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- From: gordons@CS.ColoState.EDU (vahl scott gordon)
- Subject: dimple in bottles
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 22:40:15 GMT
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- josh@cqs.washington.edu (Josh Hayes) writes:
- >I have also heard that the reason sparkling wines have a more pronounced
- >dimple in the bottom of the bottle (THAT is true, at least) is because
- >the dimpled bottle is much more resistant to rupture from internal
- >pressure than, say, a flat-bottomed bottle. They are certainly more
- >sturdy than other wine bottles: when I worked in a small recycling
- >center during college we used to break the bottles by just striking
- >two together, then picking up another and repeating the process. A
- >champagne bottle survived this treatment basically forever....
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- Champagne bottles are made thicker because the contents are under pressure.
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- I have noticed that most wine bottles with dimples in the bottom are also
- thicker, but I assume this is just because they are better quality bottles.
- Empty wine bottles vary in weight considerably.
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- I had always thought that the dimple developed in wine bottles out of
- tradition, since the dimple serves a purpose in champagne bottles (riddling).
- Fancy wines were served in a fancy way (i.e., thumb-in-dimple), and that's
- why you tend to find better wines bottled in bottles with the dimple.
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- Scott
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