Old wine bottle

A few months ago I started noticing "antique" wine bottles used for decoration in some of the many catalogs that appear daily in my mailbox. I loved the look but did not love the $75 and up price tag (they were not really antique either but made to look that way) and decided that a replica could be made and I started saving some wine bottles. If you have a wine lover on your Father's Day list these would be so great paired with some of his favorite wine or wine accessory. They are decorative…

Old wine Bottles from the Castello di Verrazzano winery (http://www.verrazzano.com/en/), 26Km outside Florence.

Wine bottles, shapes and sizes over time.

Old old wine

old wine bottles

The bottles closest to the time period are from 1741 and 1753.

very smooth!!!

My six ideas on recycling wine bottles.

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The Amontillado wine.

As I left the house this morning, I nearly tripped over a glass bottle on my front porch. I didn't give it much thought and was about to toss it in the recycle bin when I noticed it had a piece of paper in it. I fished out the paper and unrolled it to reveal its single word message: Pirates After reading Shezcrafti's awesome entry in this week's League of Extraordinary Bloggers assignment, it gave me the idea for my own post. I wasn't quite sure where I'd be going with this post until then…

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