Don't know if it is still the case, but a good portion of the wine bottles for Napa Valley were made at the Owens-Illinois facility in Oakland. At least this was the case in the late '80s and early '90s when they were a major client of mine.
On 30/1/11 16.56 , M-gineering wrote:
> On 1/30/2011 8:44 PM, John Wood wrote:
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>> Unfortunately Robert, the actual glass bottle was probably made in
>> China.
>> (don't know this for a fact, just speculating, and would love to be
>> proven
>> wrong)
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> Glass bottles are low cost items, which are easily made in automated
> plants. Transporting them around the world is very expensive and
> increases the risk of contamination. I would expect them to be made in
> the proximity of the bottling plant
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Phil Sieg
Knoxville, Tennessee
USA