How to distinguish a Bordeaux bottle from a Burgundy bottle?

1. Bordeaux bottle
The Bordeaux bottle is named after the famous wine-producing region of France, Bordeaux. Wine bottles in the Bordeaux region are vertical on both sides, and the bottle is tall. When decanting, this shoulder design allows the sediments in the aged Bordeaux wine to be retained. Most Bordeaux wine collectors will prefer larger bottles, such as Magnum and Imperial, because larger bottles contain less oxygen than the wine has, allowing the wine to age more slowly and also easier to control. Bordeaux wines are usually blended with Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot. So if you see a bottle of wine in a Bordeaux bottle, you can roughly guess that the wine in it should be made from grape varieties such as Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot.

2. Burgundy bottle
Burgundy bottles have a lower shoulder and wider bottom, and are named after the Burgundy region in France. Burgundy wine bottle is the most common bottle type except for Bordeaux wine bottle. Because the bottle shoulder is relatively slanted, it is also called “sloping shoulder bottle”. Its height is about 31 cm and the capacity is 750 ml. The difference is stark, the Burgundy bottle looks fat, but the lines are soft, and the Burgundy region is famous for its top Pinot Noir and Chardonnay wines. Because of this, most of the Pinot Noir and Chardonnay wines produced in various parts of the world use Burgundy bottles.