187ml bottles

Hello:

A local tavern has Sutter wines in 187ml bottles for it's patrons.

These cute little bottles have a screw top and I would like to locate a source for replacement tops. Or alternatively what size of cork might fit a neck with 16.85mm ID (0.664" ID)?

Any pointers where I might find this info would be appreciated or does anyone have experience with these bottles they could pass along?

TIA!

Steve Oregon

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spud
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Save the tops. Reuse them. Wrap some electrical or duct tape around the cap and neck and that should work. I used to buy jug wine in gallons, pour into 750ml bottles, stick a used cork in and wrap with tape. The wine kept just fine for the short time I stored it that way.

Bill Frazier Olathe, Kansas USA

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William Frazier

Forget trying to cork a screw-top bottle -- typically, the necks of screw-top bottles are made of *much* thinner glass than the necks of cork finish bottles, and won't stand up to the mechanical stresses of being corked. Not to mention, the necks are not straight on the inside, so a cork won't make a very good seal anyway, even if you can get it in there without busting the bottle.

Have you Googled for sources of screw closures? I'm sure they're not all that hard to find. If you can't find what you want from beer- and wine-making suppliers, you could try atkinsonmaple.com -- they sell supplies for bottling maple syrup, and I imagine some of their screw closures would fit your bottles.

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Doug Miller

I'm with Bill on this one. Just clean and reuse the original caps.

Tom S

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Tom S

Well I stuffed a couple of No. 9's in two of them and neither broke, but they came out prety hard.

Saved the screw caps, but not all of the bottles had one when I picked them up this am. I DAGS and haven't been sure that the replacement caps I've seen would work for these bottles.

Might try some 7's and some 8's, see if I can make them leak before I give up on corks.

Thank you,

Steve Oregon

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spud

Presque Isle sells 187 ml bottles that take a crown cap. I would reuse the old ones too. Joe

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Joe Sallustio

Steve, by all means get as many of them as you can with the caps and save the ones without for dire need (a No. 7 cork works on mine, which I believe were Sutter too). These are really handy sizes for a wine you know will need a lot of aging (root wines, for example -- beet, carrot, parsnip, etc.). After a year, open one of these. If it isn't ready (which it probably won't be if we are really talking about root wines), you've only opened a 187 ml bottle -- not a 750 ml one. At two years, open another. Very convenient.

Jack Keller, The Winemaking Home Page

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Jack Keller

Hello:

Thanks for the help and thougths folks. As always it's appreciated!

Steve Oregon

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spud

So basically you were buying bulk aging wine and then bottling it. That is something I had not thought of. Of course now I have so much bulk aging wine of my own I would not need to!

I use the small bottles (185 and 375) when I open a 750 and do not finish it. They work great.

Ray

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Ray Calvert

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