shape of bottles?

[n144mann]

Well Deb, I really can not offer you any ideas into the thinking at of the people at Gallo, but from a retailers standpoint, the funky bottle shapes are a pain for us also. They simply do not fit on the shelves easily or compactly. But, from a retailers alternate viewpoint....many many people love the unique shapes and will buy a wine to try for the first time simply because of the shape of the bottle or the look of the label. While I discourage this practice whenever I can, it is still a good marketing idea for the wineries, and so I understand why they do it.

What I am wondering is why the Chardonnay bottles need to be getting fatter and fatter?? Has anyone else noticed this trend?? It seems to me that the higher end ones are especially guilty of this, as are some of the New Zealand and Aussie Chards and even some of the NZ SB's...Kim Crawford is one of them ( tho I like the wine so it is worth keeping in stock, as are many of the others )....but, they do not fit securely into our laydown racks,which are wooden and we have no way of adjusting them to different widths. They are only about 4 years old, and fit all the bottles easily at that time, but not the newer rounder-wider ones. Some of the new bottles do not fit at all....really a pain!!!!

Hey Rick....maybe I should suggest we get new racks to accomodate these wide bottles...grin Start that renovation idea out right!! [img]http://www.wines.com/ubb2/wink.gif[/img]

Nancy

[This message has been edited by n144mann (edited 12-01-1999).]