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From: mie@mtunh.UUCP (Marc Epstein)
Newsgroups: net.wines
Subject: Re: Wine bottle bottoms
Message-ID: <569@mtunh.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 20-Oct-86 19:32:12 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 20 19:32:12 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 22-Oct-86 03:13:21 EDT
References: <93@ritcv.UUCP> <46@unc.unc.UUCP>
Reply-To: mie@mtunh.UUCP (Marc Epstein)
Organization: AT&T ISL Middletown NJ USA
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Summary: Indented to withstand pressure

In article <46@unc.unc.UUCP> gauchs@unc.UUCP (Susan E. Gauch) writes:
>>My question: does the depth of the indentation (dish?)
>>on the bottom of a bottle of wine have anything to do with the 
>>quality of the wine therein?
>
>My understanding is that the punt (the indentation in the bottom of the
>bottle) is there to collect the sediment thrown by the wine as it ages.
> ...
>I don't know why Champagne bottles
>have such large punts, as they don't throw much sediment as a rule.
>-- 
>Susan Gauch
>gauchs@unc	decvax!mcnc!unc!gauchs

I believe Champage bottles have such large indentations in the bottom
so that the bottles can withstand the high pressure (eg. greater surface
area ...).

marc epstein
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