Why do some wine bottles have a gold netting around them?!

Question: I have noticed that some spanish and Italian wines have like a gold braiding that surrounds them... what is the reason or origins of this?

Thanks

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Answers: I have noticed that some spanish and Italian wines have like a gold braiding that surrounds them... what is the reason or origins of this?

Thanks

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Historically the netting was there to prevent unscrupulous people, maybe the staff in a big house, from removing the cork (with a butlers friend / ah-so), drinking the wine and then filling the bottle with a cheapo plonk without anyone being the wiser.

Only the better, more expensive wines had the metal cages.

Nowadays it is marketing -- giving the impression its a special expensive wine and making it differ from others on the shelf.

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Probably just a for decoration. On some Italian wines there is a serial numbered pink label of paper which is the DOCG label. Enjoy! {:-)

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Nothing more than ornamental or better still,
gimmick.

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so u can hang them up on hooks on the wall it gives you more space to put your empty glasses on the bar ?

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