Wine in a fish shaped bottle

Villa Dante Boscato Rosso

I just love a gimmick. Especially when it comes to wine – for years (and to be honest still now) I used to choose wine solely on how cool, weird, stupid the label was. I used to drink some pretty average wine from Italy a lot just because it had a picture that looked like The Godfather on the label (and it wasn’t from Ford Coppola’s winery!).

So when I saw a fish shaped bottle in the off license near my office, I just had to buy it. Although it was nearly topped by an Australian wine called Wally’s Hut – gonna get that next week I think.

It’s from Villa Dante winery in Tuscany, and inevitably (a gimmicky bottle kind of implies a not so good wine), it wasn’t a good wine.
I reviewed it here:
Boscato Rosso from Villa Dante but it’s one to avoid I’m afraid.

Another fish shaped bottle I found

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5 Comments »

1. Over the years we have bought many bottles of wine
   because of the unique bottle. Seems always a gimmick
   to unload bad wine, but at least you end up with a conversation piece.

   Comment by Joe (joeshico) — May 30, 2009 @ 2:04 pm

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   Comment by LnddMiles — July 22, 2009 @ 4:42 am

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5. There are fish shaped bottles in PEI from a local winery and I have been fusing them in my glass kiln and making them into cheeseplates and bowls. They are beautiful and keep their detail thru the fusing process. See my etsy site Sherware, for more info:

   http://www.etsy.com/your_shop.php?edit=1&rand=1849188229

   Comment by Sherri — December 14, 2009 @ 9:05 am

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