White wine bottles

[Wild Duk]

What do most of you use for bottling your whites. I have been collecting bottles from friends, restaurants, ect. but most of them seems to be the dark green and brown bottles ( I guess most are drinking Reds). Might be easier when grabbing off the wine rack knowing which is which... Does it really matter???


I have collected a bunch of Green Burgundy style bottles that are lighter in color that I think most Pinot noir's are bottles in.....

 

[grapeman]

My personal preference is to bottle the whites in flint type bottles (clear). I can see how nice and clear they are and the light straw color makes them look noce against the label, etc. Just be sure to keep them in the dark most of the time. If you can get enough of them, the light brown ones are nice also.

 

[Tom]

If I don't have enough clear bottles I have no choice to use colored ones. Solved your question by using a WHITE shrink wraps over the cork .. colored ones for reds. Of course your label will say something about what's inside.

 

[NorthernWinos]

This might help you a bit with your choices....

http://www.cellarnotes.net/bottleshapes.html

http://www.thewinedoctor.com/advisory/buystorebottleshapes.shtml

http://www.macsliquors.com/macswineology4.htm

Chardonnay also comes in the olive green Burgundy style bottles [slope sides]....

We try to put the like-kind wine in the type of bottles that similar wines came in....but it's your choice.

Try to do a whole batch in the same style bottles.

Lately we have been putting some wine of each batch in a few odd-ball bottles that we would give as gifts to people who might not give the bottles back....

We also give away wine in bottles that don't fit in our wine racks.

Use what you have at the time of bottling....
It's your wine....enjoy every part of the winemaking procedure.

 

[vcasey]

Just use whatever bottles you have available. Soon you'll have a nice supply you can work with. For now relax, use what you have and start your next wine.
VPC