Bottles that "Don't Play Well With Others"

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Lee Short

Lee Short
This really just means bottles that don't stack well into bins:

Many Germans
Most Muscadet
Most Champagne, and nearly all prestige cuvees
Most Saviennieres, Coteaux du Layon, etc.
Rene Leclerc
Huet, often

I'm sure I'll be able to expand this list as I start loading up the new shelves.

So what about you, dear reader: what bottles do you love to hate?
 
I just got a bunch of old Wirschings. Doesn't get worse than that.

Tall bottles go head to head pretty well in my fridge.
 
I have wood diamonds for racking, and the Burgundy shaped bottles and Vouvray get pretty slippy. Bordeaux shapes stack better. No problem with Germans, they stay in place if you keep them together.
 
No. 1 would be Franken wines in bocksbeutel.
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Some Provence bottles, like Domaine Sorin. Super wide bottoms.
 
Those bent bottles from Travaglini do not stack at all. And I imagine those NV half-melted bottles from CNP (I haven't purchased any, so I've forgotten the name of the producer. I do remember getting a headache trying to find a vintage on one)look like they'd be a pain also.
 
You already mentioned "German wines" but the basic Frankenweins are sold in Bocksbeutel, which is the fat flat bottle.

I like Frankenwein, it is mostly Sylvaner but it has a nice dry taste that German friends described as "scharf".

But it doesn't fit into any wine rack known to man...

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Pinot noir from almost anywhere. It's a frickin' worldwide plague.

Modern-styled Rhnes, authentic or New World knockoffs.

Paul Blanck & Fils.
 
Frankens
Alsatian magnums

Most Champagne with a special place in hell reserved for the Taittinger Compte de Champagne bottles

Lesser criminals include Rhone, Burgundy and Huet.

I'm told there are some expensive Californian wines that are problematic but since I've never bought one I can't speak from experience.
 
Many Italian fancy-schmancies: high-end Italian with the extremely long necks that won't fit into Bordeaux boxes (they just have to be different, don't they?

Also, the little clavelin's of vin jaune fame and Tokai bottles (375's, or 500's, but bulge-shaped)
 
Good lord, with all due respect, this thread is so eBob.

Of course, I'm blithely indifferent, because I don't have shelves or racks in my cellar. Everything's just, like, stacked.*

*Said solely to strike fear into the heart of B. Kane.
 
Those bottom-heavy Jean Foillard Morgon bottles are damn frustrating -- so close to being a "normal" burgundy shape but just fat enough and just odd enough to not fit nicely in any of the racks I have. They're a tease.
 
The next person who gifts me a bottle of Turley is going to get slugged with it. At least that way I won't have to store it until I give it away.

Molitor, Diel and Leitz have all gone to taller than normal German wine bottles for which I curse them when I go to the cellar. Lots of Austrians too.

Chidaine looks fine until it gets to the rack then...clank. It's just a wee bit too big.
 
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