The Priorat bottle

For anyone normal, it probably isn’t readily apparent, but over the last five years, there’s been large-scale change as to how the wines of Priorat are presented in that the Burgundy/Rhône bottle has asserted itself as the main bottle of choice for the wines. To back up a little bit, wine bottles can and do come in a vast number of shapes. One of the wackiest is probably Travaglini in Piemonte but in general, the two mainstays are either Bordeaux, a more cylindrical bottle or then Burgundy/Rhône, that’s more teardrop […]