stopper
that wine could be reliably protected from the ravages of oxygen.
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Early glass bottles were short and fat with
conical necks. By the 1720′s bottles were taller and more cylindrical and could
be stored on their side. But, it was illegal to sell wine by the bottle in Britain
Mass produced, molded bottles became the norm
by the mid 1800′s and three basic shapes, the Burgundy ,
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bottles to withstand the internal pressure of the bubbles.
The glass bottle and the nearly air tight seal
of cork revolutionized wine. For the first time flavors could be protected for
many years and the idea that wine could mature for a decade or more and reveal
previously unrealized character greatly enhanced, no doubt, its aristocratic
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and corks.
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