That bottle is Armand de Brignac’s Ace of Spades champagne — with the 30-liter Midas selling for upward of $100,000 per ...

A typical full bottle of wine weighs about 3 pounds, but it can surpass 4 pounds. This often is a marketing ploy to lead you to believe a heavy bottle is better and, thus, should be more expensive.

Learn about the different shapes of wine bottles, from Bordeaux to Burgundy to Alsace to Champagne. Learn what bottle shape says about the wine inside, and how the glass impacts the wine.

Wine bottles come in various shapes, sizes, weights, and colors of glass. A quick tour. Bottle shapes • Tall, slender. Wines from Germany’s Mosel and France’s Alsace.

Alsace wine, hock bottle. (Photo: Alen Kadar/Shutter stock) The Hock bottle is tall and slender with a delicate neck. These are some of the more colorful bottles. They can be brown, green, clear ...

A typical full bottle of wine weighs about 3 pounds, but it can surpass 4 pounds. This often is a marketing ploy to lead you to believe a heavy bottle is better and, thus, should be more expensive.

Learn about commonly used wine bottle sizes. Our guide to wine bottles explores the range of sizes, how the size of a bottle impacts the taste of a wine, and how a wine will age.

When in the Burgundy or Bordeaux regions of France, the bottles of wine from those particular regions have distinct shapes. The high-shouldered Bordeaux bottle (also called the Claret ...

The glass wine bottle certainly was quite an invention: less porous, more cleanable and, compared to the ceramic amphora, the glass bottle was somewhat easier to handle. As good an idea as it was ...