Collectible Wine Bottles (1900-Now)

All You Need to Know About Collectible Wine Bottles From 1900-Now

You may collect vintage wines or you may collect vintage wine bottles. Collecting old wine bottles is a way to appreciate fine vintners and their unique creations over the years without needing to concern yourself with issues of storage and freshness. Whether you seek the bottle of a specific vintage or want to build your own wine bottle collection, you need to know how to choose the right vintage wine bottles to collect on eBay.

Features and characteristics of vintage wine bottles

All wine bottles have a specific shape, size, color, foil and netting, and punt, not to mention the logo, text, and artwork they depict. Any size bottle other than the standard 0.75 liters or 0.20 gallons would be considered non-standard and includes piccolo, quarter, chopine, demi, tenth, clavelin, fifth, magnum, and imperial wine bottles, among others. Wine bottle shapes are often distinct to the type of wine, be it a straight and tall sherry or port bottle or a flask with a round bottom like vintage Chianti wine bottles. Likewise, different colors of wine bottles are typically associated with different types of wines, like dark green bottles for burgundy wines and amber bottles for Rhine wines. There is no rhyme or reason to whether a wine bottle includes a punt, or dimple, in the base, and different wines are sealed differently, with a foil sleeve or sealing wax. You could build a vintage wine bottle collection based on the appearance of the bottles every bit as much as on the wines those bottles once contained.

How to choose collectible wine bottles

One way to build a wine bottle collection is by collecting vintage wine bottles of a specific region, year, or types, such as collecting only vintage Italian wine bottles, ceramic port bottles, or wine bottles corked between 1900 and the present day.

What notable collectable wine bottles are available?

Old wine bottles value differently for different collectors, though some antique wine bottles have objective value to every collector due to their rarity and the demand for them, such as with the following:

• 1987 Giant Chianti "Fish Eating Fish" bottle, 45 inches tall
• Demijohn green glass wine bottle in 18-inch tall wicker basket
• Handmade half-gallon Charles Fournier electric glass lamp wine bottle
• Green glass Viresa 20 wine bottle
• 1986 Petrus Pomerol 750 ml Gran Vin wine bottle
• Möet et Chandon 9-liter champagne bottle in wood box