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An empty (Bordeaux-style) wine bottle with a punt at its base. A punt, also known as a kick-up, is the dimple at the bottom of a wine bottle. There is no consensus explanation for its purpose. The more commonly cited explanations include: [2] It is a historical remnant from the era when wine bottles were free blown using a blowpipe and pontil.
The Speyer wine bottle (or Römerwein[1]) is a sealed vessel, presumed to contain liquid wine, and so named because it was unearthed from a Roman tomb found near Speyer, Germany. It contained the world's oldest known liquid wine (dated to about AD 325), until 2024, when a 1st century AD urn within a Roman tomb - found in 2019 in the southern ...
Screw cap (wine) A screw cap is a metal, normally aluminium, cap that screws onto threads on the neck of a wine bottle, generally with a metal skirt down the neck to resemble the traditional wine capsule ("foil"). A layer of plastic (often PVDC), cork, rubber, or other soft material is used as wad to make a seal with the mouth of the bottle.
Bottle of Wine. " Bottle of Wine " is a song written and recorded by Tom Paxton, which was also a hit for the band The Fireballs, whose version reached #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1968 [1] and #5 in Canada. [2] It also reached #3 in South Africa. [3] The song, which included only two of Paxton's four verses, with the chorus repeated ...
Sabrage. Sabrage / səˈbrɑːʒ / is a technique for opening a champagne bottle with a saber, [1] used for ceremonial occasions. The wielder slides the saber along the body seam of the bottle to the lip to break the top of the neck away, leaving the neck of the bottle open and ready to pour. The force of the blade hitting the lip breaks the ...
Wine is a complex mixture of chemical compounds in a hydro-alcoholic solution with a pH around 4. The chemistry of wine and its resultant quality depend on achieving a balance between three aspects of the berries used to make the wine: their sugar content, acidity and the presence of secondary compounds. Vines store sugar in grapes through ...
6,834 ha (16,890 acres) Size of planted vineyards. 4,820 ha (11,900 acres) Varietals produced. Chardonnay (Beaunois) Chablis (pronounced [ʃabli]) is the northernmost Appellation d'origine contrôlée of the Burgundy region in France. Its cool climate produces wines with more acidity and less fruitiness than Chardonnay vines grown in warmer ones.