Bottle

A bottle is a narrow-necked container made of an impermeable material (such as glass, plastic or aluminium) in various shapes and sizes that stores and transports liquids.

Prior to this, wine used to be sold by the barrel (and before that, the amphora) and put into bottles only at the merchant's shop, if at all.

This left large and often abused opportunities for fraud and adulteration, as consumers had to trust the merchant as to the contents.

To avoid these problems, most fine wine is bottled at the place of production (including all port, since 1974).

Since children smashed the bottles to retrieve the marbles, they are relatively scarce and have become collector items; particularly in the UK.

A cobalt-coloured Codd bottle today fetches hundreds of British pounds at auction.

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