Considering that there are more than 20 types of wine bottles on the market, it can be difficult to fulfill a friend’s request that you pick up a double magnum bottle of wine on your way to their house for dinner. Wine bottles come in all shapes and sizes and are actually specifically designed not only for the volume they contain but for each particular type of wine. For instance, port wines are often bottled using a wine bottle with a bulbous neck. This is due to the residue that port wine leaves behind. The bulb in the neck allows the residue to be collected before it hits the glass.

Prior to 1979 the United States sold wine bottles that measured half gallons and full gallons. The metric system was used for all other nations and the U.S. adopted the metric system to keep the wine bottle sizes accurate and uniform. However, you can still get a fifth of wine, which indicates that the bottle holds one fifth of a gallon of wine.

The shape and size of many wine bottles have simply become traditional. The consumer often recognizes the wine by the type of bottle it is in, even if they don’t know the appropriate name of that wine bottle. This has become a marketing technique for wines that are similar to but not exactly like more popular wines. The boxed wine was crafted not only to attempt to replace the wine bottle, as colored glass is still colored glass after it has been sent to the recycling center. However, boxed wine did not produce the following that was expected and has been reserved for inexpensive wines. Wine bottles, which are nearly universal in shape, are still the trademark bottle of the simple pleasures that go hand in hand with a good glass of wine.

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