A while back I wrote a recap of a project we worked on for Rodney Strong Vineyards (love their Cabernet, by the way) on their reverse tapered bottle line. The recap appeared in Practical Winery and Vineyard. Reverse tapered bottles are wider at the top than the bottom. Our Infinity accumulation tables helped them bottle [...]

I found these beautifully difficult to handle bottles in a box that my dad brought home from Germany years ago. Show these to any packaging machinery manufacturer and you will get an interesting reaction. The tapered sides make them difficult to handle because the shoulders touch before the base, causing the bottoms to kick out [...]