I was given close to 200 1l wine bottles that were used once before. I thoughts that most bottles in North America has standard bottle opening size. Yesterday I tried to cork one of these bottles and then I realized that my bottles have smaller opening than other regular bottles. I measured opening and regular bottle has 19mm (millimeters) opening and my bottles have 17mm opening. I used #8 cork and I could not fit cork into bottle opening - there was always cork end sticking out.
I attached picture with bottles - green is my non standard bottle and dark bottle is a standard bottle.
Question - are these non standard bottles still good for wine? Any idea what cork size should I use for them. Should I try to find these non standard corks (all my wine kits come with #8 corks), or should I just take these non standard bottles to recycle and should I buy standard wine bottles?
TIA!
![WineBottle1.jpg WineBottle1.jpg](https://cdn2.imagearchive.com/winemakingtalk/data/attachments/21/21817-044943a82331c4f3c219418e8d3f84c0.jpg)
![WineBottle2.jpg WineBottle2.jpg](https://cdn2.imagearchive.com/winemakingtalk/data/attachments/21/21818-1fc5c26d9273681a0ffa74fafdd59188.jpg)
I attached picture with bottles - green is my non standard bottle and dark bottle is a standard bottle.
Question - are these non standard bottles still good for wine? Any idea what cork size should I use for them. Should I try to find these non standard corks (all my wine kits come with #8 corks), or should I just take these non standard bottles to recycle and should I buy standard wine bottles?
TIA!
![WineBottle1.jpg WineBottle1.jpg](https://cdn2.imagearchive.com/winemakingtalk/data/attachments/21/21817-044943a82331c4f3c219418e8d3f84c0.jpg)
![WineBottle2.jpg WineBottle2.jpg](https://cdn2.imagearchive.com/winemakingtalk/data/attachments/21/21818-1fc5c26d9273681a0ffa74fafdd59188.jpg)