175 ml Bottles?

I believe Stout Billy's in Portsmouth, NH has had them, but I do not remember when I saw them if they were cork or twist, I think cork.

I can not imagine wasting a cork on a 175 ml bottle! Maybe it is just me. Then I tried 350 ml bottles and have pretty well stopped using them going back to the traditional 750. I found that I could decant a half a bottle into the smaller bottle and push the cork back in if I was not going to drink it all and it would keep for a couple of weeks okay. In fact I have one that I put back several months ago. I need test it to see if it has kept.

Ray

I can't cork a 175ml easy with my corker, so I have only a couple. I do like the 500ml bottles though. I bought about 10 cases a couple years ago and always bottle 4-6 bottles of this size from each batch of wine I make. The reds because my wife does not always join me for those and I usually drink just over a half bottle on my own and the whites for the same reason, although my wife consumes the bulk of those.

Gather some airline wine bottles. They're 187s and you're sure to never find a cork, except maybe first class!

I got the 8 that I have by buying them full of cheap wine (2 4-packs). This was in the wine section of a supermarket in Portland.

The wine in them was horrible so I poured most of it down the drain. I just wanted the bottles so that when I did experiments of splitting a single batch into several parts and using different yeasts or fining/filtering methods, I would have some small bottles to open when I eventually wanted to do tasting comparisons. In other words, so I wouldn't have to open 4 or 8 750ml bottles of wine when I wanted to satisfy my own curiosity by doing side-by-side comparisons.

Cheers, Richard

For smaller bottles, I opt for 12 oz beer bottles. They are readily obtained and a crown capper and caps are easy and inexpensive.

I get them buy the case from a local drinking establishment that sell wines in them... No oxidation/spillage problems and their customers seem to like them.

Later, A.J.