Below (on the left) are  bottles used for red and white Burgundy wines; these are slope-shouldered green bottles.  Red wine bottles are usually dark green; white wine sometimes is in a more olive-colored glass, or a clear one..
     
                                                                                      On the right--classic German bottles.  The brown is always from the Rhine region, and the blue was for many years characteristic of the Mosel region (Western Germany).. Recently, there has been a shift to green for Mosel wines, but the shapes are the same. These are taller bottles, so they require a taller carton too.
         
This is a "split" or smaller bottle containing 375 ml.            This is a Bocksbeutel, reserved in Germany for Franconia wine.
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For comparison; note the height of the Rhine bottle.  I missed getting pictures of all others we showed, but several are on the handout and we will be encountering more of those discussed and pictured in the article as the class progresses.
The picture above to the right is of John showing an oak stave from an oak barrel, and he had scraped off some of the wood to reveal the oak -- as well as passing around baggies of shavings in discussing the use of wood chips and various means of "oaking" explained in the article which occurs to wine other than just aging in Oak barrels.

The next picture below is a demo of the punt (indentation in the bottom of some wine bottles).   Some waiters will use the punt to hold the bottle to serve wine so as not to heat up the wine in the bottle by grabbing it.  What is a punt, you ask?
The term relates back to historical glass-blowing techniques, and the word derives from Latin and Spanish terms.  Consult the following link for a nice discussion of the history and meaning in a lot more detail.
http://www.virtual-ink.com.au/afw-faq/faq001.htm
                                         

                             What about this form of "bottle"?  The famous "boxed wine" concept, below.
                
But, on to other issues...that of cardboard containers for packaging the wine and the wine bottles. Cartons for shipping are now manufactured by some glass companies:
                                 
                    
                     Which one grabs you?  Often boxes are used for marketing the product in bigger stores.
    
Numerous articles associated with wine can be found in gift shops in wineries.  Here a speciality box manufactured in Yakima to hold 6 bottles of wine...a collector's item no doubt.  Sagelands is the new name of this winery, previously called Staton Hills, which we will be visiting on our field trip.  It is now owned by the Chalone group.

Other paraphernalia associated with the industry include clothing, with a wine-grape theme::
                                            

But to continue with the class regional geography content, let's visit a discussion of  Cork in Portugal.  Continuing here are the few slides used in a PowerPoint to introduce the topic which was further explained in a video obtained by Elaine Glenn's parents, who live in Portugal,  particularly for our use in this class.
                  
                                       
            
Cork Oak trees populate much of Portugal and are being protected by the government.  A cork oak tree is not productive till it's about 25-30 years old and then the bark with cork can be stripped about every nine years.  Wine corks are not made until the third stripping of the tree.
 

   So that ended the PowerPoint intro, and we went on to to class hands-on demos with the different types of cork, natural and artificial.  John showed a champagne cork and passed around composite ones.  Andrew takes a closer look at one of the natural corks, and below others check them out.
    
                                 Students study corks below and synthetic ones (the colored ones).
                    
We passed around a number of different types of oak corks and some artificial ones as well.  And, we displayed numerous written brochures and books involved in the wine trade.  Class began with a neat video of Gina Gallo, a granddaughter of Julio Gallo, and she is the winemaker for up-class wines from Gallo of Sonoma (one of which we are tasting Wednesday night).  And, we ended class with a number of handouts, particularly one of details about the all-day field trip to the Yakima valley this Thursday.   Please visit the web pages about the trip and be on time at the parking lot (free campus parking), at 18th street and D street.  Bring your lunch, good walking shoes, a sun hat, sunglasses, and something to drink.  This is going to be one of the hottest days of the summer near 100.  Bring a sleeved shirt for the cool barrel rooms of Sagelands.