Why Do Wine Bottles Have Dents in the Bottom?
BrainStuff
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🗓️ 9 March 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Short answer: No one is sure. But it may have once been practical during production, and the dents (a.k.a. punts) in wine bottles are certainly useful now. Learn more in this episode of BrainStuff, based on this article: https://recipes.howstuffworks.com/food-facts/wine-bottle-dent-bottom.htm
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| 1:40.8 | If you've ever picked up a wine bottle, you may have noticed a pretty distinctive feature, |
| 1:45.8 | a big dent in the bottom. The technical term for the dent is punt, and given that |
| 1:53.1 | wine making and bottling traditions go back centuries, or even millennia, |
| 1:57.5 | surely this dent has been there since time immemorial to serve some specific and scientific purpose. |
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