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It’s all about carbon, emissions, and an effort to keep wine “green,” the industry publication SevenFifty Daily reported in its Jissue. While Carter and other high-end wine makers may see heavy bottles as a selling point, there’s a growing movement in the wine industry toward making bottles light and lean. We’re here to talk about wine bottles today. Then he came to Kentucky, where both his Kentucky Owl brand (later sold to Stoli Group USA) and Old Carter whiskey, also intentionally heavily oaked, quickly commanded trophy prices too. He got it, and that sent Carter Cellars wines into the popularity and price stratosphere. Working with respected wine maker Nils Venge, he sourced grapes from top Napa Vineyards to blend a rich, strong, double-oaked and barrel-aged Carter Cellars wine that he intentionally crafted to seek wine critic Robert Parker’s 100-point rating. “People expect it.” Carter, a native of Eureka, California and host of the highly regarded Carter House Inns there, told me that got into the wine business around 20 years ago. “You have to do that,” Carter said with a grin. The bottle was so heavy that I almost dropped it, and the punt was so deep that I almost lost my thumb in there. Mark Joseph Carter, the amiable wine maker turned bourbon maker who moved to Louisville recently to translate his success in the Napa vineyards to Kentucky’s native nectar, told me about that in a recent interview, when he handed me a bottle of his Carter Cellars 2019 Hossfeld Coliseum Napa Valley Red Blend. Sturdy bottles of Old Carter Bourbon and Carter Cellars wine Also, to be frank, some of the most ostentatious trophy wines use heavy bottles to show their, well, gravitas. Bottles this heavy are largely reserved for sparkling wines, which exert considerable pressure inside the bottle and need a sturdy container for safety. But bottles on the market vary from as light as 300 grams (about 10.6 ounces) to mearly a kilogram (well over two pounds!)Īt that hefty end of the scale, the bottle weighs substantially more than the wine it contains. The average empty 750-ml wine bottle (the modern metric version of the old-school fifth-gallon jug) weighs about 500 grams, a little under 18 ounces or a bit over one pound. There’s a surprisingly wide variation in size among the glass bottles that hold virtually all fine wines, setting aside those sold in bag-in-box format or, rarely, in cans. Click to learn more! /RobGīrowse the world’s ten best value wines on !

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