🏺 From Cask to Craft: The Story of the Wine Bottle 🍷

🕰️ First created in 1650, wine bottles were made from blackish-green glass — strong enough to transport wine and dark enough to protect it from light.

⚱️ These bottles soon replaced earthenware and stoneware jugs that once ferried wine from cask to table.

🖐️ Many early glass bottles mirrored pottery designs — some had handles and seals, earning them the title of serving or decanter bottles.

🔖 Glass seals — circular glass pads impressed with a metal stamp — were popular from the mid-17th century, often carrying:• 🍷 Name of the tavern• 🧾 Initials of merchant or drinker• 📅 Dated stamps (Earliest: 1657)

📉 Personal sealing declined after 1835 with mechanised branding taking over.

📐 Over the next 150 years, bottle shapes evolved:• Shaft-and-globe ➡️• Squat domes ➡️• Cylindrical shapes — which could now be stacked for aging (🍷 known as binning) and to keep corks moist for preservation.

🏭 Today, with a capacity of 200+ tonnes/day, Jagrat Glass manufactures:• 🧴 Flint & Super Flint bottles• 🟤 Amber bottles• 💚 Green bottlesFor the Alcobev industry across the globe.