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The Weinflasche is most usual, transport and camp container for the wine sales to the final consumer. Bottles for wine are manufactured in many sizes and forms. The most usual size seizes 0.75 litres wine. This size is since 1977 European Union standard. Before it most bottles in sizes between 0,7 and 0,8 were manufactured. In the USA and in Switzerland these 0.75 litres standard size until today is not used.
The sizes begin with 0,020 litres (or 20 cubic centimeters) and go up to the Adelaide size with 98,5 litres, which were produced into the 1950er years in England for Sherry.
Usually a Weinflasche with a cork is locked, for a cylindrical outdone piece of crust of the cork oak. Over it a cap from thin lead, aluminum or plastic is to cause a seal function: with the cap it is to be prevented that a Weinflasche is unnoticed opened and locked again. Due to the rising demand for nature corks and the high price resulting from it for locking the bottles frequently also corks from Presskork or plastic are used. Besides there are still the so-called "nut runners", screw-type caps usually made of metal, the crown corks and since 2004 a glass catch with the designation Vino locomotive.
The oldest well-known still drinkable bottle wine of the earth should be the Apostelwein, which is stored in of Bremen the advice cellar in a certain quantity and sold occasionally: its original origin is to date from 1726.
The most expensive Weinflasche is a bottle Lafite from that 18. Century its, with a personal Zueignung for the American president Thomas Jefferson. A wealthy collecting tank is some years ago to have paid for this bottle more than 180,000 US Dollar, in order to complete a reproduction of the work room of Jefferson for a museum.
The most common From is today the Bordeaux bottle (in the picture completely left). This is a straight bottle also easily rounded shoulder. With wines from overseas it will provide still gladly with an unloading collar. Most forms existing beside it developed traditionally. Admits is in Portugal and for Franconia wine used Bocksbeutel, flat Flasche.Auch approximated in the kind to a canteen frequently is Burgunderfla (in the fig. 2. from right), very broad Schlegelfla, which is to reflect the softness of the wines from Burgund. World-wide this bottle for wines from the Burgunderreben is used. Schlegelfla in all forms, of the slim "flutes" for German Rieslinge (in the fig. 3. from right) of the Mosel (in green) or the Rhine (in brown) as well as other Rieslinge world-wide over the somewhat broader forms for Rhoneweine (2. from left) and their Rebsorten, are world-wide into use-deviating bottle forms (so-called designer bottles - like e.g. 3. from left) is likewise used to usually signal in order something "special".
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