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1775

Year that wine was first put into individual cylindrical bottles. Before that time, most wine was sold directly from a cask. Customers brought a container to the winery or wine shop and simply filled their container directly from the barrel. The first wine to be commonly bottled was Port from the Douro region of Portugal.

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