Bottle

A bottle is a narrow-necked container made of an impermeable material (clay, glass, plastic, aluminium etc.) in various shapes and sizes to store and transport liquids (water, milk, beer, wine, ink, cooking oil, medicine, soft drinks, shampoo, and chemicals, etc.) and whose mouth at the bottling line can be sealed with an internal stopper, an external bottle cap, a closure, or a conductive 'inner seal' using induction sealing.Some of the earliest bottles appeared in China, Phoenicia, Crete, and Rome.A PET bottleStone ware jar for carrying waterA bioplastic shampoo bottle made of PLA-blend bio-flexA contemporary metal bottle (Sigg)Chinese ding-ware porcelain bottle (far left) with iron-tinted pigment under a transparent colorless glaze, 11th century, Song DynastyNormflasche bottleReusable glass milk bottlesPontiled soda or beer 'blobtop' bottle, circa 1855Bocksbeutel bottleMetal Water Bottles.Two bottles for Maas wine, called 'thieves', 18th century, at the Gourmet Museum and Library, Hermalle-sous-Huy, BelgiumA bottle wall of an earthship bathroomBottle, 18th–19th-century Iran. Brooklyn Museum.1940s Chianti fiascoAluminium spray bottleEmpty beer bottles of different colorsTwo modern hot water bottles shown with their stoppersPlastic bottle of milk. One US gallon A bottle is a narrow-necked container made of an impermeable material (clay, glass, plastic, aluminium etc.) in various shapes and sizes to store and transport liquids (water, milk, beer, wine, ink, cooking oil, medicine, soft drinks, shampoo, and chemicals, etc.) and whose mouth at the bottling line can be sealed with an internal stopper, an external bottle cap, a closure, or a conductive 'inner seal' using induction sealing.Some of the earliest bottles appeared in China, Phoenicia, Crete, and Rome. First attested in 14th century. From the English word bottle derives from an Old French word boteille, from vulgar Latin butticula, from late Latin buttis ('cask'), a latinisation of the Greek βοῦττις (bouttis) ('vessel'). The glass bottle was an important development in the history of wine, because, when combined with a high-quality stopper such as a cork, it allowed long-term aging of wine. Glass has all the qualities required for long-term storage. It eventually gave rise to 'château bottling', the practice where an estate's wine is put in a bottle at the source, rather than by a merchant. 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 a large and often abused opportunity for fraud and adulteration, as the consumer had to trust the merchant as to the contents. It is thought that most wine consumed outside of wine-producing regions had been tampered with in some way. Also, not all merchants were careful to avoid oxidation or contamination while bottling, leading to large bottle variation. Particularly in the case of port, certain conscientious merchants' bottling of old ports fetch higher prices even today. To avoid these problems, most fine wine is bottled at the place of production (including all port, since 1974).